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New Literacies Report

The document discusses the evolution of literacy from basic reading and writing skills to a multi-faceted concept that includes various new literacies such as digital, media, and multicultural literacy. It emphasizes the importance of adapting education to equip students with the necessary skills to navigate a technology-driven society. Additionally, it highlights the role of teachers in fostering these new literacies through professional training and the integration of technology in the classroom.

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New Literacies Report

The document discusses the evolution of literacy from basic reading and writing skills to a multi-faceted concept that includes various new literacies such as digital, media, and multicultural literacy. It emphasizes the importance of adapting education to equip students with the necessary skills to navigate a technology-driven society. Additionally, it highlights the role of teachers in fostering these new literacies through professional training and the integration of technology in the classroom.

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New literacies

introduction
Between 1950 and 1970, the development of literacy, both operational and
functional, was established. During this period, literacy was defined as
reading and writing skills necessary for activities in modern society (Güneş,
2000). Beyond the 1990s, literacy had started to diversify in light of
technological developments, changes in living conditions in cities, and new
necessities. Hereafter, literacy became multi-faceted.

At first, literacy was used in various types, such as computer literacy,


technology literacy, Internet literacy, and media literacy, respectively (Altun,
2005). Later on, it became a lifestyle along with a person’s entire life in a
society that encompasses informational literacy, cultural literacy, and
universal literacy.
Truly, literacy has changed and developed through a multitude of phases
within a specific period based on societal needs.
However, along this line, literacy is not confines only to knowing how to read
and write rather, it is matter of applying knowledge for specific purposes in
particular contexts. It includes a socially-driven and evolved a pattern of
activities, such as writing correspondence, records keeping and inventories,
posting announcements, reporting, etc. As such, Lankshear & Knobel (2006)
averred that literacies intend to generate and communicate meanings
through the medium of encoded texts within contexts in various discourses.

Kress (2003) posited that literacy can only happen when having a kind of
potential content through interaction with the text. Likewise, a particular text
may be understood for being connected or related. Although in a way, such
meaning can be more relational than literal or expressing solidarity or affinity
with prticular people, like understanding the Internet, online practices and
online content. Hence, anything available online can become a resouce for
making diverse meaning.
Literacies can bear a coding system that can capture meaning, such as
"letteracy" (i.e., within language and recognition of alphabetic symbols).

Moreover, the Primary English Teaching Association Australia (2015) asserts


that 21st-century literacy has expanded to include social change, increasing
field expertise, and digital technologies. To be literate requires comprehension,
selection, and use of multimodal codes and conventions to interpret and
express ideas, feelings, and information. Subject-specific literacies are
recognized to require the application of specialized knowledge and skills,
information skills, and the use of creative and imaginative language.

Literacy in the 21st century, therefore, demands the ability to perform and act
confidently, efficiently, and ethically with a wide range of written and visual,
print, live, digital, or electronic text types according to purpose.
The increasing complexity of modern communication gives rise to a number
of distinct capabilities and possibilities. Hence, 21st-century literacy
combines cross-curricular capabilities, also called "multiliteracies," and now
commonly recognized as broad skills that include visual literacy, media
literacy, and digital literacy. These extend traditional print literacy to equip
students to understand and synthesize knowledge and information with new
technologies, such as blogging, fan fiction writing, photoshopping, animé
music videos, gaming, running a paper-based business, creating wordless
picture books, film-making, and reading bus timetables (Petaa Australia,
Leander (2003) noted that new literacy are often flexible, continuous and
2015).
open, where online and offline lives and "literacyscapes" merge. Thus, when
a literacy practice becomes a new mindset with the concept of Web 2.0, it
can be regarded as a new literacy. New technologies enable and enhance
these practices in a way that is literacy in a way that is highly complex and
exciting for students.
Exploring the new
There are seven new literacies that are stressed in the 21st-century
curriculum:
literacies
1.Multicultural Literacy – Understanding ethnic groups that
comprise the population and focusing on complex issues of
identity, diversity, and citizenship.
2.Social Literacy – The development of social skills, knowledge, and
positive values in human beings to act positively and responsibly
in sophisticated, complex social settings.
3.Media Literacy – The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and
create media.
4.Financial Literacy – The ability to make informed judgments and
make effective decisions regarding the use and management of
money.
5. Digital Literacy – The ability to effectively use digital devices for
purposes of communication, expression, collaboration, and advocacy in
a knowledge-based society.

6. Ecological Literacy – Understanding the principles of ecosystems


toward sustainability.

7. Creative Literacy – The ability to make original ideas that have value
and the ability to see the world in new ways.
The Truth on 21st Century Literacies According to Research
Success with technology depends largely on critical thinking and reflection.
Teachers with relatively little technological skills can provide less useful
instruction. Therefore, schools must support teachers by providing them with
professional training and up-to-date technology for utilization in classrooms.

Building and Enhancing New Literacies Across the Curriculum


Global economies, new technologies, and exponential growth in information
are transforming society. Since today’s people engage with a technology-
driven, diverse, and quickly changing world, teachers need to prepare students
with problem-solving, collaboration, and analysis skills, as well as technical
proficiency in word processing, hypertext, LCDs, webcams, podcasts,
smartboards, and social networking software that are central to individual and
community success.
The National Council of Teachers of English (2013) came up with research
that reveals the following:

1.As new technologies shape literacies, they bring opportunities for


teachers to foster reading and writing in more diverse and participatory
contexts.
2.Sites like literature’s Voice of the Shuttle, online fanfiction, and the
Internet Public Library expand both the range of available texts and the
social dimension of literacy.
3.Research on electronic reading workshops shows that they contribute to
the emergence of new literacies.
4.Research also shows that digital technology enhances writing and
interaction in several ways.
5. K-12 students, who write with computers, produce compositions of
greater length and higher quality and are more engaged and motivated
toward writing than those who do not write with computers.

6. College students, who keep e-portfolios, have a higher rate of academic


achievement and overall retention than those who do not. They also
demonstrate a greater capacity for metacognition, reflection, and audience
awareness.

7. Both typical and atypical students, who receive an online response to


writing, revise their works better than those participating in traditional
methods.
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