Comments on: Representing openness http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=276 Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:08:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sky http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=276&cpage=1#comment-50839 Sky Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:08:28 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=276#comment-50839 Yeah, your point about "transferrable skill across any new media" I think is not what they're talking about, but it is critical from a learning standpoint. As a learning person, you -would- spot that! Yeah, your point about “transferrable skill across any new media” I think is not what they’re talking about, but it is critical from a learning standpoint. As a learning person, you -would- spot that!

]]> By: Clark http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=276&cpage=1#comment-50807 Clark Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:10:02 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=276#comment-50807 Thanks, Sky, that's who I was thinking of (from the talk description, not attending). I think that literacy will be both ability to interpret messages across media, and to choose how to use media to communicate. The question is how to make it a transferrable skill across any new media, and I think that comes from using different media in different ways (as well as practicing analysis across media). Trans-literacy would be this transferrable literacy, I reckon. Thanks, Sky, that’s who I was thinking of (from the talk description, not attending). I think that literacy will be both ability to interpret messages across media, and to choose how to use media to communicate. The question is how to make it a transferrable skill across any new media, and I think that comes from using different media in different ways (as well as practicing analysis across media). Trans-literacy would be this transferrable literacy, I reckon.

]]> By: Sky http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=276&cpage=1#comment-50582 Sky Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:36:01 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=276#comment-50582 The IFTF presentation you are referring to is (I believe) <a href="http://www.hum.dmu.ac.uk/~sthomas/" rel="nofollow">Professor Sue Thomas of de Montfort University, Leicester</a> - on "transliteracy." I personally think they're at the very beginning of their conceptualizing and researching, and they've written <a href="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2060/1908" rel="nofollow">an interesting article in First Monday about transliteracy</a>. I think they're onto something, but I'm not sure that I understand it in the same way they do. I believe they're really looking at how the mind integrates various experiences into a "useful" unified strategy for communication. People solidify their thinking about how to use a medium when they are young. (You and I learned to use telephones and written letters. In college we used BBS' and early email systems, like Plato-IV in my case.) Then later on as new media become available, they have to cross the boundaries and figure out how to integrate those media. In a sense they become "trans" literate as they go thru this process. Sue and researchers associated with her are trying to understand how these things happen and develop vocabulary to talk about the media, the media events, their utilization and how they fit into the users' lives. The IFTF presentation you are referring to is (I believe) Professor Sue Thomas of de Montfort University, Leicester – on “transliteracy.” I personally think they’re at the very beginning of their conceptualizing and researching, and they’ve written an interesting article in First Monday about transliteracy.

I think they’re onto something, but I’m not sure that I understand it in the same way they do. I believe they’re really looking at how the mind integrates various experiences into a “useful” unified strategy for communication. People solidify their thinking about how to use a medium when they are young. (You and I learned to use telephones and written letters. In college we used BBS’ and early email systems, like Plato-IV in my case.) Then later on as new media become available, they have to cross the boundaries and figure out how to integrate those media. In a sense they become “trans” literate as they go thru this process. Sue and researchers associated with her are trying to understand how these things happen and develop vocabulary to talk about the media, the media events, their utilization and how they fit into the users’ lives.

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