Post Reading Literacies

Alane pointed me to an excellent PDF. It’s really worth reading. Even though it’s a tiny bit academic, it is eminently readable.
You can find it here.
It is called:
Why Johnny And Janey Can’t Read, And Why Mr. And Ms. Smith Can’t Teach: The challenge of multiple media literacies in a tumultuous time
By Mark Federman who is Chief Strategist for the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto
Basically Professor Federman takes us through the last time a major shift happened – from the oral to print traditions. This section alone is pretty interesting. Then he starts to describe the emerging new post-reading tradition as we shift past print literacy dominance. He points us towards a world he calls the “UCaPP world – ubiquitously connected and pervasively proximate – which is a world of relationships and connections. It is a world of entangled, complexprocesses, not content. It is a world in which the greatest skill is that of making sense and discovering emergent meaning among contexts that are continually in flux. It is a world in which truth, and therefore authority, is never static, never absolute, and not always true.”
Anyway, I found it worthwhile and feel better informed. And besides, it sounds like a fantastic world for libraries and librarians as long as we develop Librarian 2.0.
Stephen