The New Media Literacies Project is made by a group of staff members. Their goal is to build upon social skills. They emphasize on the best ways to equip young people with social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an a media landscape and raise public understanding about what it means to be literate according to the New Media Literacies website. They are now looking at the consumer point and producer point.
How to interact with culture and the surroundings of an individual are very important to the staff members. Students must know these media literacy skills to become something in life. It is very hard these days to go on in life without using these media skills: judgement, negotiation, appropriation, play, transmedia navigation,simulation, collective intelligence, performance, distributed cognition, visualization, and multitasking. They are not just skills for the classroom they are skills that let students express creativity. These skills connect people together upon the individual levels.
Excellent work Heather. Good job on the research. Keep up the good work.
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