Abstract
Ever since the widespread availability of affordable desktop computers for domestic use, digital technologies have been referred to in terms of their transformative potential. Adoption of these new technologies has been rapid, as survey data show (CRTC, 2013; IAB, 2015; OfCom, 2014; Pew Research Centre, 2014), and in some sectors of the population they have quickly been absorbed into everyday life.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Ball, S. J. (2012). Global education inc.: New policy frameworks and the neo-liberal imaginary. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Beheshti, J., & Large, A. (2013). The information behavior of a new generation: Children and teens in the 21st Century. Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press.
Bennet, S., & Maton, K. (2011). Intellectual field or faith-based religion: Moving on from the idea of “digital natives”. In M. Thomas (Ed.), Deconstructing digital natives: Young people, technology and the new literacies (pp. 169–185). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Bennett, S., Bishop, A., Dalgarno, B., Waycott, J., & Kennedy, G. (2012). Implementing web 2.0 technologies in higher education: A collective case study. Computers & Education, 59(2), 524–534. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2011.12.022
Burnett, C. (2009). Personal digital literacies versus classroom literacies: Investigating pre-service teachers’ digital lives in and beyond the classroom. In V. Carrington & M. Robinson (Eds.), Digital literacies: Social learning and classroom practices (pp. 115–129). London, UK: Sage.
Burnett, C., & Merchant, G. (2011). Is there a space for critical literacy in the context of new media? English, Practice and Critique, 10(1), 41–57.
Burnett, C., & Merchant, G. (2014). Points of view: Reconceptualising literacies through an exploration of adult and child interactions in a virtual world. Journal of Research in Reading, 37(1), 36–50.
Burnett, C., Davies, J., Merchant, G., & Rowsell, J. (2014). New literacies across the globe. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). (2013). Communications monitoring report 2013: Broadband availability and adoption of digital technologies. Retrieved from http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/policymonitoring/2013/cmr6.htm
Carrington, V., & Hodgetts, K. (2010). Literacy-lite in BarbieGirls™. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31(6), 671–682.
Cassell, J., & Cramer, M. (2008). High tech or high risk: Moral panics about girls online. In T. McPherson (Ed.), Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected (pp. 53–76). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Crook, C. (2012). The “digital native” in context: Tensions associated with importing web 2.0 practices into school contexts. Oxford Review of Education, 38(1), 63–80.
Davies, J., & Merchant, G. (2014). Digital literacy and teacher education. In P. Benson & A. Chik (Eds.), Popular culture, pedagogy and teacher education: International perspectives (pp. 180–193). Abingdon: Routledge.
Donner, J. (2006). The use of mobile phones by microentrepreneurs in Kigali, Rwanda: Changes to social and business networks. Information Technologies and International Development, 3(2), 3–19.
Fullan, M. (2001). The new meaning of educational change (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
García-Martín, J., & García-Sánchez, J. N. (2013). Patterns of web 2.0 tool use among young Spanish people. Computers & Education, 67, 105–120. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2013.03.003
García-Martín, J., & García-Sánchez, J. N. (2015). Use of Facebook, Tuenti, Twitter and Myspace among young Spanish people. Behaviour & Information Technology, 34(7), 685–703. doi:10.1080/0144929X.2014.993428
Gee, J. (2003). What videogames have to teach us about learning and literacy. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Gergen, K. (2003). Self and community in the new floating worlds. In K. Nyiri (Ed.), Mobile democracy, essays on society, self and politics (pp. 103–114). Vienna, Austria: Passagen.
Gillen, J. (2009). Literacy practices in Schome Park: A virtual literacy ethnography. Journal of Research in Reading, 32(1), 57–74.
Greenhow, C., & Robelia, B. (2009). Informal learning and identity formation in online social networks. Learning, Media and Technology, 34(2), 119–140.
Greenhow, C., Robelia, B., & Hughes, J. E. (2010). Learning, teaching and scholarship in a digital age: Web 2.0 and classroom research: What path should we take now. Educational Researcher, 38(4), 246–259.
Hargreaves, A. (2005). Pushing the boundaries of educational change. In A. Hargreaves (Ed.), Extending educational change: International handbook of educational Change (pp. 1–15). New York, NY: Springer.
Hull, G. A., & Stornaiuolo, A. (2010). Literate arts in a global world: Reframing social networking as a cosmopolitan practice. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 54(2), 85–97.
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). (2015). VI estudio redes sociales de IAB Spain: Report of the 6th annual study of social networking. Retrieved from content/uploads/downloads/2015/01/Estudio_Anual_Redes_Sociales_2015.pdf
Jenkins, H., Purushota, R., Clinton, K., Weigel, M., & Robinson, A. (2006). Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: media education for the 21st century. Chicago, IL: MacArthur Foundation.
Lankshear, C., & Knobel, M. (2010). New literacies: Everyday practices and social learning (3rd ed.). Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press.
Laru, J., Näykki, P., & Järvelä, S. (2012). Supporting small-group learning using multiple web 2.0 tools: A case study in the higher education context. The Internet and Higher Education, 15(1), 29–38. doi:10.1016/j.iheduc.2011. 08.004
Marsh, J. (2010). Young children’s play in online virtual worlds. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 8(1), 23–39.
Mascheroni, G., & Murru, M. F. (2014). Digital literacies and civic literacies: Theoretical issues, research questions and methodological approaches. Medijska istraživanja, 20(2), 31–53.
McCaughey, M., & Ayers, M. (2013). Cyberactivism: Online activism in theory and practice. London, UK: Routledge.
Merchant, G. (2009). Literacy in virtual worlds. Journal of Research in Reading, 32(1), 38–56.
Merchant, G. (2009). Web 2.0, new literacies and the idea of learning through participation. English Teaching, Practice and Critique, 8(3), 107–122.
Merchant, G. (2012). Mobile practices in everyday life: Popular digital literacies and schools revisited. British Journal of Educational Technology, 43(5), 770–782.
Morawczynski, O. (2009). Exploring the usage and impact of “transformational” mobile financial services: The case of M-PESA in Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 3(3), 509–525. doi:10.1080/17531050903273768
Office of Communications (Ofcom). (2014). The communications market 2014. Retrieved from http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/marketdata/communications-market-reports/cmr14/
Page, R. (2012). The linguistics of self-branding and micro-celebrity in Twitter: The role of hashtags. Discourse and Communication, 6(2), 181–201.
Palmer, S. (2006). Toxic childhood: How modern life is damaging our children and what we can do about it. London, UK: Orion.
Parry, D. (2011). Mobile Perspectives: On teaching mobile literacy. Educause Review, 46(2), 14–16. Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM1120 .pdf
Pearce, C., & Artemesia. (2010). Communities of play: Emergent cultures in multiplayer games and virtual worlds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Pew Research Center. (2014). Social media update 2014. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/files/2015/01/PI_SocialMediaUpdate20144.pdf
Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon, 9(5), 1–6. Retrieved from http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/prensky%20-%20digital%20natives,%20digital%20immigrants%20-%20part1.pdf
Richardson, W. (2006). Blogs, wikis, podcasts and other powerful web tools for classrooms. London, UK: Sage.
Squire, K. (2012). Video games and learning: Teaching and participatory culture in the digital age. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Steinkuehler, C. (2007). Massively multiplayer online games as a constellation of literacy practices. E-learning and Digital Media, 4(3), 297–318.
Stevens, R., Satwicz, T., & McCarthy, L. (2008). In-Game, in-room, in-world: Reconnecting video game play to the rest of kids’ lives. In K. Salen (Ed.), The ecology of games: Connecting youth, games and learning (pp. 41–66). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Vis, F. (2013). Twitter as a reporting tool for breaking news: Journalists tweeting the 2011 UK riots. Digital Journalism, 1(1), 27–47.
Waller, M. (2013). More than tweets: Developing the ‘new’ and ‘old’ through online social networking. In G. Merchant, J. Gillen, J. Marsh, & J. Davies (Eds.), Virtual literacies: Interactive spaces for children and young people (pp. 126–141). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Warschauer, M., & Matuchniak, T. (2010). New technology and digital worlds: Analyzing evidence of equity in access, use, and outcomes. Review of Research in Education, 34(1), 179–225.
Weyant, L. E., & Gardner, C. L. (2010). Web 2.0 application usages: Implications for management education. Journal of Business, Society and Government, 2(2), 67–78.
Williams, B. (2007). Why Johnny can never, ever read: The perpetual literacy crisis and student identity. Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy, 51(2), 178–182.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Sense Publishers
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
García-Martín, J., Merchant, G., García-Sánchez, JN. (2016). Preparing to Teach 21st Century Literacies. In: Kosnik, C., White, S., Beck, C., Marshall, B., Goodwin, A.L., Murray, J. (eds) Building Bridges. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-491-6_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-491-6_4
Publisher Name: SensePublishers, Rotterdam
Online ISBN: 978-94-6300-491-6
eBook Packages: EducationEducation (R0)