#Leander presents many interesting points about AI and concerns with fake news being produced and proliferated by AI bots, as well as misuse and abuse in the systematic harvesting, use, and manipulation of user data and behavior by corporations. These have a dramatic influence online. #edu800fall25

The idea of multiliteracies is appealing and addresses the concept that pedagogy must change and adapt with the available technology. Education needs to be transformed to account for new cultural and linguistic diversity due to global networking among students and applications #Mills #edu800fall25

What is literacy? One of the bigger problems is technology is changing so quickly, it's challenging to define what literacy actually entails. #Mills points out that researchers need to limit what they consider literacy. A broad interpretation poses as many challenges as a narrow one. #edu800fall25

#Mills calls for a new understanding of genre and textual features, which indicates the evolution of the meaning of literacy and the importance of "new literacies" in digital forms like wikis, blogs, databases, and online news and even newer digital media, like blogposts and videos. #edu800fall25

#Knobel links beautifully with our understanding of motivation and engagement. The example of Cassie undertaking tasks significantly more advanced than expected within the classroom demonstrates a connection to Bronfenbrenner's ecology of learning and key concepts of motivation theory. #edu800fall25

Great point in #Knobel -- quality is being judged by groups rather than experts. We've evolved beyond the point where a single intelligent and respected individual can discount the ideas of another. Historically, this has been a problem, but opens doors to those not "formally trained" #edu800fall25

"New literacies" are collaborative and participatory social events, whereas conventional literacy was not -- this is a powerful point because we can easily and rapidly interact, whereas with print it involved a significant process to make comments and collaboration was limited. #edu800fall25 #Knobel

"5. Critical literacies are central to new literacies" (Leu & Forzani, 2012, p. 79) should really be the first principle. Without these critical literacies, the new literacies, either uppercase or lowercase, will be inaccessible. Educators must remember critical literacy. #edu800fall25 #Leu

The concept that literacy is deictic is truly engaging for me. I've long considered language deictic because it evolves and changes over time, so I am intrigued by considering literacy (in the sense of gaining new knowledge about a topic/concept/technology) as deictic. #Leu #edu800fall25

This quote connects with me and using yet another new system for our course: "Apparently, new literacies were required, and these often took time to learn or, sometimes, restricted the full use of a tool like Glogster" (Leu & Forzani, 2012, p. 77). I have to start over, again. #edu800fall25 #Leu