Multiliteracy Is The New Information Literacy Diane Fulkerson

Multiliteracy Is: The New Information Literacy Diane Fulkerson University of South Florida Polytechnic Library 2. 011 Conference November 2, 2011

Information Literacy • ACRL Information Literacy Standards: o o Recognize information need Locate the information Evaluate the information Effectively use the information Standards associated with library instruction ACRL standards become foundation for the standards for other types of literacy

Information Literacy • Information Literacy—the ability of a person to recognize a need for information and then locating, analyzing, and using the information effectively and ethically. • Assignment requiring articles and books (Photo by Paul Watson on Flickr—Creative Commons license for reuse )

Other Literacies • • Visual Media Digital Literacy Cultural

Visual Literacy • Visual Literacy--a person’s ability to understand produce visual messages(Westby, 2010) • http: //www. ivla. org/ • What can you tell me about this image? (photo from National Archives and Records Administration)

Media Literacy • Media Literacy—the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and effectively communicate in a variety of formats, including print and non-print (Considine & Haley, 1999) • http: //namle. net/ • music, films, television, videos, electronic games, items in print, web sites…

Digital Literacy • Digital Literacy—a variety of cognitive, social and motor skills enabling users to function in a digital environment(Eshet-Alkalai, 2004) • http: //www. iste. org/welcome. aspx • http: //www. digitalliteracy. gov/ • RSS Feeds, tags, You. Tube, Podcasts

What is Multiliteracy? • Multiliteracy—focuses on multimodal forms of communication and the growth of a diverse and global connected society • http: //youtu. be/lv. Qicn 2 Ww. To • Remix, reuse = new scholarship or purpose http: //youtu. be/Vn. TPv 9 Pt. Ooo? t=45 s • Semiotics • Multimodality

Multiliteracy is the new Information Literacy • Multiliteracy focuses on modes of representation that extend beyond language alone. (Cope & Kalantzis, 1999) • Information producers vs. information consumers • Combination of skills including critical thinking/analysis • User generated information • 21 st Century Literacy

Questions or Comments?

Sources • • Alexander, Bryan. (2008) Web 2. 0 and Emergent Multiliteracies. Theory Into Practice, 47(2) 150160 Association of College and Research Libraries. (2000) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, available online at: http: //www. ala. org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/informationliteracyc ompetency. cfm Cope, Bill and Kalantzis, Mary. (1999) Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures. New York: Routledge Cope, Bill and Kalantzis, Mary. (2009) “Multiliteracies”: New Literacies, New Learning. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 4 164 -195 Hattwig, Denise, Joanna Burgess, Kaila Bussert, and Ann Medaille. ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Draft 4/20/2011 http: //acrlvislitstandards. files. wordpress. com/2011/02/acrlirig_vlstan dards_draft 20110209. pdf Hull, Glynda A. and Nelson, Mark Evan. (2005) Locating the Semiotic Power of Multimodality, Written Communication, 22(2) 224 -261 Mackey, Thomas P. and Jacobson, Trudi E. (2011) Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy. College & Research Libraries 72(1) 62 -78 Pawley, Christine. (2003) Information Literacy: A Contradictory Coupling. The Library Quarterly, 73(4) 422 -452

Websites • Digital Literacy-- http: //www. digitalliteracy. gov/ or http: //www. ictliteracy. info/ • International Society for Technology in Education(ISTE)http: //www. iste. org/welcome. aspx • International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) http: //www. ivla. org/ • National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) http: //namle. net/