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  1. Apr 2019
    1. In Digital Nation, we continually confront bodies that are active rather than passive with respect to literacy.

      Does inability to teach active bodies indicate a fault in the student or the system?

    1. literacy becomes a tool for ordering and arranging people, particularly with respect to class.

      The critical-cultural theorist would take issue with this

    1. distraction

      What is the "scope" of distraction? Presumably it is most direct in the classroom when it prevents attention to the instructor, but what about work outside of class? What about in interactions with others? General mindfulness and attentiveness in life?

    2. distance between its subject and its viewer,

      The way "distance" works is interesting. On one hand, technology enables communication over great physical distances, yet it can also make a relatively short distance appear long. In a way, for better or worse, it unifies the experience based on distance (assuming one has an adequate internet connection).