Pencils.

The gate way to literacy is what people use to help them write and comprehend the things they read and write. Writing is a technology because its how we share our knowledge and ideas with others, and past it on to the next generation. Yes, a pencil is a piece of technology because it is also a way people can share and pass on knowledge and ideas with others. Plato dislikes the written word because he thought it would weaken our memories. Writing allows us to communicate in ways that speech doesn't allow, but it lacks tonal cues that speaking has. Thoreau connects to pencil technology because he was a pencil designer who sought to improve the process by developing a cutting-edge manufacturing technology. The telephone helped shape communication technology because it showed us the pattern of it. The telephone also combined both speaking and writing situations. Baron's conclusion is trying to say that every piece of technology that has came to life was once not excepted or considered bad, but after they have eventually been excepted they changed the way we do things. This article defines literacy as having sufficient control technology to be able to use it to help them read and write in new ways.