McGrady.+Hidden+Disruptions

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 * Hidden Disruptions: Technology and Technological Literacy as Influences on Professional Writing Student Teams**
 * //The Writing Instructor.// May 2010**. [|McGrady, Lisa.] [| http://www.writinginstructor.com/]

In this article Lisa McGrady is trying to relay the fact that no degree is needed for people to use electronic for simple tasks and research throughout their years in their lives and educational experience.Many people swim the deep pools of the internet by simple researching tasks and using word to write papers and draft documents everyday. McGrady wonders what would happen if you were to put multiple people in a group project, all of them having a relatively similar knowledge of the electronic devices used today with specific skills that will help in achieving their project goal. She wants to see the importance of technological collaboration and the benefits of achieving knowledge in the growing field with at hand electronic devices.
 * Abstract **

Lisa McGrady takes it upon herself to conduct a study on a group of students working with technology both in and out of the classroom. Technological influences on the project were tough. The girls in the group faced numerous challenges along the way. McGrady explores the difficulties the group came upon and analyzes future outcomes for collaborative teams. Furthermore, McGrady explores the influences that each individual brings to the team technologically. She refers to this as technological literacy, which is the technological capability/skill that each person brings to the team. The study shows that every individual has varying sense of technological literacy and therefore troubles may arise in collaborative teams, especially if none of the team members exemplify any type of technological capabilities. Levels of technological literacy should be taken into account by teachers when assigning collaborative teams due to the fact that the ability to comprehend and solve technological issues may affect academia not only on an individual basis but as a group as well.
 * Argument **

Definition of technological literacy:
 * Key Passages **
 * “Each member of the Candy Team entered the project with a unique technological literacy; that is her own history with technology, skills with technology, attitudes toward and values concerning technology, and contextualized literacy practices using technology.”

McGrady explains the importance of her study and new media:
 * “The field of professional writing has a strong body of work interrogating cutting-edge technologies and their potential for pedagogy.”

Cook, Kelli Cargile. (2002). Layered literacies: A theoretical frame for technical communication pedagogy. //Technical Communication Quarterly, 11,//5-29
 * Selected Works Cited **

Selber, Stuart A. (2004a). Reimagining the functional side of computer literacy. //College Composition and Communication, 55,// 470-503.

Selber, Stuart A. (2004b). Technological dramas: A meta-discourse heuristic for critical literacy. //Computers and Composition, 21,// 171-195.