What did you learn about new literacies from this week’s video “The essential elements of digital literacies” and from the reading “Dawn of new literacies”?
New literacies encompass ways of thinking about information and experiences, processing with others to challenge and continuously update thinking, and demonstrating new ideas, solutions, and understandings in the manner that best suits the situation with the system of the new literacies; it can create opportunities for learning and individual critical thinking. They can expand the learning environment outside of the classroom, making it more inclusive of less social students. They can also give students and teachers practice with valuable modern-day skills.
Consult our class glossary under course profile-docs. Find one example of new literacies that surprised you and/ or that you disagree with.
New literacies are deictic, meaning they change regularly as new technologies emerge. For example, the Internet is a key source of new technologies for reading, writing, and communicating. Because technology is always changing, the most valuable skill is learning how to learn new strategies when new tools and interfaces emerge.
How can we apply Szwed’s and Perry’s definitions of literacy as we study new literacies?
Literacy is more than just reading and writing. It’s about how people communicate in society, and includes social practices, relationships, knowledge, language, and culture. In these new literacies it emphasizes the cultural practices associated with everyday technologies. New literacies include proficiency with digital tools, and the ability to collaborate, create, design, navigate, and evaluate multimedia texts.
What are some “new literacies” that have helped you with your schooling? Explain.
Visual literacy has helped me in my schooling because Visual literacy helps me as a student to learn how to collaborate and discuss a wide range-ideas while expressing myself. It helps me develop visual thinking, which is a learning style where I can associate my ideas, words, and concepts with images. Visual literacy creates meaning from images for me, which in turn improves my writing proficiency and critical thinking skills by integrating visual literacy in my class. I learn to collaborate my ideas.
Have you ever had to help someone with technology (new literacies) who was not tech savvy? What was that experience like?
I alway show my family members how to use mobile phones. They are graduates but during their own time of schooling it is when all phones use keys unlike our own time that technology has upgraded so they are still getting used to it. So the will alway call on me to help to upload documents for them and also ask for my if there is anything they want to do but don’t know how to do it, which button to press,or where to click, sometime when I am not around to show them how to do it, the will keep it aside for me to come back and do it or show them what to do.
What is ONE “new literacies” that you cannot live without?
I am all about digital literacy, because it is a quick and easy way to find information. I can find answers to just about any question that I have with just a few clicks of a button and I will find any location, any website, download anything I want to, check the weather, e.t.c.
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