The Future of Literacy: Will Orality and Auto Correction Replace the Knowledgeable Handling of the Written Word?

• In Event: 63.016 - Innovations in Learning - Issues for Worldwide Research (WERA@10)

Abstract

Traditionally, literacy is regarded as the key to self-determined and responsible participation in a society. But in view of technological developments: Is individual ability to produce and understand texts of any kind still necessary - or in other words: how much "traditional" literacy is necessary for being "literate" in a technology-driven world?

Author

• Ingrid Gogolin, Universität Hamburg