Alternative+literacy+-+Postliterate+Society


 * __Topic__**: Alternative literacy/Postliterate Society – Literacy is a concept that in recent years has become nebulous. We used to view literacy as the ability to read and write but today that definition could be expanded to include the ability to assess aesthetic information and familiarity with referential data. The postliterate society can be viewed not as a society where reading and writing no longer exist but rather where the definition of literacy is expanded to encompass so many other facets of communication that the term looses it’s meaning.

__Activities__:
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 * T ake part in weekly readings exploring the topic of alternative literacy. Each week a new subtopic will be expl ored and online discussions facilitated on Twitter using the hastag #dig_fluency.
 * Since you are taking this course independently it is up to you to lead these discussions and engage people in your topics.
 * Each week choose one of the articles listed below and one scholarly source you find on your own to talk about.
 * Whenever possible engage the author in your twitter conversation by using @ replies (many of these authors are daily Twitter users and will often respond to your questions and reactions to their work)
 * Add the source you find on your own and it’s summary to the class distributed reading database.media type="custom" key="5448327"
 * Drawing upon your own past experiences, write a reflective paper on the impact of digital literacy for the future of education.

Required Weekly Readings:
 * Eshet, Y. (2002). Digital literacy: A new terminology framework and its application to the design of meaningful technology-based learning environments. Israel: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). March 3, 2007, from ERIC database.
 * Johnson, Doug (2008, August 13). Libraries for a post-literate society I. Retrieved March 19, 2009, from The Blue Skunk Blog Web site: [|__http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2008/8/13/libraries-for-a-post-literate-society-i.html__]
 * Johnson, Doug (2008, August 14). Libraries for a post-literate society II. Retrieved March 19, 2009, from The Blue Skunk Blog Web site: [|__http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2008/8/14/libraries-for-a-post-literate-society-ii.html__]
 * Johnson, Doug (2008, September 19). In defense of postliteracy. Retrieved March 19, 2009, from The Blue Skunk Blog Web site: [|__http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2008/9/19/in-defense-of-postliteracy.html__]
 * [|__Naisbitt, John (2007).The postliterate future. The Futurist. 24-26.__]
 * Siemens, George (2004, December 12). Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age. elearnspace, Retrieved March 19, 2009, from [|__http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm__]
 * Trotter, Andrew (2007, June 26). //Technology Educators Decry New Digital Divide.// Education Week, Retrieved June 30, 2007 from, http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/06/26/43necc_web.h26.html?print=1.
 * Wesch, Michael (2008, July 29). “An anthropological introduction to YouTube” video of Library of Congress presentation. Retrieved March 19, 2009, from Digital Ethnography Web site: http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=179

Elective Weekly Readings:
 * Blummer, Barbara. (2008). [|__Digital literacy practices among youth populations: A review of the literature.__] Education Libraries, v31 n1 p38-45 Spr 2008. Retrieved March 19, 2009, from ERIC database.
 * Carr, Nicholas. (2008) Is Google Making Us Stupid? The Atlantic. Retrieved March 19, 2009, from http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
 * Evans, C,, Kahne, J., Lenhart, A., Macgill, A.R., Middaugh, E., & Vitak, J. (2008, September 16). Teens, video games, and civics. Pew Internet & American Life Project, from [|__http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media/Files/Reports/2008/PIP_Teens_Games_and_Civics_Report_FINAL.pdf.pdf__]
 * McKenzie, Jamie (2008, March). Searching for the grail: Finding good information on the Net. Retrieved March 19, 2009, from From Now On: The educational technology journal Web site: http://fno.org/mar08/searching.html
 * Okan, Z. (2003) ‘ [|__Edutainment: is learning at risk?__] ’ (British Journal of Educational Technology, 34:3)
 * Plester, B., Wood, C., & Bell, V. (2008, November). Txt msg n school literacy: Does texting and knowledge of text abbreviations adversely affect children's literacy attainment? Literacy, v42 n3 p137-144 Nov 2008. Retrieved March 19, 2009, from ERIC database.
 * Rich,, Motoko. (2008, July 27). Literacy debate: Online, R U really reading? New York Times, July 27, 2008 Retrieved March 19, 2009, from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?ref=education
 * Richardson, Will (2009, January 19). The News According to Twitter . Retrieved March 19, 2009, from Weblogg-ed Web site: http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/the-news-according-to-twitter/
 * Rideout, Victoria (2008, September). Television s a health educator: A case study of Grey's Anatomy. Kaiser Family Foundation, Retrieved March 19, 2009, from http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/7803.pdf
 * Rodríguez Illera, J.L. (2004) [|__Digital literacies.__] Interactive Educational Multimedia, number 9. Retrieved March 19, 2009, from http://greav.ub.edu/iem/index.php?journal=iem&page=article&op=view&path[]=59&path[]=81
 * Selwyn, N. (2006). Exploring the "digital disconnect" between net-savvy students and their schools.
 * Thurlow, C, & Poff, M., (2009).The language of text messaging. Handbook of the Pragmatics of CMC. Retrieved March 19, 2009, from [|__http://faculty.washington.edu/thurlow/papers/thurlow&poff(2009).pdf__]
 * Whitener-Lepanto, Vicki & Harroff, Bill.(2002, February 25). [|__Preparing pre-service teachers for tomorrow: Is visual literacy a necessary component?__] Retrieved March 19, 2009, from ERIC database.
 * Yancey, Kathleen Blake (2009, February). Writing in the 21st century. National Council of Teachers of English, Retrieved March 19, 2009, from http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Press/Yancey_final.pdf