on Values of Social Justice and Inclusion, Cloonan on Analysing a Children’s Television Phenomenon, Lankshear and Knobel on Pedagogy for i-Mode, Labov on African-American English Vernacular, Schultz on Democratic Curriculum in a Chicago School, van Haren et al. The community itself, however, provides strong incentives for creative expression and active participation. Even traditional literacies must change to reflect the media change taking place. They need to know how to log on, to search, to use various programs, to focus a camera, to edit footage, to do some basic programming and so forth.
Educators must work together to ensure that every American young person has access to the skills and experiences needed to become a full participant, can articulate their understanding of how media shapes perceptions, and has been socialized into the emerging ethical standards that should shape their practices as media makers and participants in online communities. Among other things, they need to know how to access books and articles through a library; to take notes on and integrate secondary sources; to assess the reliability of data; to read maps and charts; to make sense of scientific visualizations; to grasp what kinds of information are being conveyed by various systems of representation; to distinguish between fact and fiction, fact and opinion; to construct arguments and marshal evidence. We are just beginning to identify and assess these emerging sets of social skills and cultural competencies. If anything, these traditional skills assume even greater importance as students venture beyond collections that have been screened by librarians and into the more open space of the web.
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