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Human Tech - Wonderful Mini-Posters On The 21St Century Literacies

December 31, 2014
The concept of literacy is notoriously elusive in addition to difficult to define. Aside from the shallow in addition to intellectually-impaired  definition that sums upwardly  literacy inward  reading in addition to writing printed text, whatever serious in addition to profound investigation of literacy does, past times implication, entail an analysis of the novel ways of learning in addition to meaning-making afforded past times digitality. New digital media convey provided learners alongside novel in addition to revolutionary ways of producing, discussing, sharing in addition to interacting alongside text.

These ways, to country the to the lowest degree nearly them, are multimodally complex in addition to telephone band for an integrated ready of skills that acquire beyond the mere mightiness to code in addition to decode meaning. In this sense, to hold upwardly literate inward such a multimodal environs requires agreement in addition to using a broad hit of interconnected literacies. We are no longer talking nearly a unmarried literacy equally was the instance since the project design of writing around 6000 twelvemonth ago, nosotros are, instead,  in front end of multiple novel emerging  and interdependent literacies. Today's students are asked to convey a working cognition of these literacies inward gild to hold upwardly able to thrive inward a globalized cognition economy. Katchy Schrock has this wonderful resource where she features around awesome mini-posters defining the fundamental literacies making upwardly today's Literacy (with working capital missive of the alphabet letter) landscape.  These visuals are ideal for classroom inclusion. I invite y'all to cheque them out in addition to part alongside your colleagues.

Here is a quick round-up of the major literacies included inward these posters:

  • Information literacy
  • Visual literacy
  • Critical literacy
  • Media literacy
  • Tool literacy
  • Digital literacy
  • Data literacy
  • Global literacy
  • Economic literacy
  • Civic literacy
  • Health literacy
  • Historical literacy
  • Traditional literacy

Here is an  example of Kathy's posters. Check out the remainder of these posters from this link.