There were a couple of portions that really caught my attention from each of the handouts that seemed to have the same theme. In Chapter VI, Wireless Laptop Classrooms, it states, "It is our philosophy not to invent something new for the sake of newness, but to look to the internet and consider how we can academically and intellectually enhance curriculum and class activities. " On a somewhat similar note, Literature and the Web gives this line: "Reading is recursive and the teaching of literature is a complex process that always depends, regardless of what technologies are in use, on the student and the work, and the complex interchange between the two." If, as Chapter VI states, that web-publishing is the basic writing skill of this generation, why should we, as students, be constantly pushed to essentially reinvent the wheel when it comes to producing texts of academic work and to do so in a traditional research paper format? The complex interchange is indeed true, and since every student learns, responds, and can reiterate information in a different format, why not allow more freedom to do so? The idea of allowing students to develop web pages in lieu of a traditional analysis paper for a Postcolonial Literature course is a great one, and if teachers are trying to prepare current/future teachers to embrace technology and pass this emphasis along to their students, they should be more fully engaged with the material, so to speak.
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