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The Great Debate at OLA SuperConference
OK. I lost. It was close. But I lost the debate. Congrats to John Miedema my worthy opponent. The audience was wonderful; thanks to all who came. It was crazy and fun and worth doing again sometime....
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Post Literacy Talk at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery
MR @ RMG. Photo: Stephanie Foden My talk and discussion about post literacy (the future of literacy) at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG) in Oshawa. My thanks to Will McGuirk and Sally Grande for...
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Pre Post Literate Thank You Gifts
I speak about post-literacy (the end of literacy) at various conferences or as part of courses. So what do people give me in thanks? Books of course. Here are two of my favourites. This came from the...
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How to Write (Advice from David Ogilvy)
I’m doing a lot of writing these days so I was taken by this recent post in Shaun Usher’s Lists of Note blog: How to Write. On September 7th of 1982, advertising legend David Ogilvy sent an internal...
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Beyond Literacy: What I’ve Been Up To …
I’m terrified. In the best way possible…. For some time I’ve been working on a project about the idea of “post-literacy.” It’s a positive, upbeat, and enthusiastic exploration of the end of literacy...
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Literacy and Poverty: How Tragic
While I do think and write about the demise of literacy (see Beyond Literacy), I always insist that exploring post-literacy is a visceral way to emphasize the extraordinary power of literacy. I may...
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Scarey – Just Like It Should Be
“Talk like you are speaking to your best friend.” I’ve been teaching variations of a course called Beyond Literacy for a number of years (both to first year undergrads and sophisticated graduate...
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Beyond Literacy Radio
Just when you thought it was safe to go out into the literate world again …. Following from the success of Beyond Literacy (the “book-like-thing”), I’m pleased to announce Beyond Literacy Radio! Once...
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Beyond Literacy: A Class, An Event, A Conversation
Every time I teach the Beyond Literacy course (a First Year Seminar at Guelph) I am wonderfully delighted by the students. Frankly very few of them ever buy the premise of the course (“Reading and...
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Social Media, AI, and Those Pesky Humans
Sometimes it just falls into your lap…. As some will know, I’m fascinated by artificial intelligence (AI), especially how it relates to literacy and our notion of being literate. So, when I read about...
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Books and Screens and the Reading Brain
Last week I participated in the Books and Screens and the Reading Brain conference held at Vilnius University in Lithuania. The lead organizer was the EU COST action E-READ network and it drew...
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