In terms of “ethos,” the ontology of practices like blogging, writing fanfiction and collaborating in Wikipedia celebrate free support and advice, building the practice, collective benefit, co-operation before competition, everyone a winner rather than a zero-sum game, and transparent rules and procedures.
Students will love to collaborate and work together online. Very interesting!!
Ideas of “meaningful content” can be wider or narrower, looser or tighter, depending on how close one stays to “literality,” and to text as “self-contained.”
This article is full of great new vocabulary words related to literacy.
By “socially recognized ways” I mean something close to the concept of “practice” as it was developed by Scribner and Cole (1981) in relation to literacy.
I did not know this was related to literacy.
Clay became the preferred medium for recording bureaucratic items as it was abundant, cheap, and durable in comparison to other mediums. Initially, a reed or stick was used to draw pictographs and abstract signs into moistened clay.
Imagine to have take notes on clay today! I could imagine that is very messy.
It covered approximately 250 hectares, or .96 square miles, and has been called “the first city in world history.”
Wow, this is very interesting. New information for me.
This new way of interpreting signs is called the rebus principle. Only a few examples of its use exist in the earliest stages of cuneiform from between 3200 and 3000 B.C.
It would a great way to get children interested in writing. Showing them the first stages of writing in 3000 B.C.