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The New Ethos: ���Media & Information Literacies���
Part I
Bonnie Stewart University of Prince Edward Island
@bonstewart
What does it mean to be literate ���in the 21st century?
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UNESCO Definition of ���Media Information Literacies (MIL)
Knowledge, attitudes, skills, & practices��� required to
access, analyse, evaluate, use, produce, & communicate ���
information & knowledge in
creative, legal, & ethical ways
Extend beyond information & communication technologies to encompass ���
learning, critical thinking & interpretive skills
Backdrop: Changing Culture
knowledge scarcity
knowledge abundance
open systems
public, institutional values
market values
closed systems
INTRODUCTION • Information abundance = context of MIL • Networks = structure of MIL • New Ethos = key to understanding MIL ���LEARNING IN THE NEW ETHOS
• Identities = pathways to MIL • Learning as participation
Literacy, 400 BCE = Threat to Knowledge
Literacy, 1500 CE = Control of Knowledge
Literacies, 2014 BCE = Management & Synthesis of Knowledge
Information Abundance
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Channels of Abundance = Networks
Oh good. ���So technology is the answer to
everything?
NO.
Networks are not about online/offline binaries
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Technologies do not necessarily change the ways we approach learning
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New tech + old approaches������������
new literacies
Participatory culture = new ethos
“Paradigm cases of new literacies have both new “technical stuff” (digitality) and new “ethos stuff”…what is central to new
literacies is not the fact that we can now “look up information online” or write essays using a word processor rather than a pen…but rather, that they mobilize very different
kinds of values and priorities and sensibilities.”
- Knobel & Lankshear (2007)
It’s not tech but what we DO with it – ���and each other – that makes us literate
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Being ‘of’ the web = literacies of networks
Institutions Networks
product-focused process-focused mastery participation
bounded by time/space always accessible hierarchical ties peer-to-peer ties plagiarism crowdsourcing authority in role authority in reputation audience = teacher audience = world
So. ���How do we learn ���
Media & Information Literacies in this ���new ethos?���
���Hang tight. ���
Part II is on its way. ���J