Lankshear, Colin

New literacies / Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel - Third edition - Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill Open University, 2011. - xv, 275 pages : 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references

From "reading" to "new" literacies --
Literacies : practices, discourse, and encoded texts --
"New" literacies : technologies and values --
New literacies and social practices of digital remixing --
Blogs and wikis : participatory and collaborative literacy practices --
Everyday practices of online social networking --
Social learning, "push" and "pull," and building platforms for collaborative learning --
Social learning and new literacies in formal education.


This text describes new social practices and new literacies, along with the kinds of knowledge associated with them. It shows what is at stake between 'outsider' and 'insider' mindsets, argues that education requires a shift in mindset, and suggests how and where the pursuit of progressive change might begin.

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Literacy --Social aspects.
Media literacy.
Internet literacy.

LC149 / L26 2011