Seven+Literacies+for+the+Knowledge+Society

Multimodal information processing literacy encompasses the skills and knowledge required to understand, produce, and negotiate meaning in a culture made up of words, images, and sounds. Workers need to deal with multiple representational means and forms(e.g., printed words, static and moving images, sound, texts, charts, or programming code. Critical skills include the ability to process information by using ICT generic applications – namely to create and edit texts with word processors, to do complex numerical calculations using a spreadsheet application , or to process image or audio files. This literacy relates to the ability to know when and why there is a need for information; how and where to find it in, and retrieve it from the vast infospace, and how to decode, evaluate, use and communicate it in both an efficient and ethical manner. This literacy relates to the skills required for mindful, knowledgeable , and ethical use of a wide range of communication means, using multiple communication channels ( e.g.., verbal, written, visual), in various interaction configurations (e.g., one to one, one to many, many to many), for different purposes)e.g. , social interaction, team work, collaborative creation, media consumption and/or production). Visual literacy is the ability to decode, evaluate, use or create images of various kinds(e.g., still, moving, representational, directly recorded) using both conventional and twenty-first century media in ways that advance thinking, reasoning, decision making, communication and learning. This literacy refers to people’s ability to deal, either as consumers or as produces with nonlinear knowledge representations. The visible layer of this literacy relates to skills involved in either creating or using features such as links among knowledge units or navigational aids. PIM is the process by which an individual stores his/her information items(e.g.., documents, e-mail, web favorites, tasks, contacts) to retrieve them later on. This literacy encompasses the skills and methods required to perceive phenomena as complex (recognizing multiple actors or multiple layers, or emergent behavioral patterns), to study and understand these phenomena9e.g.., devising multiple and alternative strategies, building and activating modes), and to implement the gain understanding for coping with them. While the listings unveiled the complexity and multifaceted character of the skills and knowledge required for functioning as a literate person in the knowledge society, school systems’ actually enacted curricula, still concentrate on a basic set of skills clearly attached to the tradition of the printed word technology described as the “basics,” 3R’s.
 * Seven Literacies for the Knowledge Society**
 * Multimodal Information Processing**
 * Navigating the Infospace**
 * Communication Literacy**
 * Visual Literacy**
 * Hyperacy**
 * Personal Information Management Literacy**
 * Coping with Complexity**

Pfa. 35-36 International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education, Springer 2009