I DON'T LIKE CONFRONTATION.

Social dilemma? Confrontation.  Facebook is a breeding ground for passive-aggressive remarks, and it's only gotten easier and easier to make yourself more aggressive and more hurtful to others without having to be held truly responsible.

Make a mean status? Who cares, it's just Facebook.  Tweet something cruel? Doesn't matter. It's just online.

And There They Go...

I feel like the title of the book reflects the position we're in, as a society, when it comes to technology.  The "whole world" seems to be following along with what's being said and done, as long as it's either moving us forward or keeping us up.

By relying so heavily on the behaviors that "everybody" is engaging in, we're changing our own a little at a time.  We're becoming a society that bases all of our actions and reactions on the initiated thoughts and feelings of our laptops.

Let's Get Critical, Critical!

Technological literacy isn't something that we'll need to define one more time. We know that it's essentially revolving around knowing what you're doing, and knowing why you need to do it.

Critical technological literacy is a different matter entirely.  Even the addition of the new word brings us to a new understanding of what it truly means in this context.  It has become urgent, even demanded, that we bring this into the mainstream ideas about what is required to be a functional person in our society today.

It goes from being commonly considered unnecessary to be demanded as a life skill.

I HATE IRONING AND EVERYTHING RELATED TO IRONING BECAUSE IT IS STUPID.

This fine lady is June Cleaver.

This is another fine lady who's just too damned excited to be ironing.

This is me. Do you see my face? Do you see how I don't look excited? Do you see how I'm not wearing pearls?

That's because I fricking hate ironing. In fact, I hate ironing the way that most people hate the BMV. Michael looks disgruntled as well, but that's neither here nor there. He just likes to make that face.

In reality, the reason that I hate ironing is that I'm not good at it. So not good at it, in fact, that I had to look up a YouTube video to help my shit out. It didn't help, but it did bring technology into my daily life, because fifty years ago I'd have just had to beg my elderly neighbors to teach me their ways while they bitched about the Reds that'd just moved in across the street. Anyway, the point is it's blog worthy. Because technology.

The video I watched is included Down There, at the bottom of this post. Since you've already read this far, I'm assuming you can probably see it anyway, which renders this explanation pretty pointless. Oh well.

Do You Want Fries with That?

I feel like the ways that you can use technology in businesses are nearly infinite.  I'm a Creative Writing major, and essentially all of the writing and publishing process is done on computers in one way or another.

On a broader scale, even the printers and machinery used in the more solid, tangible side of publishing are still technology. Even if we tend to forget.

That Mustache Was a Thing of Beauty

Facial hair revelations aside, I think it's safe to say that anybody who's currently involved in education knows that the nice men on the YouTube were right.

Whether you're in a teaching position, or that of a student, you know that the idea of all things technological stemming back to a computer and knowing how to print, write a word document, etc. without any real consideration for the idea of "literacy" from a technological perspective.  We're taught the bare-boned necessities, without any added bonuses or extensive thought.

Instead of knowing the reasons why things work, or really even the reasons why we do them, we're expected to know the how.