In this week’s symposium, two topics are brought up. The first one was differences between print literacy and networked literacy. Although they are two kind of different literacy, they do not against each other. Print literacy refers to books, newspapers, novels, magazines and so on. people can actually read them from a piece of paper. It is the traditional way of consuming information and knowledge. When I am young, the computer and the entire electronic industry was not developed like today’s. People used to read stuff from papers. Now, the Internet has replaced all of these. People can get plenty of information from web pages, phones, laptops. Networked literacy has gradually replaced the printed literacy. However, people still use printed literacy. They are not against each other, and they can exist at the same time. Nevertheless, networked literacy has a larger platform of communication and a larger range of information than printed literacy. This will raise another topic today.

Since networked literacy have a large range of information, how do we recognize and tell its validity. There is various information on the Internet. Some of them is from official website with good authority, some of them is from experts’ opinion, some of them is a random guy’s blog, some of them is from a video draws plenty people’s attention. What should we trust in. How can we tell the reliability. Sometime we trust it wholeheartedly, but it turns out to be fake. We need to filter information from the Internet and try to use the ones with strong authorities.

Another point brought up in the lab was that the future of print literacy depends on if people continue using it from some degrees. People tend to use networked media more those days because it is faster, with more information, easier to communicate. However the networked media is developed from print literacy, the connection between these two is noticeable.

In addition, we prepared for the next week’s HTML test in the lab. I felt easy and confident to the HTML test. We generally went through the process of what we will do during the test. The software we need to download, the file we need to create, the test requirement. Later, Elliot sent us an e-mail of a walkthrough about preparing the test which was very helpful.