Lankshear and Knobel
New Literacies in a Social Context
What is Literacy?
Literacies “socially recognized ways of generating, communicating and negotiating meaningful content through the medium of encoded texts within contexts of participation in Discourses (or, as members of Discourses).”
Back to the 80s-Remixing
-Copyright law-using cultural materials
-Form of writing-multiple sources and put together
-An aspect of culture-try to make it part of us -Used increasingly to make meaning and express ideas
Example of Remixing
Other examples-Fan fiction, magna anime, photoshopping
Memes!
Memes-“contagious patterns of cultural information that are passed from mind to mind and that directly shape and propagate key actions and mindsets of
a social group.”
Clothing style, songs,
catch phrases
Application to Education
-Formal learning move more outside classroom
-Computing and communications technologies CCT-find edu. Stuff-
Examples of Implementation
The GPS example
Interactive museum
Blog example
-Digital busy work
Digital pretend v. reality
-Using “a menu-driven set of stimuli, not socially networked collaboration”
What we SHOULD Do
-Think of education in terms of trajectory into social future
-Integrated-from “inside a practice” in context, social tools in relationship to each other
-More integrated, less conflict with identity-French
-Build on what students already know