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Henry Jenkins Finds a New Audience in Hollywood

I'm presenting my Lolcats paper again, which addresses a metric for 21st century literacies (or whatever you want to call them), this time this evening in Alec Couros's open online class. While the (previously published) topic for my talk was "The Future of Education," I think it fits well with the content of the course to present this future as the development of these literacies. So I found this post today that links to the same video Couros links to, which is useful.

Here's where I want to go this evening. As before, I want to talk about these new literacies as languages (hence the title, "speaking in lolcats"). But when I look at presentations like the Jenkins video (and especially media literacy as it related to mass media) it seems to me that what we are being told is "which languages we need to learn" rather than "how to learn languages". So when we see the (pseudo-)list of literacies, "performance, simulation, appropriation, multitasking, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, judgment, transmedia navigation, networking, negotiation," we are being given a list of "what" without really a comprehensive treatment of "how". This is because they are being presented as (separate) skills instead of (an underlying) language. I want to cross those skills in a matrix against the elements of a (21st century) language.

The session is tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and the Elluminate room is available here.
Christine Cupaiuolo, Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning, November 24, 2009. [Link] [Tags: Usability, Traditional and Online Courses, Simulations, Books, Networks, Video, Navigation] [Previous][Next]

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