After Gutenberg
The tradition of
authenticity in a new age
Chris Lott and Carol Gering, Center for Distance Education

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what is literacy in
2009?

specialized
literacy

Aural Literacy
seatbelt
alarm clock
emergency broadcast
elevator doors
train is approaching
fax machine

Data Visualization

literacy is plural

Partnership for
21st Century Skills
U.S. Department of Education
National Education Association
Nationally recognized businesses, such as:
AOL Time Warner Foundation
Apple Computer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Dell Computer Corp.
Microsoft Corporation

6 key elements of
21st century
learning
life skills
21st century content
core subjects
learning and thinking skills
information and communications technology literacy
authentic assessments

it’s easy to
recognize changes
in technology…

it’s more difficult to
recognize changes in:
communication patterns
basic life skills
learning and thinking skills
information processing

E = mc 2
economy of words

we live in a
global village

ubiquitous
connectivity

pervasive
proximity

Life Skills
consuming
producing
communicating

consuming
information

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communicating

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Walter Ong
orality – literacy – 2nd orality

2nd
orality orality
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orality – literacy – 2nd orality
Oral Tradition Literacy A Second Orality
Collective Individual Connective
A Live Wire A Closed Circuit A Power Station
Personally experienced 'Objective' (distanced, reflected) Consensus and contingency
Synchronous Asynchronous Distributed presence
Persuasion through presence (intrinsic and peer Persuasion through logic and scientific method (external Persuasion through resilience and resonance (collective
authority) authority) authority)
Authority through relationship Authority through citation Authority through continuing interaction and resilience
Improvisational Content (mixed media, re-purposing,
Improvisational Presentation/Performance \"Complete\" Authorship
expansion)
Originality Through the Telling Originality through Precise Description Originality in Presentation and Participation
Stewardship Ownership Collaborative sense-making
Associative Hierarchical (Taxonomic) Folksonomic
Shared Narrative Analysis Discovery and Personal Narrative
Clustered Linear Hypertextual
Permutative Unified, Codified, Static ('Complete' and Reproducible) Connected and Generative
Accumulation and Layering Replication and Reproduction Accretion and Organic Growth
Knowing what you can Knowing what you need Knowing enough
At the Time Ahead of Time Just in Time
Memorizing Stories Preparing Reproducible Stories Improvising Stories
Transmission Manipulation (identification and categorization) Participation (process and production)
Immediate Memory Local Storage Network Storage (access)
Technology as Necessity Technology as Application Technology as Environment
Proximal Local Global

orality – literacy – 2nd orality

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