Learning Space Design and eliannual08

Kathleen Tyner, U of Texas at Austin.

What is New Media Literacy?

"The ability to access, analyze, evaluate and produce communication in a variety of forms." The Aspen Institute, 1992.

(Colorful graphic titled A Multiliteracy Mandala, CONTENT at the center, surrounded by DIstribution, Production, Audience, Narratives, Tools, Aesthetics..)

New Media Tools:

• The Intellect
• Gestural
• Orality
• Alphabetic
• Analog
• Digital
• Pervasive

Narratives, Aesthetics (see graphic that will be online later).  PPT will also be online later.

Multiliteracy Skills need to be wide and varied to cope.

Aims & Purposes for New Media Learning

• civic engagement
• social capital
• career pathways
• academic pathways
• knowledge and skill
• problem-solving

Design Elements for Learning