On the 21st Century literacies the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) released several statements recently, most notably the “Definition of 21st Century Literacies,” which was adopted by the NCTE Executive Commitee on February 18, 2008.
The “Definition” statment follows NCTE’s 2005 “Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies,” which addressed issues of definition and challenges of new/digital/multimodal literacies. Even more recently, NCTE released a set of guidelines, “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education,” which attemps to deal with new issues concerning fair use and copy right. And in 2007, NCTE released “21st Century Literacies: A Policy Research Brief.”
The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCCs), which meets next week in San Francisco, also released “Position Statement on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Writing in Digital Environments,” in 2004.
Tags: comp/rhet, CRLS, literacies, NCTE, new technologies, teaching
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