How does Transliteracy Impact Teachers and Teacher-Librarians? "Transliteracy is very concerned with the social meaning of literacy. It explores the participatory nature of new means of communicating, which breaks down barriers between academia and the wider community and calls into question standard notions of what constitutes authority by emphasizing the benefits of knowledge sharing via social networks" (Ipri, 2010).
January 20, 2011 - Lane Wilkinson One of the common criticisms of transliteracy is that "we can't describe what a transliterate person looks like." As far as I'm concerned, this is criticism is rooted in a simple category mistake: people aren't transliterate, transliteracy is a cognitive function.
As stated many times throughout readings on transliteracy, "transliteracy is the ability to read, write, and interact across a variety of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio, and film to digital social networks."
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This guide is intended to help faculty who want to incorporate information literacy concepts into their classes. Use the tabs on this guide to find activities, assessments, and links which you can use to teach the 5 core Information literacy competencies.
Their Minds! The Politics of Information Literacy Are you spending a lot of time helping your students do information research? Do they know the differences between scholarly and popular materials? Are they... using the web indiscriminately for research papers? not thinking critically? copying and pasting without citing? These are symptoms of "information illiteracy."
