Writing in the 21st Century

The three main challenges that this articles notes posed in this modern world are developing new models for writing, designing a new curriculum in schools to support these new models, and, in order to make all of this work, finding new ways to teach these models to future generations. It then explains how writing is an impulse that exists in man, and that people have always wanted to write, no matter what the society around them has restricted them to. It says that we as humans have found ways to break those holds and write in spite of the laws or old expectations, be them women who were very much just objectified and constrained to certain areas, or people of color facing the law restricting any ideas or freedoms on them, or even children who would be told they weren't ready to write yet. Society has always found a way, some way, in spite of all these things. Thus, this article's main push is that now that we are so much more open to allow writing into peoples lives, we need to teach writing whenever we can, so that we can open up all of these new forms of composition and learn to mold new minds with the new age of technology.
This article poses the idea that reading has always been valued over writing because of how the teaching system has always worked, and the reasons behind this. The teaching of reading has been pushed because society has wanted more receptors to join its ranks, those who would be more likely to just accept what they are being told and the control above them. This would be taught over writing because writing would teach people to think their own thoughts more and find their own ways of doing things, exercising their own control, which could cause change, and that has always made society scared. Writing is also a great deal of work, often leading to uncomfort or stress, whereas reading forms a sort of intimacy and positive emotional response, polar opposites of each other. I have experienced this same feeling from time to time, especially in a school setting, as I was usually made to write on topics that were very hard to write on and of no real interest to me. This leads to a typical feeling that alot of people share about writing: that it's just boring. To write a paper was always viewed as a dreaded matter because of the time it consumed to what always seemed to be no end.
One of the key ways in which writing is taught now is the method of process writing, the system of starting a paper, looking it all over again, and revising it, even giving it to others to read so that they could see it from another perspective and revise it further until you had a much more polished paper that what would've been had in the beginning. This process has made writing a simpler tasks on the minds than telling children to write, and in turn much easier to teach them to write for themselves. All of this teaching and practicing would later lead for people to be communicate more well thought ideas into the world, which would lead to the digital age of writing.
Crucial to the digital age of writing is self-sponsored writing, writing to people for your own personal cause in hopes of a response. This can come out in droves, much more than anyone could have ever anticipated when it comes to response from around the world in a matter of minutes, and the people who are participating in this realize its phenomenal power and use it frequently. It's creating a whole new era of communication, something the likes of which the world had never seen before. I myself have not yet participated in this movement to invoke any type of response, but I do see it's potential and would love to jump into it in the future. It's ushering in a whole new system, a new century, the 21st Century of Communication and Composition online.
This article is important because it shows us just how much writing has changed over time, and how the experience has of writing itself has shifted from a position of anguish and stress in the mind to something that is truly enjoyable and that people want to participate in.