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[ProfessionalDevelopment 2677] People of the Screendjrosen1 djrosen1 at gmail.comTue Nov 25 08:16:01 EST 2008
PD Colleagues, Can you read fluently? Of course, you say. But maybe not. Although I meant, can you read text, I also meant, can you read screens? Very few of us can. Some of our younger students are more screen literate than we are. Is screen literacy important? If getting to meaning, and to the truth, is important, screen literacy is as important -- some would argue more important -- than reading. However, "If text literacy meant being able to parse and manipulate texts, then the new screen fluency means being able to parse and manipulate moving images with the same ease. But so far, these 'reader' tools of visuality have not made their way to the masses." I hope I have tantalized you to read this short and fascinating article on screen literacy by New York Times writer Kevin Kelley: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23wwln-future-t.html?_r=1 I would also like to invite you, when you read -- or see -- something that we in adult literacy might be interested in, to post the URL to this discussion list. If we are a community of practice on this discussion list, then let's help each other to learn new things, think in new ways. Your thoughts on the article? David J. Rosen DJRosen at theworld.com
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