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What is new about the new literacies?After Class 9 readings and after you have completed your personal blog postings at MyPage, engage in a discussion with your classmates on this question: What is "new" about the new literacies?" Is this really just the same-old, same-old, or has something fundamentally changed here for learners and teacher-librarians today? |
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Jun. 13, 2008 Plan by Kim Dyment |
Applying The New Literacies Sampler to Practice: Based on chapters from The New Literacies Sampler that you read in small groups, how do notions of new literacies explained by Knobel and Lankshear apply in practice? Consider the main concepts that were introduced in chapters 1 and 10 of the Knobel and Lankshear book, ane what your small groups discussed about the individual chapters you read, and describe some ways that these concepts/ideas would look in practice. What does a mindset 1 vs mindset 2 classroom look like? What does teaching and learning based on "new ethos stuff" look like when combined with "new technical stuff? that "mobilizes very different kinds of values and priorities and sensibilities than the literacies we are familiar with.(p. 7). Think about what this means in practice -- instruction, resources, assessment, curriculum, policy etc. Our goal for the whole group is to move towards concrete ways of implementing new literacies in your particular contexts. |
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Jun. 11, 2008 Reply by Rosemary Driscoll |
What do you want to know more in terms of new literaces and teaching new literacies?Kapitzke's (another Australian!) two articles push your thinking about new literacies in library programs to perhaps uncomfortable levels. Her language may be difficult when first reading as she draws heavily from critical theory. Like Lonsdale and McCurry who provided a historical overview of conceptions of literacy, Kapitzke does this for information literacy in her 2003 article. The concrete example from her 2005 book chapter should help you see her theory in practice. Consider her thesis that "the information literacy framework is incompatible with emergent concepts of knowledge and epistemology for digital and online environments." How can you design your information literacy program to be more aligned with the assumptions of new literacies -- that knowledge is collaborative, participatory and distributed; that new ethos and new technologies go hand in hand; that learning is a social and constructive process? What do you want to know more about to realize these principles in your own teaching? Your next course with Keith McPherson will continue to explore these issues. Your questions at this time will help shape your learning for your next stage of the program. |
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Jun. 9, 2008 Reply by Cindy Ramsay |
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