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New Literacies
Binge Reading Disorder
“The typical American consumes more than 100,000 words a day, and remembers none of them. When everybody’s reading, but nobody’s smarter, what value has the word?”Link.
Interesting companion site to, “Reading at a Crossroads | Disjunctures and Continuities in Current Conceptions and Practices of Reading”
Can Interactive Films Hit the Emotional Mark? A First Look at the Projects at Tribeca Storyscapes 2014 | POV Blog | PBS
Link: “The five transmedia projects on display at this second installment of Storyscapes at the Tribeca Film Festival are not only more interactive and participatory than some of their predecessors, but they are also more emotionally evocative.“
Confronting the Myth of the ‘Digital Native’
Confronting the Myth of the ‘Digital Native’ – The Digital Campus 2014 – The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Millenials often know less than we might assume about the trails left by their online activities'”
New Jorum Information and Digital Literacy Skills Collection launches
New Jorum Information and Digital Literacy Skills Collection launches: “Today, Jorum launches its long-awaited Information and Digital Literacy Skills Collection. This follows the successful creation earlier this year of a collection for Research Data Management (RDM) resources as a result of our involvement in the Jisc-funded DaMSSI-ABC project and demonstrates again how Jorum responds to the needs of its users.”
Web Literacy Standard 1.0 from Mozilla
Web Literacy Standard 1.0 from Mozilla – Boing Boing: “Mozilla has shipped the 1.0 of its Web Literacy Standard: ‘a map of the territory for the skills and competencies Mozilla and community think are important to get better at to more effectively read, write & participate on the Web.’ “
Multimodal assessment of and for learning: A theory-driven design rubric – Hung – 2012 – British Journal of Educational Technology – Wiley Online Library
Why ‘Digital Literacy’ Can’t Replace The Traditional Kind
Why ‘Digital Literacy’ Can’t Replace The Traditional Kind “We’re overestimating how much computers will teach our kids according to Annie Murphy Paul”
So You Think an English Professor’s Life Is a Cartoon – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
So You Think an English Professor’s Life Is a Cartoon – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education: “a growing army of amateur animators who have used a do-it-yourself cartoon-video Web site, called Xtranormal, to vent about the academic life. The company’s simple text-to-movie technology—’If you can type, you can make movies,’ goes the slogan—is gaining a wide following among educators as a tool for both teaching and satire.”