The nascent field of news literacy is often described as a subset of media literacy. A review of international scholarship with regard to news literacy conceptualizations confirms that there are diverse and competing notions of its definition and purpose: while the civic component of news literacy clearly distinguishes it from media literacy and other ...
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New Strategies for New Literacies - Digital Strategy Backpack Samplers
The skills and strategies of effective communication are at the heart of literacy teaching and learning; engaging with digital technologies to communicate puts new demands on teachers and students.
Shufang Shi Strause, Nance Wilson
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Academic literacies in the digital university
Academic Literacies is an international field of study concerned with literacies and learning in tertiary education. Some recent work in this field has focused on online and elearning environments.
Goodfellow, Robin, Lea, Mary
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ScratchJr Bots: Maker Literacies for the Hearts and Minds of Young Children
This paper describes the ScratchJr Bots project aimed at helping young children develop maker literacies, which is the ability to design, program, and build technology-rich projects with developmentally appropriate tools to express themselves.
Marina Umaschi Bers +5 more
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Mediators of Inequity: Online Literate Activity in Two Eighth Grade English Language Arts Classes [PDF]
This comparative case study, framed by Cultural Historical Activity Theory and sociocultural understandings of literacy, investigated students’ online literate activity in two eighth grade English Language Arts classes taught by the same teacher - one ...
Kline, Sonia M, McCarthey, Sarah J
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This paper analyses the concept of digital literacies, focusing on recent changes in the concept of literacy itself and how the latter affect the so-called "new literacies".
Rodríguez Illera, José Luis
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Pedagogic natural language processing resources for L2 education: Teachers’ perceptions and beliefs
Pedagogic natural language processing resources (P-NLPRs) are a group of online technologies that aid teaching practices and hold the potential to enable Data-Driven Learning approaches by providing teachers and students with linguistic information ...
Carlos Ordoñana-Guillamón +2 more
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'New’ literacies: technologies and values Nuevas alfabetizaciones: tecnologías y valores
It is too easy to make light of ‘new literacies’ by saying things like: “Well, there are always newer ones coming along”. Such remarks suggest new literacies have a similar kind of life trajectory to an automobile: new in 2009, semi-new in 2010, and old ...
Colin Lankshear, Michele Knobel
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Synergistic literacies: Fostering critical and technological literacies in teaching legal research methods at the University of Waikato [PDF]
Nowadays, new law courses are not approved unless both the "needs analysis" is convincing and the "consumer demand" is certain. Needs and demands today are driven by new pressures for technological literacy accelerated by globalisation and the current ...
Havemann, Paul, Mackinnon, Jacquelin
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Research methodologies in creative practice: literacy in the digital age of the twenty first century - learning from computer games [PDF]
Literacy remains one of the central goals of schooling, but the ways in which it is understood are changing. The growth of the networked society, and the spread of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), has brought about significant changes ...
Beavis, Catherine +3 more
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