The reason people started writing books was to connect. Now, there are alternate modes of communicating, so how do harness that? Our kids are engaging with the world differently, and our teaching should reflect that. That's where new literacies come into play.
Principles of New Literacies:
1. Critical literacy is a crucial component
2. Engagement with multimodal texts
3. Production of counter texts or research/action projects
Role of New Literacies Teacher:
1. Be critically literate themselves
2. Reframe their assumptions about what literacy is and teach students how to “interrogate” text and media
3. Assume the role of resource managers
4. Be con-constructors of knowledge with their students
5. Function as design consultants
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