New Media Literacies: a language revolution.

There will be many innovations in the development and use of new media in our digitally supported worlds. Some of these will be central to entertainment and to business. It is in these areas that we have witnessed substantial innovations already. Some of these will be central to education and to the basic competencies of all citizens.

The task is to identify which these are, and then to provide students with mastery in the important media literacies and experience in functioning effectively with them, in areas such as:

• engaging critical judgement in assessing the wealth of available information
• using imagery in communications
• engaging collaborative groups in solving problems
• assessing information gathered from multiple sources
• expressing ideas in a range of media
• choosing media appropriate to tasks
• thinking in multimodal terms
• participating actively in collective intelligence communities

Attributed to Woolsey, K. (2005).  New Media Literacies:  A Language Revolution.  Retrieved 29 July 2011 from http://archive.nmc.org/summit/Language_Revolution.pdf