This course introduces the concepts of

new literacies in the 21st century as an

evolving social phenomena and shared
cultural practices across learning areas.
The 21st century literacies shall include (a)
globalization and multi-cultural literacy, (b)
social literacy, (c) media literacy, (d) finaicla
literacy, (e) cyberliteracy/digetal literacy, (f)
ecoliteracy and (g) arts and creativity
literacy. Field based- interdisciplinary
explorations and other teaching strategies
shall be used in this course.
 
At the end of the course the pre-service
teacher should be able to:
[1] demonstrate content knowledge and its
application within and/or across curriculum
teaching areas
[2] demonstrate knowledge of teaching
strategies that promote literacy skills
[3] apply teaching strategies that develop
learners’ critical and creative thinking and /or
other higher order thinking skills
[4] show skills in the selection, development
and use of variety of teaching and learning
resources, including ICT, to address learning
goals
[5] demonstrate skills in the positive use of ICT
 KEY CONCEPTS Note: During that time,
the subjects are grammar,
logic, arithmetic,
Literacy Literacy geometry, etc. which all
had written texts
The state of (composed of letters) that
literate
being able had to be studied, the
ability to read and write
to read and was therefore of prime
Literatus (Latin)
write. importance leading to the
strong association of being
“(a person) marked with letters” “literate” with the ability
“distinguished or identified by letters” to read and write.
BASIC LITERACY
Traditional or
Conventional Literacy
It is the ability to correspond visual shape
to spoken sounds in order to decode
written materials & translate them into
oral language.
Categories
The ability to recognize letters and words

“b-a-s-a”
Tanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu
COMPREHENSION
Traditional or
LITERACY Conventional Literacy
The ability to understand the meaning of
what is being read.

b-a-s-a Categories

To To be
read wet
 The ability to read (i.e., decode
FUNCTIONAL and comprehend) written materials
needed to perform everyday

LITERACY vocational tasks. This is equivalent

of reading the text “Ang bata ay
nagbabasa” and being able to
understand that basa here refers to
reading and not being wet.
 The state of being able to read,
but not well enough to manage
FUNCTIONAL daily living and employ
ILLITERACY employment tasks that require
reading skills beyond a basic
level.
 READING
/
LITERAC
Y
(2) A meaning or message being
(1) a text (consisting of symbols &
communicated by the text for the
grammar) to be read
reader to extract

Reading implies a level of understanding

 Miller’s definition of literacy---- the act of
reading implies a level of understanding.
Simply knowing how to say a word (or a
series of words) is not the same as being
able to understand what it means.

The synchronicity between decoding textual symbols and being

able to extract and understand their meaning is a necessary part
of being literate, even as the new contexts of the 21st century
change the nature of what the ‘text’ is, and what it means to
‘read’ and ‘write’.
EXPANDED
VIEWS
OF
The ability to identify,
understand, interpret, create,
communicate, and compute,
using printed & written
materials associated with
varying contexts. It involves a
continuum of learning in
enabling individuals to
achieve their goals, to develop
their knowledge and potential, knowing about something
and to participate fully in and what to do with it
their community & wider
society. (UNESCO, 2004)
It is a form of knowledge,
competence, & skills in a Knowledge
particular field or area
(Mkandawire, 2018)
New literacies are NOT new per se- as in the sense that never existed before

They are considered new

because the contexts in • Ability to translate textual
which old skills & knowledge information to images
are new, both in nature &
scope. • Verifying the veracity of
information
CASE IN POINT:
Communication Victorian era- language of
visually- the ancient flowers
Chinese, the ancient • oak leaves- strength
Greeks, and the • Purple roses- sorrow
indigenous peoples of • While lilies – QUESTION
North America used resurrection
long-distance • Pale yellow tulips& OF
communication system rosemary- memory or NECESSITY
of smoke signals remembrance
** sympathy

Visual language
RISE OF NEW LITERACIES

These so called ‘new’ literacies arose from

the increasing availability of communication
technologies that were once unavailable to
the average individual.
 RISE OF NEW LITERACIES
Increased Reach
We are communicating with more people, from more diverse cultures, across
vaster distances than ever before.

Increased Means of Communication

We are communicating in more ways and at faster speeds than ever before.

Increased Breadth of Content

We are communicating about more things than ever before.
With changes with whom, how,
and why we communicate, new
literacies are required not only to
make sense of the changes, but
also to use these new technologies
and paradigms in meaningful and
productive ways- something
required not only of students, but
of teachers as well.
Globalization
 GLOBALIZATI
ON
The process of interaction and
integration between people,
business entities, government,
and culture from other nations,
driven by international trade and
investment and supported by
information technology (Levin
Institute, 2017)
Globalization is NOT new!

SPEED OF
“GLOBALIZATION”
Not only are we interacting with,
learning from, and integrating
knowledge gleaned from other cultures
and nations at an unprecedented rate,
there is now also a sense hat no matter
where one lives on how limited is
one’s face-to-face interaction with
members of another nation or culture
and how limited one’s time is spent
online, globalization and its effect are
inescapable.
The Effects of
Globalization
Effects of Globalization (Meyer, 2000)
• Economic, political, and military
dependence and interdependence
between nations;
• Expanded flow of individual people
among societies;
• Interdependence of expressive culture
among nations; and
• Expanded flow of instrumental culture
around the world.

** the effects of globalization are multi-dimensional

Economic Dependence/Interdependence

Globalization has brought economic development to our society. By

attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), new technologies,
employment opportunities, and money have come into the country.
Kentor (2001)– foreign capital dependence increases income inequality in
four ways:

1. It creates a 2. Profits from these 3. Foreign 4. Host countries

small, highly investments are capital tend to create
paid class of repatriated, rather penetration political and
elites to than invested in the tends to economic climates
manage the host country, concentrate favorable to the
investment. thereby inhibiting land foreign capital that
domestic capital ownership in turn limit
formation. among the domestic labor’s
very rich. ability to obtain
wages.

*** the rich become richer, and the poor become poorer
Hout (1980) observes that
international dependence
(globalization) tends to suppress
adult wages, which in turn
perpetuates the role of children
as economic necessities leading
to explosive population.
Political and Military Dependence/ Interdependece

A survey conducted in 2018 found that 3 in 5 Filipinos believe that the

United States would intervene on behalf of the country in case of war
(Viray, 2018).
Expanded Flow of Expressive and Instrumental Culture

Expressive culture- deals with how a particular culture expresses itself

in its language, music, art, and the like.
Globalization encourages the monetization of these cultural artifacts and their
import/export among participating cultures.

Instrumental culture – refers to ‘common models of social order’

(Meyer, 2000), i.e. models or ways of thinking about or enacting
national identity, nation-state policies both domestic and foreign, socio-
economic development, human rights, education, and social progress.
Expanded Flow of People among Societies

Based on the results of the 2019

Survey on Overseas Filipinos,
the number of Overseas Filipino
Workers (OFWs) who worked
abroad at any time during the
period April to September 2019
was estimated at 2.2 million.
Meyer (2000) gave thee reasons:
1. Socio-economic
migration
-Filipinos travel abroad to
find better economic
opportunities
2. Political expulsion
- It has more to do with
trying to escape the political
climate of a particular county

3. Travel for the sake of

leisure (tourism)
Activities will be posted in the Google Classroom.