Background & Resources
New literacies change as technology
opens up new doors for information and communication. As more students use
these technologies, the ways in which we read and write are transformed;
impacting classroom instruction. http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=leu/Electronic texts provide many challenges as well as supports for the educational community. Coiro (2003) stated that "the Internet, in particular, provides new text formats, new purposes for reading, and new ways to interact with information that can confuse and overwhelm people taught to extract meaning from only conventional print."
http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/RT/2-03_column/index.html
When using technology in education,
ensure you don't make one or more of the top ten "technoblunders"
listed in this article.http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=wepner2/index.html
10) Assuming equipment will work
9) Assuming help is coming
8) Taking support for granted
7) Believing software publishers
6) Using inappropriate web sites
5) Setting Inappropriate Assignments
4) Not allowing time to prepare
3) Overestimating students' skills
2) Misjudging the challenges
1) HAVING NO PLAN B...OR C OR D...
Questioning the changes from
Poststructuralist and Critical Theory perspective...Foucault said that the
"frontiers of a book are never clear-cut," because "it is
caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other
sentences: it is a node within a network...a network of references."
This phenomenon becomes even more of an issue with the addition of the
Internet and Hypermedia.Landow (1992) in "Hypertextual Derrida, Poststructuralist Nelson?" said that the paradigm shift in the writings of Derrida and Barthes (cultural theory), Nelson and van Dam (literary theory) had begun to take place. All four argued that we must switch our "conceptual systems founded upon ideas of center, margin, hierarchy, and linearity and replace them by ones of multilinearity, nodes, links and networks." (Landow, 1992)
http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/
The Paradigm Shift can be defined in
terms of:Technological Literacy http://www.ed.gov/updates/PresEDPlan/part11.html
Visual Literacy
http://www.ivla.org/organization/whatis.htm
Digital Literacy
http://www2.edc.org/CCT/cctweb/feature/art5.html
Hypermedia is an extension of
hypertext. Interactive fiction can be perceived as "books without
pages" or "commingled bits" of information as indicated in
this site that uses a metaphor of hypermedia as a "collection of
elastic messages that can stretch and shrink in accordance with the
reader's actions." The author also used a paper equivalent metaphor
of an Advent Calendar. "But when you open the little electronic
(versus paper) doors, you may see a different story line depending on the
situation, or like barbershop mirrors, an image within an image within an
image."http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/ch05c01.htm
Montfort (2002) defined Interactive
Fiction as containing the following attributes:-"a potential narrative, that is, a system which produces narrative during interaction;
-a simulation of an environment or world; and
-a structure of rules within which an outcome is sought, also known as a game."
http://nickm.com/if/toward.html
In addition, Denise added that "interactive" refers to the requirement of judgement-based action by the learner. Debbie thinks that to be interactive, a story must inspire the curiosity of the students and lead them down a path of independent, inquiry-based learning.
Beware of the Eliza effect...don't
overestimate the abilities of the program.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
For more on Eliza, see this site:
http://www.jesperjuul.dk/thesis/7-conclusions.html
You can find the seven principles of
interactive character-based story on this site:http://www.computer.org/intelligent/ex1998/pdf/x6012.pdf
Now,
get ready to slip into the rabbit hole...spiraling into an interactive
Wonderland.