According to Selber, Critical Literacy questions the politics of computers and finding out what kind of motivation is behind such technology. Selber asks question like, Who profits? What is left behind for what reasons? How is software politicized? Therefore, critical literacy aims at bringing awareness. Perhaps for students like myself, this is self evident since my critical liteacy stems from everything I've learned in English class. However, I don't think many highschool kids are aware of the powers behind these tools. I like how Selber quotes Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo saying, “a person is literate to the extent that he or she is able to use language for social and political reconstruction”. We must change what is already constructed.
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