21st Century Literacy
August 24th, 2005The New Media Consortium (NMC) has released a report on media literacy. They describe A Global Imperative: The Report of the 21st Century Literacy Summit as a call to action to people working in any aspect of education. They talk about 21st century literacy as
the set of abilities and skills where aural, visual and digital literacy overlap. These include the ability to understand the power of images and sounds, to recognize and use that power, to manipulate and transform digital media, to distribute them pervasively, and to easily adapt them to new forms.
They say that one-way relationships, like that of the reader and author, will give way to conversations. In the spirit of that dialog, I am tracking visitors with another brilliant Google Maps tool.
Interesting publication. I’m curious about your google Maps tool; how does it help facilitate dialog, or help the reader/author relationship “give way” to conversations?
by Jeremy August 30th, 2005 at 3:58 pmJeremy,
I figured that an academic had posted this one. Who else would give such a close reading of my post?
True, by setting this up I have not invited readers to speak, but I think that by looking at where my few readers are on the planet, and by inviting readers to do the same, I do inch away from one-way communication toward conversation.
Carrie
by admin August 31st, 2005 at 8:19 pmI think it’s an interesting way to look at it. Maybe I’m thinking of conversation too narrowly. So the goal of the map is to allow your readers to see the “community” of Rogue Librarian visitors?
In any case, I’m very sympathetic to the idea of conversations, and to multi-media literacy. Being an academic (in history, to beat it all), I’m often confronted with one-way communication. Even the idea of “discussion” through books (which is what a lot of historians call historiography) is an illusion to me. I’m not sure if its the lack of immediacy or something else.
by Jeremy August 31st, 2005 at 9:42 pm