Siobhan,
Thanks for the link. It should be of great interest to anyone who
follows the emergence of new methods of education. All educators should
be actively participating in an evolving understanding of what it means
to be literate. Of course, that understanding is a moving target, since
knowledge and its application is constantly being informed by new
technologies.
BTW, I left classroom teaching precisely because of the constraints
described in the report as "barriers". I was seeking an "out-of-school"
opportunity, such as CORAL <http://www.lbcoralyi.org>, that never
materialized. However, I have not lost my passion for a new vision of
literacy that this report describes.
--
Dave Blair
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/dave
"Dont ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, and
go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard
Thurman
Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan wrote:
Sent to me through a path of listservs...
Siobhan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joan K. Lippincott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:15 PM
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] 21st Century Literacy Report
This information from the New Media Consortium, announces a new report
that will be of interest to those concerned with understanding the
"digital natives" generation and literacies related to technology. Joan
Lippincott
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Call to Action on 21st Century Literacy
The New Media Consortium (NMC) has released a call to action entitled A
Global Imperative: The Report of the 21st Century Literacy Summit.
The report details the outcomes of an international "summit" of
thought leaders in visual and digital literacy convened by the NMC,
and cosponsored by Adobe Systems, the George Lucas Educational
Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.
This world-renowned group of leaders, researchers, artists, and
practitioners engaged in two days of substantive dialog around
emerging trends and issues in visual and digital literacy and
developed the action plan described in the report. A Global
Imperative outlines five strategic priorities for visual and digital
literacy, their implications, and what it will take to achieve them.
Richly illustrated with the visual record of the meeting, the
monograph provides twenty-two focused recommendations for research,
teacher credentialing, standards, curricula, and other initiatives to
meet those priorities.
The 32-page report is free, and has been released with a Creative
Commons license to facilitate its use, duplication, and broad
distribution.
A full-color Adobe Acrobat version of the monograph is available at
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Global_Imperative.pdf (1Mb, 32 pp).
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