Techno-literacy and State Standards

"paying attention" refers to the instructor, not the student, for Selfe. As instructors, and thus pivaltal leaders in the education of students, it is our job to note the literary and cultural changes occuring within our society. If we educate studebts without having the goal of "paying attention" to things such as techno-literacy, we risk leaving our students inadequately able to succeed in a world that is now techno-literate. This means redefining curriculem and standards in order to promote critical thinking amoung students. Selfe states that our obligations as instructors is to {"read and analyze the texts and lives of our students" (160). Yet I only wonder how this goal is attainable for highschool and grade school instructors who are burden with the uneasy task of maintaining ridiculous state standards. Perhaps before we set the stage for techno-literacy we should first do away with the state standards that fill up the academic calender leaving little to no room to educate students on what is actually useful.