Blog 3 - Lankshear & Knobel

Lankshear & Knobel was a very mind opening article. I learned a lot about old and new ways of thinking when it comes to the internet, during the class discussion. I discovered that there are two types of languages we aquire throughout our life, which are primary and secondary. Primary language is what we learn as children. It is our bottom line assumption and it serves as our norm or default. Secondary language is group recruited.

We also discussed new literacies, which involve "technical stuff," and "ethos stuff." The main discussion throughout the class and of the article was the differences between two mindsets, which are the physical-industrial mindset and the cyberspatial-postindustrial mindset. The first mindset believes that things become more valuable when there is less of them, people are judged as individuals, and space is created for a specific purpose. The second minset believes that things become more valuable as they grow, people work and are judged in groups, and space can be used for many different purposes.

I enjoyed the discussion in class about how older generations react to the internet. They tend to be very specific when it comes to learning things and create step by step lists to help them understand. Today's generation seems to be more open and allows new ways of looking at things and accomplishing tasks.

I am very curious to see how the internet will grow in the future and what changes will be made. I wonder if the internet will start charging to view websites and if other countries will break away from our internet base. There are many possibilities to come in the future.