Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 15:10
From: Fran
Subject: This weeks reading
I think that the computer has a long way to go before it reaches some of the heights that Lanham claims it is already capable of achieving. He writes that electronic textbooks are democratizing education. But he forgets one oh so important point, computers are expensive. Many classrooms across the country have a hard time supplying pens and paper for their students, much less computers. Electronic textbooks are democratizing education for those that already are involved in and benefiting from our democratic system. What about those that are not?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:52
From: Frank
Subject: closed poetics/open rhetoric
I agree with Fran--I kept writing little dollar signs in the margin of my book. Who is going to pay for all this technology in the schools? I can see it now (partly because it is already happening) --the kids in Beverely Hills and Greenwich, CT with lots of CD-Roms, hypertext programs, copmuter training, etc., and the kids in Anacostia with two Mac Classics for the shole school (I now know how bad these are because I have one).
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 21:32
From: Krissi
Subject: Re: This weeks reading
Many people have "made it out West" already and have staked their claim, built their homes, and established their businesses while others don't even OWN a horse. This disparity exists on the level of the distribution of hardware as well as practice in the field with the rhetorical strageties that prove lucrative.
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