Descriptive and explanatory matrix

Definition

Literacy: Literacies:
● Writing and reading are essential tenets of literacy in any society. ● A set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes (technology).
● It includes the ability to engage in all types of communication. ● New ways to understand the world.
● It involves managing the information that is transmitted by any communication
medium.

Social approach Historical approach 21st-century skills New digital literacies

For work: First language: Digital age literacy Digital literacies:

● Multiple tasks in the workplace.
● Skills that innovate, cooperate, and
help solve problems.
● Multimodal communication tools.
● Productive workplace.
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For citizenship:
● Cultural, modern, and linguistic
homogeneities.
● Understand systems.
● Respect and accept different
identities.
● Literacy skills to positively impact
the world and ensure equality.
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● Humans as species create different
ways of expressing meanings,
which consist of symbolic systems
such as images, body paints,
dances, and gestures that depend
on the culture and complexity that
was presented in each one to be
able to publicize a communication
system.
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Start to write:
● A time when the communication
system began to change and we
went to writing which was a
restrictive way of forming meanings,
is how the new alphabetic systems
appear in different places of Africa,
such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, and
also in Asia, the new alphabetical
system begins. This writing system,
that was inequality, could only be
accessed by people with power, the
elites.
● This skill is marked by basic
literacies, focused on the
technological and scientific. There
is a lot of visual and informative
evidence, this is where
photolithography comes out. At this
time of inventions, it is important to
highlight the cultural literacy and
global awareness that began to
stand out in it, with the use of these
new technologies, our way of life
had a resounding change.
Inventive thinking
● This skill, adaptability, and
autonomy in the face of different
circumstances presented in life as
the invention of technology.
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● Represent in whole the essential
skills for managing information and
communication in the rapidly
changing and increasingly digital
world that is the 21st century.
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Locating and Filtering:
● It requires using carefully
crafted queries in targeted search
engines.
● Locating and filtering information.
● High level of critical analysis.
● Identify accurate and reliable.
resources and discard those that
are not.
For Everyday life:
● Cooperate with multiple people to
achieve the type of desired
objectives.
● The boundaries between news
creators and news consumers have
blurred.
● All people are users, producers,
and consumers in the different
media.
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Authors: Liliana Moriano, Jessica Porras.
References:
Kalantxis, M., & Cope, B. (2016). Literacies (YouTube Channel). The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Digital literacies:
● At this time the invention of the
Internet begins and new
technologies begin to emerge, such
as the radio, television, etc. This
allows for greater communication
between human beings, thanks to
the telegraph. This allows for a
change in human relationships and
to see communication as a constant
necessity.
High productivity
Effective communication
● As this skill is a little more
recognized as effective
communication, this must be clear
and transparent to be more concise
in what is wanted to express,
however in an era like the one we
are currently in, it has evolved,
using different aspects to make
communication more assertive.
Organizing and Curating:
● This ability is also very linked with
effective communication. This ability
allows us to try a little more and use
new resources that are feasible for
our interpretation. Likewise, it is one
of the skills that allow us to adapt
more to the current world in which
we find ourselves.
Creating and Generating:
Reusing and Repurposing:
Sharing and Collaborating:
● Collective intelligence is the global
knowledge base and grows
exponentially due to collaboration,
cooperation, and competition.
● A way to manage the exchange of
intellectual property while
maintaining rights and ownership.
● It implies adding an additional
meaning to the information that has
been obtained.
● Further, enhance the benefits that
others can obtain when such
knowledge is disseminated by
sharing and collaborating.
● Creating and generating content
online became a reality for
everyone.
● Content creation is as easy as
desktop word processing.
● Take the content and rework it to
serve a new purpose.
● Intellectual growth happens and
creativity abounds.
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