So many useful online resources… including The New Literacies Sampler. which Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel just put up.
The book came out a few weeks ago but people can download ity to use if they wish. Thank goodness for that as it has SO MANY excellent chapters by wonderful people. (It was great to be allowed in to publish with this bunch of brainies. It is really great that Colin and Michele managed to make a deal with the publishers to put the whole thing online. (Wonder how they diod that??)
Here is the list of contents…
Chapter 1: Sampling “the New” in New Literacies
Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel
Chapter 2: “You Won’t Be Needing Your Laptops Today”: Wired Bodies in the Wireless Classroom
Kevin M. Leander
Chapter 3: Popular Websites in Adolescents’ Out-of-School Lives: Critical Lessons on Literacy
Jennifer C. Stone
Chapter 4: Agency and Authority in Role-Playing “Texts”
Jessica Hammer
Chapter 5: Pleasure, Learning, Video Games, and Life: The Projective Stance
James Paul Gee
Chapter 6: Digital Design: English Language Learners and Reader Reviews in Online Fiction
Rebecca W. Black
Chapter 7: Blurring and Breaking through the Boundaries of Narrative, Literacy, and
Identity in Adolescent Fan Fiction
Angela Thomas
Chapter 8: Looking from the Inside Out: Academic Blogging as New Literacy
Julia Davies and Guy Merchant
Chapter 9: Online Memes, Affinities, and Cultural Production
Michele Knobel & Colin Lankshear
Chapter 10: New Literacies
Cynthia Lewis
Often the covers of text books are really awful but this one is divine as is the one Jackie Marsh and Eve Bearne also (who took the picture of the street art at the front of her book whilst on holiday.)
Eve and Jackie’s book is here.
This is some info about it:
Although social inclusion has been high on government agendas for some years, there have been few attempts at policy level to examine the issues relating to literacy education. Many social and cultural groups feel alienated from traditional models of literacy education and some learners continue to underachieve. This book develops insights into how to address these challenges.
Terms such as social inclusion and social exclusion are defined, explored and related to literacy education by contributors who are renowned in the field. They deal with issues of literacy and social class, race, gender, language and sexuality. They offer insights into current concerns in these areas, and they outline curricula and pedagogical approaches which aim to address underachievement and disaffection. The book challenges traditional deficit notions of at risk communities and argues that the onus for change needs instead to be at policy level.
The contributors are Viv Bird, Victoria Carrington, Barbara Comber, Julia Davies, Eve Gregory, Amanda Hatton, Kate Pahl and Mark Vicars.
Anyway see what you think.
