Baron Responset

• "Before you read" 
• pencil
• blogs
• computer
• sources (online, books, articles, journals)
• microsoft word
• Summary
• In Baron's article "Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies" he talks about how the pencil has been replaced by the leaps and bounds of technology in society. He touches base on how the pencil was first created and how it evolved into what it is today. He also talks about how technology is used and almost feared when it first comes out. The unknown power of new technology instills an uncertainty in most people who are hesitant to buy into the fad. In more modern times since this article was written ( a 13 year gap) we realize now that people line up days before a product is released to be the first to have it. We find this connection to the past difficult after people would not buy products until they were certain that they would be needed. Now we buy products because they are new. 
• Synthesis 
• I would say that Baron's article is similar to the articles of Allen and LaMott. Baron's article ties to Allen and LaMott's for the same reason, process and evolution of writing. Allen and LaMott both talk about how the writing process takes time and changes and growns, LaMott talks about having multiple drafts and expansion. Baron's article talks about how technology not only changes and evolves itself, but also the writing process and the way we write. 
• Dialectical notebook 

• This quote makes me realize that computers are a common way that children learn now a days. Many schools not only use them to teach but also there are programs that teach children to read and also other tasks.	"The computer is also touted as a gateway to literacy." page 423
  Anyone can post anything on the internet whether it be true or not. There is a commercial where the girl says she met a guy on the internet who claims he is a "french model" and she believes it even though he knows no french and is unattractive.	"One of the greatest concerns about computer communications today involves their authentication and their potential for fraud." page 425
  Without the pencil being invented would we have the same written language we do today? The question, and many like it go unanswered because the invention and evolution of writing created literacy.	"The development of the pencil is also a paradigm of the development of literacy." page 426
  Writing was not the same as it was for cave people as it is for our generation. They did it to tell stories and record events, now a days it is used as many more things like communication and education as well as story telling and event records.	"We normally assume that writing was invented to transcribe speech, but that is not strictly correct." page 427
  Like all new things, people fear change. That is why when different things come about it is almost shunned before it is accepted.	"Just like the telegraph and the computer, writing was once an innovation strongly resisted by traditionalists because it was unnatural and untrustworthy." page 426

• QD 1
• The Uni bomber was an individual who would mail homemade bombs to different writers and computer literate people and harm them for fear of computer and writing spreading. He was finally caught and created tons of turmoil in the american public's mind and in the news. 
• Your thoughts
• This article made me think a lot about how our lives are effected by technology anymore. Its odd to think that pencils and writing can be grouped into "technology" but just like an electronic, it evolved and took hold in peoples lives as an every day thing. I think that the article is very accurate other than its almost 15 years old, and our technology acceptance has grown since when the first computers and other types of technology began emerging.