christa.rhet

Below is a collection of everyone’s reflections from our work with Haas [chapters 1 +2]

• “writing is language made material” (p. 3)
• “writing is a technology” (p. 6)
• materiality=space, time
• “culture and cognition mutually construct one another” (p. 13)
• symbol systems and meditational means (a la Vygotsky—p. 14)
• “Practice ties together thinking and acting human beings with their cultural, material, political contexts and is therefore a way to integrate agent, action, and world…the notion of practice is useful because when literacy is examined in practice, it is seen as intrinsically tied to technology—to tools, implements, and artifacts. A practice account of literacy acknowledges these material tools and technologies; in fact, it would see them as central. But—again as a counter to technological determinism—a practice account would also posit technology as only one of a complex factors that impinge on thinking and doing in context” (p. 19).
• Lave: “everyday activities” (p. 20)
• Myths about technology:

o   transparency (34)
o   all-powerful (35)
o   instrumental only (21)