I have redefined my definition of the words text and technology as I move further into the assignments of this course.

Starting with an exercise in etymology and then delving into my bag for unspoken texts, I have found that my definition of text has shifted from being written words to any medium that conveys a message. 

In my readings from this past week I find that Michael Wesch and his talk about moving from knowledgeable to knowlede-able has resonated the most for me, in terms of literacy.

It is time to redefine what the term literacy means. Instead of oral literacy or alphabetical literacy the idea of multi-literacies takes the stage.

I am remixing literacy with knowledge. I had performed my course tasks out of order. After the emoticon story task, I jumped to the Inyerface challenge. This jump helped me reassess what we now consider common educational tools.

Harold Innis alluded to the fact that the entity producing the educational tools materials will be the one who guides the thinking for the next generation. In the case of an Internet-connected learning society, the entity that controls access to the Internet will be the guiding force.

Literacy is the ability to navigate through text and then pull relevant information from that text.

In this case then, literate health is the ability to discern false news from incomplete research or solid results and skewed conclusions.

With this in mind I chose to represent what is in my bag as a radio documentary. This style of radio show was popular from the thirties to the fifties, and also worked its way into television.

Radio documentaries were used to represent a society norm in an informational and entertaining way. An authoritative voice from a radio or television box would define what a family unit should be thinking, in world politics, or in familial hierarchy.

The snippets that we can listen to in our modern day are met with humour. Very often the woman was encouraged to take a supporting role, to keep a clean house and cook dinner, and the husband was encouraged to lead the house as a benevolent patriarch.
 

I would like you to listen to my audio file while imagining that this is the sole means of telecommunication in our culture. Imagine that radio was the only means to learn about life beyond your neighbourhood. 

After listening to my radio documentary,
please answer my question:

Would you have been inspired or motivated to be the same type of working mother or working father as depicted in the documentary?