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Beyond ‘new’ literacies
Hi all! I just found out about this through a listserv I subscribe to, and it looks like there are some interesting articles in this special themed issue: Beyond ‘new’ literacies, edited by Dana J....
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Ah Violetta! A different kind of Multi-Tasking? Collaborative Function as an...
Recently, at a desk bestrewn with empty coffee cups, a half-dozen books, digital audio equipment, handwritten lists, old syllabi, and class notebooks, I’ve found myself multitasking. Similarly, my...
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The Value of New Literacies in the Composition Classroom
We’ve all been there. At least once in our academic careers we have spent the first 20 minutes of a class period watching the teacher or student presenter battle it out with the technology they were...
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15 Megabytes of Fame
Michael Wesch’s compelling video An anthropological introduction to YouTube is a Rosetta Stone for the current state (give or take a few years) of the video blog or vlog. He highlights and translates a...
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New Literacies, values, voices, and technology
There is something especially appropriate about writing a post about “New Literacies” on a collaborative blog, especially a blog that I don’t “own” or control. I’m participating in an interactive...
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Gaming into “New”Literacies
While reading Lankshear and Knobel ( “”New” Literacies: Research and Social Practice” and A New Literacies Sampler) , I needed a way to keep track of all their definitions and subcategories of ”new”...
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The Myth and Partial Reality of Disruptive Technology
Whether it was the first brick phone to present day smartphones, not a day goes by in Silicon Valley where we don’t hear another technology company disrupting our lives and creating innovative...
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Tech Identities: An Evolution of an Old Problem in Academia
As I read “Becoming Literate in the Information Age” and considered my own development in my own identities in technology and literacy outside of the “norm,” I began to think on the struggle for...
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Hot or Not: Invisible Transgressions in Composition(s)
I was absolutely thrilled to be assigned this week’s topic, as I have long been fascinated about form and content, or the idea of form being content (a comment I made that Kory so brilliantly rephrased...
View ArticleDefining New Literacies: Participation, Collaboration, and Communities of...
Unsurprisingly given the title of this week’s class, the readings from this set were all interested in exploring and defining the concept of “literacy/ies,” and in particular, “new literacies.” Gee...
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