“For Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and their followers, oral consciousness is a sonic consciousness, and the difference between orality and literacy is based on the difference between the eye and the ear.”743 It is unfortunate that Ong and others chose to make the dichotomy eye versus ear, orality versus literacy, throwing us off the scent of the myriad of ways ALFE learn, of natural learning, social learning, learning through trusted relationships and connections. While the principles of orality have been helpful and indeed revolutionary, the name would seem to be a misnomer, an incomplete
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