I just received the new Educational Leadership, and Jason Ohler wrote an amazing article called “Orchestrating the Media Collage“. To summarize, he says that Web2.0 requires a different literacy that needs to stand side by side with the traditional read and write literacy. He states, “Being able to actively create rather than just passively consume new media is important for the obvious reason that it teaches literacy and job skills that are highly valued in a digital society.”
I am very excited about the potential for change if I can get the administrators to read this article. We need not only technology but access to the Web2.0 accounts this article mentions. I have shared this with my principal and an administrator in the district office. How else can I spread this message? How can I take a small chunk of this and start appyling it in the library?