Nicholas Carr argues that we live in The Shallows . Clay Shirky writes that "the literary world is now losing its normative hold on culture." So, is literacy changing? As we incorporate connective technologies in our classrooms, are the skills associated with deep reading and critical thinking being "lost"? What does it mean to be literate in 2010 and beyond?

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"Being literate in a real-word sense means being able to read and write using the media forms of the day, whatever they may be." | Ohler 2009

Do you "see the Internet not as a technology but rather as a context in which to read, write, and communicate?" | Leu et al. 2009"

"Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks." | Thomas et al. 2007

"Digital literacy is the ability to use and understand information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented from computers." | Gilster 1997

Resources:

The Handbook of Research in New Literacies | Coiro, Knobel, Lankshear, and Leu

Transliteracy | Thomas et. al, First Monday

Information Literacy: A Neglected Core Competency | Weiner

New Literacies and Community Inquiry | Bruce and Bishop

Clive Thompson on the New Literacy | Clive Thompson in Fast Company

Clive Thompson on the Future of Reading in a Digital World | Clive Thompson in Fast Company

Expanding on the Concept of Literacy | Elizabeth Daly

New Students, New Media, New Literacies | Jason Ohler

New Media Literacies | Jason Ohler

Orchestrating the Media Collage | Jason Ohler

New Literacies Research Team | University of Connecticut

Project New Media Literacies | University of Southern California Annenburg School of Communication & Journalism

Print Resources:

Coiro, Julie. Handbook of Research on New Literacies. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. Print.

Gilster, Paul. Digital Literacy. New York: Wiley Computer Pub., 1997. Print.

Jenkins, Henry. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2009. Print. (also available digitally here)

Lankshear, Colin, and Michele Knobel. Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. Print.

Kindle:

The New Literacies: Multiple Perspectives on Research and Practice | Baker, ed.

Media Resources pertaining to literacy

Transmedia Storytelling | Henry Jenkins

Core Principles of Media Literacy | National Association For Media Literacy Ecucation (see the Six Principles)

Confronting the Challenges of Media Literacy | Henry Jenkins

Research Review: Multimodal Learning Through Media | Edutopia

A Learner-Centered Approach to Multimedia Explanations: Deriving Instructional Design Principles from Cognitive Theory | Moreno and Mayer

A Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning: Implications for Design Principles | Mayer and Moreno

Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says | The Metiri Group

Visual Literacy | Peter Felten