New Literacies are Everywhere!

Including the March 2009 issue of Educational Leadership. I've read the lead article: "Orchestrating the Media Collage," in which author Jason Ohler says, "New media demand new literacies," and gives the following 8 guidelines for teachers:

1. Shift from text centrism to media collage
2. Value writing and reading now more than ever
3. Adopt ART as the next R
4. Blend traditional and emerging literacies
5. Harness report and story ("creative nonfiction" "blend research and storytelling")
6. Practice private and participatory social literacy
7. Develop literacy with digital tools and about digital tools
8. Pursue fluency (not just basic literacy)

If you're interested in "new literacies" -- visual literacy, media studies, film study -- come check the issue out.

Then and now

Here’s an interesting then and now for you! (and it’s two pieces of visual literacy):
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/03/02/jonathan-kay-on-the-lesson-from-israel-apartheid-week-anti-semitism-is-now-a-creature-of-the-left.aspx

Here’s the argument: anti-semitic pictures have replaced the image of the hook-nosed Jew with the Israeli tank/gunship shooting down innocent kids. Anti-semites used to be part of the far right, now they’re aligned with the far left. Provocative and interesting.