New literacies are the skills required to construct and appraise the wide range of mulitmodal texts (McDougall, 2007, p.130) that exist in the digital environment of Web 2.0 (Callow, 2008, p.13). These skills can be used to navigate and share information quickly and easily across cyberspace. Developing these new literacies is as important in education today as the traditional literacies of reading and writing.
References
Callow, J. (2008). New literacies, New York & Web 2.0: a little insider knowledge is a helpful thing! SCAN, 27(4), 13-16.
McDougall, J. (2007). Engaging the visual generation: some Queensland teachers come to terms with changing literacies. Screen Education(46), 130-137.
Knobel, M., & Lankshear, C. (2006). Discussing New Literacies. Language Arts, 84(1), 78-86.
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