New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning: Everyday Practices and Classroom Learning

by Colin Lankshear (Author), Michele Knobel (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $54.94

  Like a compass guiding you to what's important and why in this rapidly evolving field, this new edition is utterly stimulating but also thoughtful and measured. (Daniel Cassany, Literacy Researcher and Teacher, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain). Essential reading for those interested in new and emerging literacy practices, New Literacies maps the contours of on- and off-line participation and how it is transforming learning and communication. This book provides the necessary theoretical background and illustration of practice for a radical re-appraisal of how we think about literacy and literacy education. (Guy Merchant, Professor of Literacy in Education, Faculty of Development and Society, Sheffield Hallam University). The new edition of this popular book takes a fresh look at what it means to think of literacies as social practices. The book explores what is distinctively 'new' within a range of currently popular everyday ways of generating, communicating and negotiating meanings. Revised, updated and significantly reconceptualised throughout, the book includes: closer analysis of new literacies in terms of active collaboration; a timely discussion of using wikis and other collaborative online writing resources; updated and expanded accounts of digital remix and blogging practices; an explanation of social learning and collaborative platforms for social learning; a fresh focus on online social networking; and a new batch of discussion questions and stimulus activities. The importance of social learning for becoming proficient in many new literacy practices, and the significance of new media for expanding the reach and potential of social learning are discussed in the final part of the book. New Literacies 3/e concludes by describing empirical cases of social learning approaches mediated by collaborative learning platforms. This book is essential reading for students and academics within literacy studies, cultural or communication studies and education.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $3.25

  'The reader friendly and exhaustive approach to the subject matter yields a discerning and pleasurable reading on new forms of literacy...This up-to-date revision is relevant and useful' - Pragmatics and Cognition . 'The important contribution that this book makes is the way in which it urges us to rethink literacy and the influential forces that are shaping new practices. So, if you already own a copy of the first edition, you need to buy the second edition; if you own neither, buy both - and if that's not possible, buy the second edition and borrow the first! Because New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Classroom Learning is essential reading' - Literacy Journal, Volume 41 , Number 3, November 2007. The first edition of this popular book explored new literacies, new kinds of knowledge and classroom practices in the context of the massive growth of electronic information and communication technologies. This timely new edition discusses a fresh range of practices like blogging, fanfiction, mobile/wireless communications, and fan practices that remix audio and visual texts. Revised and updated throughout, the book examines: popular practices and social networks associated with contemporary phenomena, Flickr and Wikipedia Blogging, podcasting and mobile/wireless communication practices; writing practices within online fanfiction and manga-anime communities; and, the production of Anime-Music-Video artifacts and online multimodal 'memes'. The authors look at how digital technologies and new forms of mobile communications have been embraced by young people and integrated into their everyday lives. They argue that schools ignore some of these trends at their peril, and discuss how wireless mobility might be integrated effectively into school-based pedagogies and due attention paid to new literacies in teaching and learning. This new edition is essential reading for undergraduates and academics within literacy studies and for policy writers working within the area of digital literacy, new technologies or ICT development within education.