Let's step further from alphabetic literacy

Focus Quotation:

Students should not be just effective users of computers, nor be just informed questioners. . . . [I]n order to function most effectively as agents of change, students must also become reflective producers of technology, a role that involves a combination of functional and critical abilities. (Selber 182).

Examples:

http://www.teachmix.com/wlma/?q=node/107 (file link)

http://www.teachmix.com/wlma/?q=node/124 (file link)

Literacies:

Functional Literacy, Critical Literacy, Rhetorical Literacy, Visual Literacy (conceptualizing visual arguments ) (using tools for the visual)

Assignments and Resources:

The Collage Assignment

Example Collages (including a draft and a revision)