10-second review: Institutions, including schools, have failed to keep up with the pace of technology and communication in the process of globalization.
Title: "The Relationship of Reading ICT to Opportunity Structure: An Object of Study?" P Freebody and M Hornibrook. Reading Research Quarterly (July/ August/ September 2005), 371 -376.
Quote: "Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the end of the twentieth century is the tension between this accelerating process of globalization and the inability of both public institutions and the collective behavior of human beings to come to terms with it." (Hobsbawm, 1994, p. 15)
Quote: "But for him to conclude that 'the most striking characteristic of the end of the twentieth century' was not the civilian body counts, but rather the lag between, on the one hand, the technological and communicational features of the globalized world, and on the other, the practices, skills and dispositions of institutions, is extraordinary—a telling conclusion for educators in general, with especially glaring implications...for literacy educators."
Comment: This article is an example of researchers' ability to frame the question clearly but to provide only disappointing answers. So I present my readers with the question: How do we as educators transform teaching English to make maximum use of technology and communication as part of the process of globalization? RayS.
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