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Here’s a great video from members of the research team at Project New Media Literacies (MIT), which they posted back in November of 2008. They “discuss the social skills and cultural compentencies needed to fully engage with today’s participatory culture.” My notes are below. See more NML videos here.

NOTES:

The new media literacies are skills everybody needs to deal within our culture today. They are needed to function in our environment and to interact with information and culture. We need to know these skills to become creative artists, citizens and workers in the future.

What do we need to know?

• Judgement: Is the information reliable?
• Negotiation: How to enter differerent groups and spaces and to understand what the different norms are
• Appropriation: How do I remix and sample content in a new and meaningful way?
• Play: The capacity to experiment with your surroundings as a form of problem solving
• Also, transmedia navigation, simulation, collective intelligence, performance, distributed congnition, visualisation and multi-tasking

These are not just skills for the classroom or for the workplace. They are skills that involve creative expressions and citizenship. They are skills that connect people in something larger than the individual level. We need to learn new skills and new competencies to make great things and be equal participants.

PERSONAL NOTE: When I write “we,” this is to include both teachers and students. Will we also be judged in the future by what we contribute to and share on the web or is this happening already?

Special thanks to Craig Roland for sharing the video through Art Education 2.0