2. So many buzzwords, so little
time…
New Media Literacies
21st Century Skills
Digital Literacies
Digital Citizenship
21st-Century Literacies
3. …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-fashionedMedia 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21st-Century Literacies Out-of-date notions of literacy
5. We want to help teachers
see how many of these
“new” pedagogies just use
different terms
to describe
what teachers have been
doing (or wanting to do)
all along.
6. We want to …
Honor and draw from teachers’
experience and professional
expertise
7. As preservice teachers..
Who have the time
to study these theories and
explore a few“cool tools”
We want to assist inservice
teachers …
8. … so that they can lead the
inquiry about teaching in the
21stcentury.
9. 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?
11. “New Media”
A term to describe media
since the advent of
social media,
the “read/write Web,”
or Web 2.0
12. Web 2.0
Click on image to watch a somewhat silly but nonetheless
informative definition produced by some digital natives
13. The New Media Literacies
focus on the “new social skills”
and “cultural competencies”
needed to get along
in a world
massively and permanently
transformed
by Web 2.0
14. 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.”
15. A Provisional
“We are just beginning to
List 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
16. New Media + Skills
Youth need to know how to
read, navigate, and produce
“New Media”:
•Skillfully
•Critically
•Responsibly
17. Our premise
Teachers have always focused on some version
of these social skill and cultural competencies in
their teaching.
WE NEED TO START THERE.
18.
19. Now TWELVE NML: The list continues to grow!
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 informationSources
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.
20. We will focus in on five select
NML that we feel best
demonstrate our point
21. We invite you to
listen, watch, discuss, “play,”
and to help us understand
the profession during
this time of sweeping change.
23. 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”
24. Culminating Discussion
Week 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!
25. Please post any reactions or
begin discussing on the Ning.
Our first NML discussion will begin
early next week.
