The New Media Literacies

I watched the video New Media Literacies. This video discusses the skills you need to have to be able to participate in the vast opportunities on the internet.

The skills listed in this video are: Judgement, negotiation, appropriation, play, multi-tasking, transmedia navigation, simulation, connective intelligenece, performance, distributed cognition, and visualization. I feel that all these skills are 21st century and people do need to obtain most, if not all of these skills to be successful.

I feel that I obtain quiet a few of the skills. The skills I believe I have are judgement, negotiation, play, multi-tasking, and visualization. I am semi successful when it comes to technology but I feel that if I were to obtain all of these skills I would be a very successful technological teacher.



In addition to viewing the video I did more research into the New Media Literacies Project. I found a overview of the project on this site New Media Literacies. I learned that this project at MIT that explores how to equip students with social skills cultural competencies that are required to raise understanding on the importance of being technologically literate.

Also, the White Paper identifies three of the major challenges these are: the participation gap, transparency problem and ethics challenge. The participation gap is the unequal access to opportunities, skills, experience, and knowledge that will prepare youth for participation. The Transparency problem is, the challenges that young people face in learning to see clearly the ways that media shape perceptions of the world. Also, the ethics challege is considered to be, the breakdown of traditional forms of professional training and socialization that might prepare young people their increasing roles in public media makers. All three of these challenges are critical to this project. Once these gaps and challenges are taking care of, young people will be able to grasp the skills needed for the 21st century.