New Media Literacies
at 7:04 am on October 5, 2009 • Leave a comment
Henry Jenkins has identified a set of new literacies that children must master in addition to the traditional reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic. Given the digital world they inhabit, youth must develop and expand their skill set, Jenkins argues in Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture.
The new skills include:
Play — the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem solving
Performance — the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
Simulation — the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
Appropriation — the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
Multitasking — the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details
Distributed Cognition — the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities
Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
Judgment — the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
Transmedia Navigation — the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
Networking — the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
Negotiation — the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms
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