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Updating online profiles, texting, posting selfies, downloading music, surfing the web, and tweeting while walking along the street or sitting in class are all continual reminders that youth live multimodal lives. Less and less are communication, learning, and comprehension limited to traditional modes of the printed word or text and to more traditional media (although all of these text genres have been multimodal); instead, words are usually nested with visual images/graphics, aural/oral modes, animation, etc. and digital technologies. Indeed, in the popular culture landscape, adults appear to take note of youth’s multimodal literacies and multiple ways of knowing—from video games to websites that purposefully embed three key features of ‘new literacies’ (1) social/interactive (2) multiple modal (e.g. audio, video, print/text), and (3) creative license and expression (e.g. blogs, posts, links, fan fiction/sites). These new skills that transmediated, multimodal texts bring afford young people the opportunity to become active consumers-producers-composers of knowledge and information in a way that can directly and immediately affect and reach others everywhere, everyday.
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McLean, C., Rowsell, J., Lapp, D. (2014). Making School Relevant: Adding New Literacies to the Policy Agenda. In: Sanford, K., Rogers, T., Kendrick, M. (eds) Everyday Youth Literacies. Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, vol 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-03-1_11
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