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13 SES 11, Educational Cost-Benefit Analysis, Digital Literacy
Long Paper Session
Contribution
In this paper I investigate the possibility that the proliferation of digital media has substantial consequences for the world of education, and more precisely that it might alter the very meaning of what we usually understand under ‘education’. I elaborate the thesis defended by Postman regarding the disappearance of childhood (and of the school) in an age in which screens have become the dominant cultural medium, albeit in a far more techno-centric way than Postman does himself. My analysis focuses on concrete school practices, and more precisely on the initiation into literacy. By means of a detailed comparison with older forms of literacy-training, as well as with non-alphabetic forms (Japanese), I argue that the way in which we traditionally come to master the written word has two distinctive traits, which are absent when education becomes digitally mediated. This will permit me to draw conclusions regarding the differences between text-based and screen-based literacy – and regarding the future of education.
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