Some Times coverage of our big event yesterday.
Some of our older, more experienced gamers, who are also members of the Library’s teen advisory committees, were a tad disappointed that we only had E and T games. Instead of moping, they jumped in and started teaching the younger kids how to plan.
I couldn’t have been happier with the event. Go, Jack, go.
The 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.