Coiro, J., Knobel, M., Lankshear, C., & Leu, D. J. (2014). Central issues in new literacies and new literacies research. In Handbook of research on new literacies (pp. 1-22). Routledge.
Chapter 1 in The Handbook of Research on New Literacies explores the question of how the Internet and other information communication technologies (ICTs) will impact what we view as literacy. Due to the lack of theories, constructs, and methods to answer the question of this impact, the authors argue that it is difficult to explore the rich implications of this complex research. In order to enhance the study of new literacies, the researchers are bringing together a range of scholars to fully expand the understanding of literacy for a first-time lookup conducted around the world in extensively various disciplines, with even extra contrasting theoretical frameworks and epistemological approaches.
In spite of the fact that the researchers conducted this study in various settings around the world, the researchers did not see this diversity as a hindrance. Instead, they viewed the diversity of the study as a tremendous advantage in utterly determining the vast and varied issues related to the changing nature of literacy. The authors suggest that in the future, it may benefit our understanding of literacy to include not just the acquisition of literacy or the potential ability to utilize it, but also the ability to adapt to the continuously changing technologies that emerge as the new literacy technologies evolve. The authors further proport that by recognizing the dimensions of the speed and these changes on a global scale may give a more accurate understanding of the actual rates of change.
The truth of this study is a bit staggering when one considers that in today’s standards, technology is literally evolving every day. If researchers in education are to be able to keep up with the times, we must consider the implications of emergent technology on the literacies that students will need to be able to use in order to live and work in a global economy. I can see the need to check these metrics globally for so many reasons. I often wonder if we will be able to teach these skills fast enough, but the article somewhat suggests that teaching adaptability may be the best means of making sure that we prepare our students and ourselves.
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