The Future of Literacy

In "The Future of Literacy" the authors present four case studies and talk about how they became literate and improved their skills through computers and technology.  Of all four, I feel like I make a connection with the Danielle DeVoss case study the most.  I feel like I was the brother in the story and she was my sister.  I can not remember how young I was when I was first introduced into computers but it had to be around the same time I learned to read and write.  I know my sister and I definitely would fight for computer time though, even though all we were fighting for was to play solitare or with microsoft windows 95 Paint.  But through using the computer all the time to play games and even using learning programs that teach reading and writing skills, technology has impacted my literacy skills, and basically built them.  As computer technology increased over the years, I was right there with it learning it all.  Photoshop, dreamweaver, excel, word, several different engineering 3-D design programs, and powerful function input programs like Matlab along with more than a bakers dozen videogames have given me the technological literacy I have today, which is similar to how Danielle developed her web literacies.