This document discusses collaborating with new media and new literacies in classrooms. It introduces Karen Blumberg and Don Buckley, who discuss the school's new media server including Google Apps, The Gallery, The Tube, and The Social Network. It also discusses concepts like media, literacy, new media, new literacies. Henry Jenkins is quoted discussing how participatory culture shifts literacy from individual expression to community involvement. Various new media literacies are also listed, like play, performance, simulation, appropriation, and multitasking. Examples are given of how different subjects incorporate some of these new media literacies.
19. The new media literacies: a set of
cultural competencies and social skills
that young people need in the new
media landscape.
Participatory culture shifts the focus of
literacy from one of individual
expression to community involvement.
Henry Jenkins, et al.
