12.+Integrating+Literacies

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I like the way he illustrated the difference between being knowledgeable, knowing a bunch of stuff and knowledge-able, being able to analyze, criticize and create. A knowledgeable student studies to the test while a knowledge able student need to study for life and solve problem and create something that utilizes crowdsourcing such as the Virtual Choir or the Ushahidi project.

Media have an important role in shaping relationships. TV's role was to entertain, the content was created by a few for the mass, conversations were constructed around sound bites and commercials, to have a voice you had to be on TV. It can be characterized as a **one-way communication** when viewers are consuming information but do nothing with it or about it. Critical thinking were important to aid young people to find their identity and meaning. However, the new media allow the little guy to have a voice, for instance the "Free Hugs" Youtube video showing a young Australian holding a big sign and finally an old lady stops and hugs him. Then it became a world phenomena. For this era critical thinking is not enough. But what future generation needs is not acquiring a set of skills but to become a practitioner of knowledge.

When media change our relationships change. Before computers, I used to write a letter to my friend maybe once or twice a year. Today we frequently exchange emails and Facebook posts. Text messages are easier and shorter contacts than call someone on the phone. I need to plan ahead when I call my family in Hungary and reserve 1-2 hours. Today I walked to my boss to ask a simple work related question and ended up having a half an hour chat about SMS. True, media influences our relationships, actually not the relationship itself but the way we maintain the relationship.

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