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Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
"As the school year begins, be ready to hear pundits fretting once again about how kids today can't write—and technology is to blame.
Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into "bleak, bald, sad shorthand"
New Literacy in the Web 2.0 World
The presentation discusses emerging literacies and argues that school curriculum mus tbe revised to teach students to manage information, make meaning from multimodal text and represent knowledge and information. The session also introduces an idea of social networking literacy.
What is Literacy? | always learning
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