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Human Tech - The Eleven Skills Underlying 21St Century Novel Literacies

November 19, 2014
Historically speaking, studies of literacy induce got undergone ii major shifts over the final 4 or 5 decades. The get-go shift took house inwards early on seventies together with eighties amongst the publication of a serial of industrial plant such every bit The Literacy Myth (Harvey Graff, 1979), The Psychology of Literacy (Scribner & Cole, 1981), Literacy inwards Theory together with Practice ( Brain Street, 1984), The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life (Richard Hoggart, 1957). These studies challenged the established together with traditional approaches to literacy which, until then, was considered a personal affair, an private cognitive process. These studies emphasized the social together with cultural aspects of literacy together with advanced the stance that literacy is a social practice, a social effect mediated past times text. (for a detailed job organization human relationship of this development, read "New Literacies: Everyday Practices together with Classroom Learning").


The instant major shift emerges amongst the uptake of the social networking sites together with participatory technologies. Now, nosotros no longer speak almost a unmarried literacy merely multiple literacies. Literacies accept many forms together with embrace a varied torso of social skills together with cultural competencies. In their pop white newspaper "Confronting The Challenges of Participatory Cultures" Jenkins et al talked at length  about the evolution of these novel literacies together with how they come upward to shape the novel learning forms that accept house inwards the virtual space. According to Jenkins et al, these novel literacies involve several social skills that are developed through collaboration together with networking. These skills include :

1- Play:The capacity to experiment amongst the surroundings every bit a shape of job solving.
2- Performance:The mightiness to adopt option identities for the work of improvisation together with discovery.
3-SimulationThe mightiness to translate together with build dynamic models of real-world processes.
4-Appropriation:The mightiness to meaningfully sample together with remix media content.
5- MultitaskingThe mightiness to scan the surroundings together with shift focus onto salient details.
6- Distributed cognition:The mightiness to interact meaningfully amongst tools that expand mental capacities.
7- Collective intelligence:The mightiness to puddle knowledge together with compare notes amongst others toward a mutual goal.
8- Judgment:The mightiness to evaluate the reliability together with credibility of dissimilar data sources.
9- Transmedia navigation:The mightiness to follow the menstruum of stories together with data across multiple modalities.
10- NetworkingThe mightiness to search for, synthesize, together with disseminate information.
11- Negotiation:The mightiness to move across various communities, discerning together with respecting multiple perspectives, together with grasping together with next option norms.

(Excerpt from  the white newspaper cited above, page XIV).