Natalie's Reading Respons 3

In my in class essay, I focused on Clive Thompson’s “A New Literacy” and how students writing is improving because of technology. Technology has made students’ lives easier academically and socially. Because of this, students are writing more than any generation before them. In Sven Birkerts’s “The Owl Has Flown,” he says “he has a window on the whole world, is positioned, no matter how poor or well-to-to, to receive virtually the same infinite stream of date as every other viewer” (3). This is another point I had not thought of. He is commenting on television, but has the same idea. Everyone has the same right to all the information on the internet. Humans have insight, or a window, into a different world; anyone can see into this window. Birkert’s statement adds to my central idea that technology improves student writing. Because anyone can have a facebook account, write e-mails, or have an instant messaging conversation, not only students writing can improve. Other generations have the option to stay in touch easier and write whenever they want or need to.