New Learning

TechnologyMulti-literacy Integration

Liquid Modernity Zygmunt Bauman (2000) believes we have entered a age of liquid modernity where the change is a permanent condition of human life.

In the recent past, up until mid 20th Century the belief was that if you understand enough about the world it is a predictable place. The unexpected is an aberration.

The real complexity of the world has only been recently acknowledge with the result that meanings and understanding are constantly changing.

The world wide web has placed much of this information at our finger tips changing the power and dynamics of the world.

Multiliteracies

South Australian Department of Education and Children’s Services

The New London Group developed a theory which includes six elements of design in the meaning-making process. These elements of design recognise many different kinds of literacy which stand alone, and also combine into multimodal texts. These texts are expressed through the visual medium, through different media and in different social contexts.

The six design elements are:Linguistic Meaning - language in cultural contextsVisual Meaning - seeing and viewingAudio Meaning - hearing and soundGestural Meaning – movementSpatial Meaning - space and place

within multimodal patterns of meaning that relate to the above five meaningSouth Australian Department of Education and Children’s Services

Designers of meaning

Websites & the Internet

In 2010 there were

Over 200 million websites

1,966, 514, 816 users on the internet which is 28% of the world population. In Australia 80.1%

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

Life-stage and internet use

CCi Digital Futures 2010

Age and internet use

CCi Digital Futures 2010

Income and internet use

CCi Digital Futures 2010

As an information source

CCi Digital Futures 2010

Predictions…"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation- 1977

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, microsoft - 1981

ReferencesBauman, Z. (2000). Liquid modernity. Cambridge, England: Poulty Press.

Ewing, S., & Thomas, J.(2010). CCi Futures 2010: The internet in Australia. Melbourne: ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries

Mini Watts Marketing Group (2010) World Internet usage and population statistics

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

South Australian Government – Department of Education and Children Services http://www.earlyyearsliteracy.sa.edu.au/default.asp?id=21402&navgrp=1378

http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/thenetwork/files/pages/identity_web/multiliteracies.html