Week 7 Slides
Critical Computational Literacies
Dr. Chris Proctor
LAI 686, Spring 2022
Week 7: March 15, 2022
diSessa
- social importance of literacy
- literacy is infrastructural
- material intelligence
Computers can be the technical foundation of a new and dramatically enhanced literacy, which will act in many ways like current literacy and which will have penetration and depth of influence comparable to what we have already experienced in coming to achieve a mass, text- based literacy (p. 4).
Three pillars of literacy
- material
- cognitive
- social
The fact is that calculus has become absolutely infra- structural in the educational process of scientists, engineers, and a broad range of other technical professions (p. 10).
- galileo and descartes
Holland
- views of self and identity
- universalist/culturalist
- critiques
- practice theory of self
Sociohistorical view of self
- semiotic mediation
- Vygotsky, Bakhtin
- activity