New Media Literacies

How have good teachers been teaching them all along …

So many buzzwords, so little time…

New Media Literacies

21st Century Skills

Digital Literacies

Digital Citizenship

21st-Century Literacies

…All somehow sounding as if they are premised upon a distinct line drawn

between what’s “new and improved” and

what’s “old,” “old-fashioned”…. “bad” NEW &

IMPROVED!!! Old & Obsolete

New Media Literacies Old-fashioned Media and Media Literacy

21st Century Skills All the skills that were relevant before computers

Digital Literacies Pre-Digital Literacy (a.k.a. pre-historic)

21st-Century Literacies Out-of-date notions of literacy

Not the case!!!

We want to help teachers see how many of these

“new” pedagogies just use different terms

to describewhat teachers have been doing (or wanting to do)

all along.

We want to …

Honor and draw from teachers’ experience and professional expertise

As preservice teachers.. Who have the time

to study these theories and explore a few“cool tools”

We want to assist inservice teachers …

… so that they can lead the inquiry about teaching in the 21st century.

Then we can ask

How can these new tools help us reach the same goals that we have always had for students?

More effectively? More efficiently?

First, some terms!

“New Media”

A term to describe media

since the advent of

social media,

the “read/write Web,”

or Web 2.0

Web 2.0

Click on image to watch a somewhat silly but nonetheless informative definition produced by some digital natives

The New Media Literaciesfocus on the “new social skills” and “cultural competencies” needed to get along

in a world massively and permanently transformed

by Web 2.0

NML Group’s Premise

“Changes in the media environment are altering our understanding of literacy and requiring new habits of mind, new ways of processing culture and interacting with the world around us.”

A Provisional

List

“We are just beginning to identify and assess these emerging sets of social skills and cultural competencies.

We have only a broad sense of which competencies are most likely to matter as young people move from the realms of play and education and into the adult world of work and society.”

– NML Group

New Media + Skills

Youth need to know how to read, navigate, and produce “New Media”:

•Skillfully•Critically•Responsibly

Our premise

Teachers have always focused on some version of these social skill and cultural competencies in their teaching.

WE NEED TO START THERE.

Watch this video to see what we mean…

1. Play — the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving

2. Performance — the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery

3. Simulation — the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes

4. Appropriation — the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content

5. Multitasking — the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details.

6. Distributed Cognition — the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities

7. Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal

8. Judgment — the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information Sources

9. Transmedia Navigation — the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities

10.Networking — the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information

11.Negotiation — the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.

12.Visualization – the ability to translate information into visual models and to understand the information that visual models are communicating.

Now TWELVE NML: The list continues to grow!

We will focus in on five select NML that we feel best demonstrate our point

We invite you to listen, watch, discuss, “play,”

and to help us understand the profession during

this time of sweeping change.

Schedule

Week 1: Play

Week 2: Appropriation

Week 3: Visualization

Week 4: Collective Intelligence

Week 5: Judgement

Structure of our Weekly Inquiry Define the featured NML

Connect to what teachers have always done

Explore the NML in “no tech” setting

Ask how technology’s transformation of our world also… Shifts the boundaries our discipline Makes teachers’ jobs easier Enhances students’ learning

Explore the NML in a “high tech” setting and introduce relevant“cool tools”

“Play” with some relevant “cool tools”

Culminating DiscussionWeek 6

How to locate free new tools

How to find funding for new tools that cost

How to collaborate with preservice teachers to get technology support so that you can begin leading your field toward a better future!

Please post any reactions or begin discussing on the Ning.

Our first NML discussion will begin early next week.

Thank you!