New Media Literacies - 5 Translation(s) | dotSUB

New Media Literacies - 5 Translation(s) | dotSUB

• The new media literacies are certain skills that everybody needs to deal with our culture today
• to function in the current media environment
• within the internet, with cell phones
• how to interact with information and with culture
• with just the pace of life wich is very different now that it was twenty years ago
• there are the things they need to know to become creative artists,
• to become citizens, to become workers in the future
• in the past, media literacy was all about to trying to get consumers of media
• to think critically about what they were watching
• a large numbers of people were receiving media messages
• that were created by a small number of producers
• now we start to look at the challenges for both the consumers and the producers of media
• and we look at the remodifications that that has in their lives
• we are not really just consumers anymore,
• we are also making thinks or putting stuff out there,
• whether it is just a Facebook profile or something more complex
• narratives where the reader plays a role in shaping the story
• a video or an art piece
• interactive online spaces
• anything that I might put in the internet
• so, whether than just asking questions of creators
• we are now also having to ask questions about ourselves
• What do we need to participate?
• What skills do we need now?
• One example of skill might be judgment
• where you find some information online and you need to be able
• to decide whether that information is reliable or not
• Negotiation means knowing how to enter into different groups and different spaces
• and knowing how to understand what the different norms are
• Appropiation... how do I remix and sample content in a meaningful way
• One of my favourites skills is play
• what we define is the capacity to experiment
• with the sorroundings as a form of problem solving
• Transmedia navigation
• Simulation
• Collective intelligence
• Performance
• Distributed cognition
• Visualization
• Multitasking
• They are not just skills for the classroom
• and they are not just skills for the workplace
• They are skills that involve creative expression
• They are skills that involve citizenship
• They are skills that connect people together
• in something larger than in individual levels
• Learning new skills, new competences...
• to make really great things and be full participants