TOWARD A DEFINITION OF 21st-CENTURY LITERACIES
Brand new from the National Council of Teachers of English…
TOWARD A DEFINITION OF 21st-CENTURY LITERACIES
Approved February 15, 2008Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms—are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities and social trajectories of individuals and groups. Twenty-first century readers and writers need to
- Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
- Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
- Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes
- Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information
- Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
- Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
TOWARD A DEFINITION OF 21st-CENTURY LITERACIES
This is timely given that we will soon turn out attention more specifically to twenty-first century literacies.
Also, I encourage you to think about how the principles outlined here align with what we have been learning about the principles of the writing workshop. This could be the basis for an interesting professional response.
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