Changing Literacies

For me, one of the cornerstone reasons to use technology in our classrooms is because it allows us to reconsider what it means to be literate. The creation and comprehension of complex, multi - modal, globally connected texts is vital to our changing definition.

The third in my series of essays about classroom 2.0, here is changing literacies.

Any feedback and critique is needed and welcomed.

Download changing_literacies.pdf

I've also started a new page (over there on the left sidebar) as a space that I'm going to collect all of these essays in. Hopefully the list will keep expanding.....

Comments

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Clarence:

What an interesting essay.

I do believe that today's technologies are allowing for more networked interaction, so that's the good news. Indeed, my company (www.carmun.com) is geared towards interactions between students themselves, perhaps even outside the confines of the traditional teacher/student relationship or paradigm. What I am particularly interested in is that networked interaction that works within the traditional paradigm and new ones only just now being created.

Thanks