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Page 1: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

21st-Century Literacies21st-Century Literacies21st-Century Literacies21st-Century Literacies

1998

Page 2: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

1650 Curriculum(wealthy, male, English)

• Classic (Latin/Greek)– Drama– History– Philosophy

• Law

• Religion

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1850 Curriculum(most whites complete primary)

• Geography

• Foreign languages

• English literature

• Skills for work

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1900 Curriculum

• Students: immigration double the current level • Subjects:

– Elitist vs. inclusive– New sciences– Mass literacy

Page 5: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

2000 Curriculum(87% G12; 23% BA)

• Remember the textbook

• Follow directions

• Work alone

• Solve problems

• Complete (“cover”) the curriculum

Page 6: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

Growth Laws

Moore: # transistors on each chip doubles every 18 months

Metcalfe: network value proportional to (# users)2

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Increasing Pace of Change

Digital power = computing X

communication X storage X content

--John Seely Brown

Page 8: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

21st-century changes

• Language

• Knowledge

• Work

• Literacy

• Technology

Page 9: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

(1) Language: Decoding => Integrating knowledge from multiple sources and media

Page 10: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

Language changes

• Dying languages

• New languages, e.g, World Englishes

• Merging, e.g., Hindi & English

• global internet use

• electronic journals

• Campus Computing Project

• doubling

Page 11: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

Course functions

• syllabus

• assignments

• research projects

• questions

• articles

• data

• interactive software

• testing

• www resources

Page 12: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

Spatial Narrative

I think CD-ROMs imply a new kind of narrative...Instead of just moving through time, all of a sudden stories now move through space, so that architecture becomes the reigning metaphor.

– Spiegelman, 1995

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Stratification

• Language, gender, race, class, nationality, physical ability

• ASCII– 0, 1, 2, 3, ...– A, B, C, ...– $ and ¢– No ~, ç, ü

• Netiquette encodes male discourse

Page 14: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

2. Knowledge: Remembering => Thinking critically

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New ways of constructng meaning

• Internationalization

• Interconnections of knowledge

• Need for collaboration, cross-cultural understanding

Page 16: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

Knowledge vs. information

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

–Thoreau, WaldenDeep Blue not programmed to accept draw

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3. Work: Independent => Collaborative

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Knowledge work

By the end of this century knowledge workers will make up a third or more of the work force in the United States—as large a proportion as manufacturing workers ever made up, except in wartime.

–Drucker, 1994

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4. Literacy: Solving => Finding problems

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Changing media in life

• Book sales

• Scholarly journals

• More reading & writing in work

• Rising IQ, educational attainment

Page 21: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

5. Technology: Following directions => Continuing to

learn

Page 22: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

New media

• Email communities

• Digital libraries

• Virtual reality

• Hypermedia, Web

• Robotics

• Ubiquitous computing

Page 23: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

The computer agent

• “Come Practice Now”

• => “Compress, now”

• Non-interruptible operation

• Hears, initiates, decides, ...?

• Can we always pull the plug?

• (Asimov’s three laws of robotics)

Page 24: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

The computer hybrid

• Vivace (~ Music Minus One)

• Listens, follows, adapts, ...

• New conceptions of practice, performance, music

• Can it be too adaptive?

Page 25: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

Definition of Self

• Barbie & Her Magical House– Visual discrimination: home decorating– Cause/effect: select music– Decision-making: choosing make-up

• Materials-centered

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In the future already

X-Files: on-line forum to discuss show’s direction

Science fiction itself has remained the same. We have caught up to it...We are a science-fiction generation.

–Ray Bradbury

We can’t think far enough ahead anymore.

–Ron Shusett

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Surveillance & Control

The road to freedom via a two-way Information Highway may turn into a one-way Surveillance Street, used to condition people’s thoughts and control their behavior.

– Crawford,1994

Video surveillance is now so ubiquitous that we’re on television more than we watch it.

CSCW research (program committee)

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What will be the 2050 curriculum?

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Learning...

• Integrating knowledge

• Thinking critically

• Collaborating

• Finding problems

• Learning how to learn

Page 30: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

Return to basic questions

• What is literacy? How does it develop?

• What is its relation to schooling and life?

• What is learning?

• What is teaching?

• What does it mean to be human?

Page 31: 21st-Century Literacies 1998. 1650 Curriculum (wealthy, male, English) Classic (Latin/Greek) –Drama –History –Philosophy Law Religion

Closing

• Dramatic changes in our literacy practices

• More democracy, liberatory education?

• Technologies alone do not produce change

• Need to understand & shape these changes

• Call for dialogue