Literacy is a common word in which many people take the assumed connotative meaning for, but in Connecting the Dots by Barbra Jones-Kavalier, the meaning of literacy is more fully explored as technology is steadily develops.
Prior to the 21st century, literacy defined a persons ability to read and write text; today this thought has completely expanded into the digital world. Kavalier brings up an interesting metaphor about how digital literacy is a game of connecting the dots, but each dot is connected to others with just as much multidimensional complexities as the starting dot. Due to the technological advances, literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media such as text, sound, and images while still being able to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation. This definition seems pretty hefty, but now that technology (mainly computers) is the key to communication, this definition fully applies.
The generation of young teens is known as the E-Generation because these new technologies such as overhead projectors or electronic streaming screens are aiding in digital literacy. The argument that is brought up from this point is the fact that the generation doing the teaching has to catch up in order to learn the digital literacy gadgets needed to aid the younger generation in digital learning. The argument is directed at the reader of this article, because Kavaliers purpose is just to inform the reader of this digital literacy issue.
Digital literacy is a term that will become more and more spoken of as it aids the current and upcoming generations to learn, and the rhetorical context of this article is for one to become in touch and informed on this issue of digital literacy. The world is connected on a more technological, metaphysical reality today; hence, becoming digitally literate is almost a must.
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