I found that the New Media Literacies project is a research initiative based within MIT's comparitive media studies program, which explores how we as teachers might best equip young people with the social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an emergent media landscape and raise public understanding about what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world.
The goal of this program is not to replicate existing paradigms. We consult regularly with leaders in industry, the arts, public policy, journalism, education, and the nonprofit sector, trying to understand contemporary developments, identify job and internship opportunities, and pinpoint skills and knowledge which will help prepare our students for new opportunities.
Students can better deal with our culture by possessing these skills. judgment, negotiation, appropriation, play, trans media navigation, simulation, collective intelligence, performance, distributed cognition, visualization, and multitasking. These are skills that involve creative expression.
When you take material from a website you must always enclose it in quotation marks and give the source of the material that you are using. If you do not do that, you are plagiarism. You need to return to the website, identify which passages are taken from it, enclose them in quotation marks, and then cite the source (preferably with a working link.
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