Digital Literacies with Karen Blumberg

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● 3rd grader deleted all the editors to the Newspaper's shared Google Site.

● 8th graders teasing each other by changing fonts on a shared Google Doc.

● 6th graders friending each other on our in-house social network.

● 5th graders cleaning up their lunch table.

Recent teachable moments

The new media literacies: a set of cultural competencies and social skills that young people need in the new media landscape.

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

Henry Jenkins, et al.

“License to Cull”

NCTE Definition of 21c Literacies● Develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology;

● Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships with others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought;

● Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes;

● Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information;

● Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts;

● Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments.