The+Wild+Mongooses

**Phonological Awareness**
-Can think about linguistic structure of spoken language. -Can realize writing is a model for speech and not an exact science. -How does this affect consciousness? -Is there a relationship between writing development and phonological awareness? Do we need phonological awareness to become better readers and writers or does phonological awareness develop only after we've mastered reading and writing?
 * Definition:** Awareness that sounds (phonemes) make up words and ability to manipulate individual phonemes.
 * Importance:** Can separate writing from its context.
 * (And why are these realizations important?)**
 * Questions:** How does this affect cognition and learning?
 * Complications:** Does separating writing from its context help us or harm us? (**not sure what is this about -- write more -- )**

Sneha Roy

(MarcGhiselli) Tool= makes tasks easier,either physically or mentally;used in different ways, and/or changing old ways of their use(technology).

Importance= writing itself illustrates stages of technological spread;cultures are continuously changing;writing was not designed to record speech/pencil was not invented to write

connected to technology= new ways of writing,new ways of communicating,new ways of the old ways.
 * Kurt Wooden addition:** According to Frankel, peripheral literacies are literacies that involve new technologies. The term "peripheral" is inappropriate though, as it implies that new literacies are not as important as already established literacies which is incorrect. Writing was once a new literacy and by Frankel's terminology a "peripheral" literacy, and now it is what we intuit from Frankel's article as being the center of literacy practices. Situated Learning comes to mind: I imagine that we could situate these new literacies in with the old literacies just so long as we treat them as fully fledged members of Frankel's literacy club. Tools are the stepping stones into these new literacies while simultaneously being the new literacies themselves. Computers and Web 2.0 are good examples of a situation where the tool is also the literacy and vice versa.

Questions= what happens when technology fails?;are people going to resort to the old ways?

Complications= dramatic changes within the past 50+ years; the future.

Rod Hayes DEFINITION-Walter Ong refers to rhetoric as “socially effective discourse” as opposed to the “thought structure of discourse” i.e. logic. Rhetoric is the tools that make language effective on an oral level, and the elimination of rhetoric is what Ong argues makes Literacy superior. Example: Ong argues computers eliminate the “rhetoric” from language and that it becomes a tool of logic. **( add to this -- do you believe Ong)** I think it's pretty hard to agree with him. I can read things on the internet and still gauge  whether it will be socially effective or not. Just because something is distributed digitally it is not suddenly stripped of the ability to be interpreted.
 * RHETORIC**

IMPORTANCE- When writing is seen as a technology, it isn't rhetoric that is important, but the power of writing to eliminate it.

QUESTIONS- If rhetoric is such a plight, why do we put so much weight on political speeches? Furthermore, is writing never socially effective? **(expand)** Isn't whatever power speech adds to a piece of text replaced by other things when the delivery method is changed?

COMPLICATIONS- Rhetoric is a term with so many varied definitions. Why doesn't Ong use a word that can be more easily **distinguised? (what is this word that I have bolded?)** The ability to be understood. Distinguished. Sorry.