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New Literacies: Changing Knowledge in the Classroom » (2nd Edition)

Book cover image of New Literacies: Changing Knowledge in the Classroom by Colin Lankshear

Authors: Colin Lankshear, Michele Knobel
ISBN-13: 9780335220106, ISBN-10: 033522010X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Open University Press
Date Published: October 2006
Edition: 2nd Edition

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Author Biography: Colin Lankshear

Colin Lankshear is Professor of Literacy and New Technologies at James Cook University, Australia, Visiting Scholar at McGill University, Canada, and an Adjunct Teacher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Michele Knobel is Professor of Education at Montclair State University in New Jersey and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Central Queensland University, Australia.

Colin and Michele are the authors of A Handbook for Teacher Research (Open University Press, 2004), and Boys, Literacies and Schooling (with Leonie Rowan and Chris Bigum, 2001) as well as numerous other books and articles.

Book Synopsis

The World Has Changed—So Should the Way You Teach

This thought-provoking book argues that education has failed to

take into account how much the world has changed since the

information technology revolution and that education requires a

totally new mindset to become relevant. The authors describe

the new social practices and new literacies associated with a

digital world and offer suggestions on where change should

occur.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Pt. 1What's New?1
1From 'Reading' to the 'New Literacy Studies'3
2The 'New Literacy Studies' and the Study of New Literacies23
3Atoms and Bits: Literacy and the Challenge of Mindsets50
Pt. 2Staring at the Future79
4Faking It: The National Grid for Learning81
5Attention Economics, Information and New Literacies109
6The Ratings Game: From eBay to Plastic132
Pt. 3Changing Knowledge153
7'Digital Epistemologies': Rethinking Knowledge for Classroom Learning155
8New Ways of Knowing: Learning at the Margins178
References207

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