New Literacies by Colin Lankshear, Michele Knobel, Michele Knobel

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Synopsis

The World Has Changed—So Should the Way You Teach

This thought-provoking book argues that education has failed totake into account how much the world has changed since theinformation technology revolution and that education requires atotally new mindset to become relevant. The authors describethe new social practices and new literacies associated with adigital world and offer suggestions on where change shouldoccur.

Biography

Colin Lankshear is Professor of Literacy and New Technologies at James Cook University, Australia, Visiting Scholar at McGill University, Canada, and an Adjunct Teacher at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

Michele Knobel is Professor of Education at Montclair State University in New Jersey and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Central Queensland University, Australia.