A few shifts
by Scott McLeod
Contemporary Literacy — Don’t think about how technology has advanced. We might get further by thinking about how information has changed: what it looks like, what we look at to view it, how we find it, where we find it, what we can do with it, and how we communicate it. Contemporary Literacy & Teaching — What does the new information landscape mean to us in our jobs, and how might we use it to improve and grow in jobs? How do I utilize my own new literacies to create and maintain my own ongoing professional development, to cultivate my own personal learning network? Cracking the ‘Native’ Information Experience • Hacking the ‘Native’ Information Experience — What are the qualities of our students outside-the-classroom information experiences? How do they use information to work, play, converse, and learn? What do those actions look like outside the classroom, and what might they look like inside?
1 comment
Dec 02, 2009
jimevers said...
How right you are; however, the new literacy (or mediacy as I prefer to call it) should include critical questioning of the content of new media. Urban legends abound. Hemingway put it more strongly when he said that we all need good crap detectors.
