Mimeograph

Mimeograph

When was your tech/ media-tool invented? When was it first used in education (how?)

Mimeograph was invented in 1886 and starting from 1940s, the mimeograph began to be used to print classroom materials (i.e. handouts).

How did the technology/media tool (re)reshape educational practice and teaching/learning – or transform literacy learning and/or social-institutional-classroom organization? (Changing roles in classrooms, changing positions of authority, power relations, modes of exclusion or inclusion, ideology and modes of social action or creativity.

It reshaped education, it was the beginning of copying and mass producing work in a more “efficient” way. It allowed for a more inclusive environment for those who struggle with writing and copying. The power dynamic changes because those students who felt “helpless” or had a hard time recalling what was said orally in a class was able to obtain a sheet that had the same information as everyone else. A huge change in how much information was going around. The Mimeograph was also important in the art world. It would help to create stylized letters and symbols on print.

Connections to Literacy Paradigm?

The literacy paradigm is classical. Promotes “quiet work” mass produced sheets to fill in. Educators do not need to teach the information, but they can pass on the information as a written work to educate them. Mimeograph might be the origin of the classical teaching paradigm.

By. Amanda & Alice