Baron Responses #12

Summary
In his article "From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies", Dennis Baron attempts to tell his readers that It is not just computers that are to be considered writing technologies, but that even the simplest things like a pencil are as well. He argues this because when the pencil, typewriter, and the telegraph were invented they also changed the way that people viewed writing in the past, just like computers have changed our views on writing today.

Synthesis
This article relates to the three readings that we read recently about literacy and its "sponsors", as Brandt would say. This relates because the writing technologies described in this article because the way that Baron talks about the writing technologies reminded me of the sponsors of literacy in the Brandt article and how in relation this article describes how the different technologies are the "sponsors" of writing.

Pre-Reading
2. Some technologies that I use for writing are computers, notebooks, pencils and pens. While the computer is certainly more advanced than the others, they all count as technology because they are all serve as a means for me to express something in words.

QD#2
Yes, I do believe that this seems to be one of his messages, and I do agree with the fact that yes, It may be hard to imagine new technologies that change the nature of writing, but it certainly is happening, we see it all around us. Fifty years ago, people would have never imagined typing words that could be seen on a lit up screen, but today, a lot of times you see that happening more than you would see someone writing on paper.

My thoughts
I actually did not mind reading this article, I found it rather interesting. I had never stopped to think about how much the technology that goes into writing has changed over the years, and I also never knew how complicated making a simple thing like a pencil is, so i found it pretty interesting to read about.