New Literacies

Overview

The World Has Changed—So Should the Way You Teach

This thought-provoking book argues that education has failed to take into account how much the world has changed since the information technology revolution and that education requires a totally new mindset to become relevant. The authors describe the new social practices and new literacies associated with a digital world and offer suggestions on where change should occur.

Table of contents

1.What's New?

2. New Literacies and the Challenge of Mindsets
3. 'New Literacies': Concepts and Practices
4. New Literacies in Everyday Practice
5. News, Views and Baby's got the blues: Weblogging and Mediacasting as Participation
6. Planning Pedagogy for i-mode: Learning in the Age of the 'Mobile Net'
7. Memes, Literacy Education and Classroom Learning
8. So What?

Biographical note

Colin Lankshear is Professor of Literacy and New Technologies at James Cook University, Australia, Visiting Scholar at McGill University, Canada, and an Adjunct Teacher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Michele Knobel is Professor of Education at Montclair State University in New Jersey and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Central Queensland University, Australia.

Colin and Michele are the authors of A Handbook for Teacher Research (Open University Press, 2004), and Boys, Literacies and Schooling (with Leonie Rowan and Chris Bigum, 2001) as well as numerous other books and articles.