I Entry: Feb. 15

With the grand transition from archaic methods of information to the age of computers and novels that can fit in a small device in your pocket, it is no doubt that being literate is losing its past meaning and adopting an adapted one for today’s standards. Computer literacy’s necessity is evident to modern culture simply by looking at the educational establishments lowering the number of new books purchased and increasing spending on better, faster, and more effective programs, software and computers. Teachers as well as students are being asked more today than ever to be aware of how to use computers in order to gather information quickly and transfer it into their own work, be it classroom lectures or research papers.  It is no doubt that the ability to read will never be a skill that may be overlooked, even if it can eventually be downloaded straight to our brains. However, the amount of reading that people are doing in today’s fast-paced world is noticeably changing with the transition from paper to memory bits. Wit this transition, the encouragement to not fully read text is more and more apparent with the computer search feature, allowing students to quickly find necessary information for school projects and research papers without whipping out a fact-filled encyclopedia or truly covering an entire work of literature. The ability to use websites such as SparkNotes.com and Wikipedia.org are almost necessary to today’s generation in order to access information quickly, regardless of how much quality or knowledge it may possess and share with the student. Although our parents and elders may complain of how they didn’t have things so easy, it is no doubt that student’s are well aware of the computer literacy they have the ability to possess and use at their disposal to turn a long research paper into an overnight assignment.

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