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Transliteracy: Making a Meaningful Story
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Transliteracy Making a Meaningful Message
Hope A. S. Harms June 2014
Literacy
To read and write
Digital Literacy
To use information and communication technologies
Information Literacy
To locate, evaluate, and use effectively the information
Transliteracy
The ability to read, write and interact across a range of
platforms, tools and media
Transliteracy
Mapping skills to move from
one medium to another
Transliteracy
Participating in the social nature of communication
So what?
“The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who
cannot read or write,
~Alvin Toffler, futurist
“The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who
cannot read or write, but those who cannot
learn, unlearn and relearn.”
~Alvin Toffler, futurist
Understanding
from the context of the medium
Adaptability
to learn to use one format to another
So what about us?
VISION
The library creates an environment for people
to learn, to explore, to enjoy, to create, to
connect…
And
to learn, to explore, to enjoy, to create, to
connect… is the essence of transliteracy!
How?
Make a story
Your story starts here.
Inference
Identify similarities
Use Analogy
Abstraction
Understand the how
Use Analogy
Re-representation
Play and create
Use Analogy
Be interactive
Engage the Audience
Be human
Engage the Audience
Make a
meaningful message.
Resources
Gentner, D., & Colhoun, J. (2010). Analogical processes in human thinking and learning. In B. Glatzeder, V. Goel, & A. von Muller (Vol. Eds.), On Thinking: Vol. 2. Towards a Theory of Thinking, pp 35-48. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Ipri, T. (2010, November). Introducing transliteracy: What does it mean to academic libraries?. College & Research Libraries News, 71(10), 532-533, 567. Retrieved from http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/10/532.full Thomas, S., Joseph, C., Laccetti, J., Mason, B., Mills, S., Perril, S., & Pullinger, K. (2007, December 3). Transliteracy: Crossing divides. First Monday, 12(12). Retrieved from http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2060/1908 Toffler, Alvin. (n.d.). Toffler quotes. Retrieved from http://www.alvintoffler.net/?fa=galleryquotes
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