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What is 21 st Century Literacy?

What is 21 st Century Literacy?. 21 st Century Literacy is…. Multimodal Creative and Interpretive Immediate Engaging.

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What is 21 st Century Literacy?

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  1. What is 21st Century Literacy?

  2. 21st Century Literacy is… • Multimodal • Creative and Interpretive • Immediate • Engaging 21st century literacy is the set of abilities and skills where aural, visual and digital literacy overlap. These include the ability to understand the power of images and sounds, to recognize and use that power, to manipulate and transform digital media, to distribute them pervasively, and to easily adapt them to new forms (p. 2).

  3. What does 21st Century Literacy look like? • Communication is multi-dimensional, engaging, and increasingly unbound to text. • Creativity is valued by not only using words but using video, images and sounds. • Education individualized for each learner to more fully engage students on multiple levels to create critical thinking. • Reintroduction of media and arts into the curriculum. • New teachers who use their experience as digital natives to create new pathways for communication and learning.

  4. Digital Natives • Today’s young people, who have grown up using digital literacies as forms of communication and learning. • As digital natives we have a responsibility: • To integrate 21st Century Literacy into the classrooms. • To call for training on how to implement new technology effectively in the classroom. • To spread awareness of the possibilities of using 21st Century literacy in the classroom.

  5. 21st Century Literacy Summit • San Jose, California April, 2005 • Experts, from around the world, in the field of new literacies from each of five areas: policy, research, media and the arts, K-12 education, and higher education • Conversed at a day and a half summit in which enablers and barriers to 21st Century Literacy were discussed and recommendations for advances in new literacies were made.

  6. Enablers and Barriers to 21st Century Literacy in Schools

  7. Recommendations by 21st Century Literacy Summit Panel Development of Research Agenda Raise Awareness and Visibility in the Field Make Tools for Creating and Experiencing New Media Widely Available Empower Teachers with 21 Century Literacy Skills Work as a Community

  8. What the Research Says:

  9. A vision of 21st Century Literacy

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