Our starting point is the growing concern around role of Facebook in spreading (dis)information and polarising political opinion, subsequent debates need for enhanced critical digital literacies. The article reports on a study which drew elicited data from users to explore their awareness communicative norms social networks shaping use site. analysis makes two key contributions. Firstly, we the...

In 2000 nearly 3,700 New Zealand 15 year-old secondary students took part in PISA 2000 (Programme for International Student Assessment1), a two-hour assessment to measure their reading, mathematical and scientific literacy (definitions of these literacies for PISA can be found on the back page). This same assessment was given to a sample of 15 year-old students in 31 other participating countries.

Emerging research and examples from practice support the idea of feedback literacies as socio-material competencies. Such a conception highlights contextual social aspect but neglects their cultural aspect. Reality in higher education sees an increasingly international student body, particularly at postgraduate levels. International students transitioning to new systems are likely have develope...

In this paper, I present contextualizing factors, dimensions, and key markers of algorithm literacies, paying attention to the context parenting parenthood amidst datafication. Analyzing data from “think-aloud” interviews with 30 parents children aged between 0 18, across England, draw upon media digital literacies scholarship focus, first, in on competencies, conversations, events which contex...

In light of globalization and technological developments, this article argues that educators need to cultivate multiple literacies for contemporary technological and multicultural societies, that teachers need to develop a range of literacies of diverse sorts, including a more fundamental importance for print literacy, to meet the challenge of restructuring education for a hi-tech, multicultura...

John Trimbur recently wrote that for writing centers, literacy has become redefined as " multiliteracy, " referring to the " multimodal activity in which oral, written, and visual communication intertwine and interact " (" Multiliteracies " 29). At once, broadening the term " literacy " complicates the role of the writing center in a university while clarifying how it can fulfill cross-discipli...

This paper aims at presenting the results of a study whose objectives are a) to identify activities related academic literacies carried out in Brazilian university writing laboratories; b) present LILA as collaborative network lab. research was within qualitative paradigm, including bibliographic review, document analysis labs investigated and description future actions be developed by LILA. Th...

Abstract The contemporary society has given rise to the profound need introduce in fields of pedagogy and didactics work with literacies transmutation capacity teacher as a new actor these themes, facing them challenges that allow more adequate formation contemporaneity. Our aim is reflect on potential teaching emerging literacies, based studies education literacy, order update teachers for 21s...