I took Dr. Dana's New Literacies class last year so one would think I should have a fabulous grasp on what New Literacies. I understand that literacy has to do with any type of reading or writing and when you look at the "new" part to me it implies that this reading and writing can be found through different medias or multimodal texts. Examples can include blogging, fan fiction, social networking sites, and electronic games.
In my school students are using new literacies all the time. Last year my students wrote fan fiction stories. They typed them into their own blog page and then I posted their blog page to a class blog page. The project was successful and the students had fun doing it.
Everyday students in our school are using compass learning which is a web based site where students learn and practice skills for every subject. The students in my class seem to like and usually stay on task. I assign them tasks based on their reading levels and what skills they are deficient in. Students will continue to learn using these and other new literacies. It can even be said that they might learn more from these new literacies than the old school way of a text book.
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Yep, I think you're right on track - new literacies either use new "stuff" -- like text messaging -- or create something we haven't seen before -- like widespread fan fiction sites & groups. What interests me is why it might work so well with kids -- theorists think that new literacies more closely match the kinds of literacies kids do outside of school and build on what they naturally care about.
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