The New Literacy and the Machines Are Us Blog

Clive Thompson’s new literacy asked the question, is technology is making us bad writers. I would have to agree with this statement because we are so used to the helpful tools like spell check and grammar check on Microsoft word and other applications like that. We get so lazy when we are handwriting a letter or a piece of writing because we are so used to technology doing it for us. This could make us get lower grade at school. For example; we just came back to school and we could probably write better when we were at the end of eighth grade then we can now. I believe this because over the summer people texted and emailed a gigantic amount. In most cases when you are texting or writing an email you don’t think about using grammar and we say thins like “R u sk8ng 2marow.” So when we come back to school we are not used to writing correctly and formally. Another thing that shocked me was when the author said “the fact that students today almost always write for an audience gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing.” When I thought about that I saw that it was true. When you write for an audience its different then when you’re just writing to be writing. In my opinion when you’re writing for nothing its better work then when you’re writing for an audience.
The machines are us/using us is about how technology is advancing so much. We can link to any where with one click. One thing that struck me is how it said you have to think about copyright, family and other things. And when we write things we really do have to think about some of those things. Also you can make a web page by literally just typing in a few things I think it is just like the other article because it is pretty much saying, technology is doing all the work for us. I agree with both of these statements about these articles.