The September issue of Harper's Magazine has a roundtable on videogames and literacy, including some discussion with Raph Koster. I haven't picked up the issue yet (and Harper's Website doesn't appear to mention it, unless I'm missing something), but Koster's weblog has a quote and then some interesting followup.
To me, there’s a question hanging over our conversation, which is: What kind of writing do we hope to teach? We might like to teach kids to write like Proust, but no one writes like Proust anymore. Appropriation and annotation are becoming our new forms of literacy. Think of blogs, for example: most blog posts are reblogs, they’re parasitic on things other people have written. It’s a democratized writing, a democratized literacy.
[via Raph's Website]
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