New literacies

person might kill them first, so they strike first. The fear of new technology is the same, individuals do not understand so they want to kill it off, or they do not want to give technology a chance. This is an irrational fear because technology can bring great advances to the world such as the printing press and the telephone. In the 1440s the printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg there were some people who did not like this new invention and feared it. There was a monk by the name Johannes

first used, ‘literacy’ had a very traditional meaning: the ability to read and write (“Literacy,” 2011). Being literate was the norm, it was required for all and it distinguished race and class. However, as times change and culture emerges and grows, people acquire new knowledge, such as technology, that can very well be identified as literacy, or media literacy. As technology leads the 21st century, students are now expected to excel and master media literacy as well textual literacy (Jenkins, Clinton

The term “new literacy” encompasses such an extensive range of topics that it has been difficult to clearly define and articulate. There are several important aspects to new literacy. At its most basic level, new literacy is the ability to read, comprehend, and write within the digital sphere (Kingsley & Tancock, 2014). It is similar to traditional literacy in some ways; however, new literacies typically require a more complicated and intricate skill set than traditional literacy (Coiro, 2011). Also

study in the frameworks of New Literacy Studies (NLS), multimodality, and sociocultural identities theory. NLS looks at literacy learning in the 21st century as a social and cultural phenomenon; multimodality uses a variety of modes such as visual, audio, and spatial representations to achieve the purpose of meaning making; sociocultural identities theory focuses identity construction in social contexts where individuals interact with the social world such as their literacy activities of reading and

New literacies change the teaching of reading in many ways. Reading is no longer considered a process where students sit and read, analyze or discuss information only from books, printed articles or newspaper. As new technology shape literacies, children are now required to be exposed to so much more. Today, new literacy calls for teachers to teach literacy instruction through the use of technologies in order to enhance learning and productivity. Technologies such as computers, interactive whiteboards

"The distinctive contribution of the approach to literacy as social practice lies in the ways in which it involves careful and sensitive attention to what people do with texts, how they make sense of them and use them to further their own purposes in their own learning lives" (Gillen and Barton, 2010, p. 9). I work in a college; therefore I have observed New Literacies in action several times. New Literacies, I have observed are Smartboards, computer labs, English skills lab, and distance learning

experiences as a student, facilitated my growth, knowledge, and understanding of literacy throughout this course, as I found myself relating my own experiences to those presented in the required readings, chats, handouts, and assignments. Larson and Marsh (2015) aided my understanding that society, culture, and environment influence a child’s literacy development. Specifically, New Literacy Studies (NLS) taught me that literacy is achieved by participating in the world, which includes learning from both

¨The New Literacy¨ How much do you write or text on your phone, is it helping your academic writing or making it worse? Mashable tells us that, “the average teenager sends more than 3,000 texts per month. That's more than six texts per waking hour.¨ In the article, ¨The New Literacy¨, Clive Thompson explains, texting and online writing makes your academic writing better because, students write more, they write for audiences, and are learning new ways to write. Online media is pushing literacy

Cynthia Haven is the writer of an article called “The New Literacy: Stanford study finds richness and complexity in students' writing” that is a study based on the amount of writing college students do. She followed students at Stanford during their undergraduate years and the first year after that. She discovered that today’s students are writing more than any generation before it. Cynthia had the students she was studying submit all of the writing they did, academic or personal. She found that

There is a prevalence of underprepared students entering postsecondary education. The College Board (2013) reports as many as 57% of students completing the SAT exams did not meet the benchmark for college level coursework; this figure may present low, as it does not necessarily include the countless students who do not attempt the test, as they are planning on attending postsecondary schools not requiring these scores for admissions or not planning on continuing their education after high school