AVReading

Video #1 -- Reading to Children (33:00) Video #2 -- Beatrice Doesn't Want To  (12:00)

The book study for this year’s Literacy Planning Committee is Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice. This month’s reading, written by Jim Burke focuses on 21st century literacies-- the skills and processes we believe the coming years will ask of our students. The term “new literacies” --or 21st century literacies-- is by no means new. Coined by a group of academics in the early to mid 90s, it’s very definition has become difficult to pin down. Leu et al. (2004) suggest that a hard definition for new literacies will always be elusive since they are constantly changing with the new affordances of emerging technologies. However, they do offer a running list—of sorts—that outlines some of the processes of reading as defined by this field. “The new literacies of the Internet and other ICTs include the skills, strategies, and dispositions necessary to successfully use and adapt to the rapidly changing information and communication technologies and contexts that continuo...