Last week, I interviewed fellow CofC student and creative writing enthusiast Rachael Greene on how technology has affected her writing process both in a classroom setting and outside of a classroom. Like myself, she enjoys writing short stories in her downtime and occasionally shared them with her teachers in high school, so writing is an…Continue Reading Writers’ Interview on Writing – Anna Williams

College is a time in which people from an assortment of backgrounds and upbringings come together for a similar purpose. Sometimes it feels like professors don’t remember this crucial detail when undergraduates start at the college.  Every elementary, middle, and high school across the country have a different approach to using technology; so the student…Continue Reading Do Rising Undergraduates Have the Same Digital Literacy Levels?

Indigenous to Instagram. Natives of the net. Generation Z appears to be the most tech-savvy population in the United States. Born into an age of clunky home computers and flip phones, this tribe grew and adapted to use tools such as smartphones, tablets, and smart watches. They now pack together, huddling around the warmth of…Continue Reading Did You Hear About the Zoomers? : Misconceptions About Gen-Z and Technology

Photo From: https://hbr.org/2020/03/coronavirus-is-widening-the-corporate-digital-divide Have you ever sat down and thought about your own digital literacy practices? Or have you ever heard of the term before entering College? Digital literacy is integrated into our everyday lives without many of us ever really noticing it or being able to put a name to it.  This is something…Continue Reading Affects COVID has on Digital Literacy & Accessibility

Digital literacy has become an ever-increasingly hot topic, especially in 2020, when university students and professors were forced to adapt to a whole new learning environment- online and from a distance. Technology has never been more a part of our lives than right now, so, who better to interview, then, than Meg Carroll, who grew…Continue Reading Adapting to Digital Learning and the Loss of Accountability

  For a majority of us, we have been learning to read and write better since elementary school. Our literacy practices have been refined as we grow up, and for a good reason: reading and writing are important to function in the world. Sure, it is not “impossible” to live one’s life without these skills….Continue Reading The Ever-growing Digital Literacy of This Generation and the Next.

Darian Reed is a student at the College of Charleston studying English with a focus in Writing, Rhetoric, and Publication, as well as a minor in Studio Art. We conducted our interview over e-mail, as Reed was struggling with some of her camera/microphone equipment. It is interesting that an interview meant to delve into concepts…Continue Reading Keeping Up with Technology: The Millennial Experience

If you’re living in 2020, you may find these truths to be self-evident: that all people have been staying in, that they are endowed by the US government with unalienable general confusion, and that amidst this, they can do nothing but float through life with a distorted sense of time, banana bread recipe in hand…Continue Reading e-Learning in the COVID Age: Uncovering one student’s journey to a positive attitude about online learning

The Coronavirus has been quite a far reaching disease; its infected millions, put people out of jobs, cost people their healthcare, and cancelled celebrations. It’s also changed the way that we’re doing schooling possibly forever. I can recall thinking, when I was much younger than I am now, that school might become a virtual affair….Continue Reading Digital Literacy Practices Test ‘Positive’ for COVID-19

It’s March 2020 and thousands of students are already scattered across the country enjoying their much needed spring break while College of Charleston students are packing their bags getting ready to embark on their own spring break trips. First, it’s an email from the school extending spring break an extra week. Students are overjoyed. An…Continue Reading Zoom University: More Harm Than Good?