Reading Reflection # 2: Emerging Definitions and New/Digital Literacies
Key Ideas Librarians pride themselves on knowing multiple literacies, the ability to understand and instruct about multiple types of literacy from media, print, digital, visual and others. And although this is true, there is still much to learn through the available research and perhaps more research to do about new literacies and how they affect learning as well as comprehension and literacy. Throughout the readings, I have found it helpful to reflect not only on my own rea ding life but also the experiences of my students. Education tends to be a case of the more we think we know, the less we do. It is imperative that educators at all levels continue to observe, discuss and research as new modalities are introduced. Baron, in How We Read Now, frames reading through three lenses: the social, linguistic/cognitive and engagement. Coiro brings us the broad view of the heuristic lens, and the idea that digital reading involves multimodel texts, inteactive links alo...
