| Description |
xiii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Donna Alvermann -- Pt. 1. What's New? -- 1. From 'Reading' to the 'New Literacy Studies' -- 2. The 'New Literacy Studies' and the Study of New Literacies -- 3. Atoms and Bits: Literacy and the Challenge of Mindsets -- Pt. 2. Staring at the Future -- 4. Faking It: The National Grid for Learning -- 5. Attention Economics, Information and New Literacies -- 6. The Ratings Game: From eBay to Plastic -- Pt. 3. Changing Knowledge -- 7. 'Digital Epistemologies': Rethinking Knowledge for Classroom Learning -- 8. New Ways of Knowing: Learning at the Margins |
| Summary |
This text describes new social practices and new literacies, along with kinds of knowledge associated with them. It shows what is at stake between 'outsider' and 'insider' mindsets, argues that education requires a shift in mindset, and suggests how and where pursuit of progressive change might begin |
| Notes |
Colin Lankshear is a New Zealand author |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Language arts.
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Reading.
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Learning.
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Electronic information resource literacy.
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Information literacy.
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Literacy -- Social aspects.
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Literacy -- Study and teaching.
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Literacy.
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| Author |
Knobel, Michele.
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| LC no. |
2002074950 |
| ISBN |
0335210678 |
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033521066X paperback |
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