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Time Magazine POTY, 1982/2006

January 15th, 2007 · Comments Off

I’m struck by this quotation in the 1982 Person of the Year article: ” As both the Apple Computer advertisement and the Las Vegas circus indicate, the enduring American love affairs with the automobile and the television set are now being transformed into a giddy passion for the personal computer.” […]

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Tags: literacy history · class readings · Uncategorized

Krause

January 11th, 2007 · Comments Off

“Among the Greatest Benefactors of mankind”: What the success of Chalkbaords Tells us about the Future of Computers in the Classroom. The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 33, No. 2, Computers and the Future of the Humanities (Spring, […]

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Tags: literacy history · writing technologies