Regarding digital literacy, I agree with Lessig's point, that “we can't formally teach them how to speak and write in this way. We won't be able to set up classes that involve 21st-century creative learning and writing ... because that would establish institutions and institutional practices that effectively support what the law currently calls (piracy),”.

Currently, effective learning is indeed in creating content inseparable from exchanging content. so that learning for alpha generation children is considered more suitable than just reading textbooks.

• Ratna Ajeng Tejomukti

Regarding digital literacy, I agree with Lessig's point, that “we can't formally teach them how to speak and write in this way. We won't be able to set up classes that involve 21st-century creative learning and writing ... because that would establish institutions and institutional practices that effectively support what the law currently calls (piracy),”.

Currently, effective learning is indeed in creating content inseparable from exchanging content. so that learning for alpha generation children is considered more suitable than just reading textbooks.

• Ratna Ajeng Tejomukti

It was insightful to reflect upon the changes in our interactions with literacy through the evolution of humankind. Just like the Australian Aboriginals, our way of learning in India was through the Gurukul system before we were colonized by the British. In the Gurukul system, too, our ancestors learned through symbols, storytelling, practising real-life skills by living in nature and learning through observations and interactions. This changed during industrialisation when the mass form of education set in during colonization and post-independence from the British. We became mere recipients and spectators of knowledge and traditional reading and writing literacy models. It was again insightful to reflect upon how we are going back to much of the same way of learning in the present times. This time, however, it is by living in a digital world and learning using digital tools. But in a way, we are going back to using symbols, sounds, images and movement in addition to reading and writing to learn. This has indeed changed the way we are learning and implementing our skills to read and write. The de-emphasis on the use of formal language, being more inclusive of and embracing the growing use of informal or blended-cultural languages in the 21st century may help us bridge the gap in communication with our young learners, as they are the producers and consumers of these blended languages. As educators, understanding this evolution in literacy is important for us to understand our learners and how they are learning to be more effective in the ways we can facilitate their learning.

• Shraddha Goyal

As an educator, I'm thinking about the importance of understanding who our students are and how they engage with multiliteracies in their daily lives. We cannot continue to rely on pedagogies that maintain a divide between school and 'real life'. Quite the opposite, we need to find out what grabs our students' interest and imagination, and give them tools and agency to create. For example, in some schools children are using stop-motion animation to create their own narratives and bring them to life in ways that make sense to them. Children may use clay, play-do, legos or other materials to create with their hands, then manipulate the tools to create each frame, then learn how to edit, perhaps add captions, audio record their voices or add sound. However, not all children have access to this type of technology, which means that the inequities will continue to exist. Those who live in richer countries or communities will always have an advantage, and until access is universal, there is the risk of reproducing a 'consumption' model' for students with less access.
Patricia

• Patricia Ferreyra

@Patricia Ferreyra I agree with your opinion. That introducing literacy is adapted to the ability of students, especially in the current digital era. But this can apply when all students have experienced digital equalization.

In Indonesia, as an archipelago, the use of digital has not been evenly distributed. So the use of animation or the like is still far from expectations.

The introduction of multiliteracy will be suitable if used in big cities. However, disparities still occur in big cities even in our country.

It takes the support of various parties so that the understanding of multiliteracy with digital utilization is evenly distributed. Of course this is related to the economy and politics in a country.

• Ratna Ajeng Tejomukti

As we live in a generation where technology is around us and continues to develop, the individual are also exposed to these new advancement. This technology help in many ways such we can read now various news articles, videos and texts just by searching on media. But, despite of this advantages brought by technology, there are some issues that continues to grow and the problem is that some people cant ready between the lines and sometimes they believe everything posted on online without looking for facts. And this is one of the problem that should be fixed. Which is why teaching literacies to students are important.

• Venus Naomi Dauran

@Venus Naomi Dauran, I'm not sure how people learn to read between the lines. I think that schools should teach students how to develop the ability to think critically about anything they learn or experience. The other important factor to consider it the type of society one individual lives in, and whether they are allowed to access information or express their opinions freely. Some people may not have opportunities to develop their critical thinking skills.

• Patricia Ferreyra

We live in an era of rapid development of information technology. You can treat them differently, but the essence of this will not change - these are our modern realities. Today, an endless stream of information falls upon us daily and hourly, and if earlier only newspapers, magazines and television were its source, today it is difficult to imagine a person who would not use the global worldwide network.
And therefore the most important skill is the ability to understand, analyze and use any incoming information. Thus, the emphasis in education is shifting from the collection and memorization of information to mastering the skill of its correct application. This skill is necessary for a young person today for him to feel confident in society.
In our time, the concept of literacy is changing and expanding, but it still remains associated with the understanding of a wide variety of texts. Along with printed texts, a modern person can also read e-books, audio books are also very popular today, so students must learn to work with various texts: “paper”, electronic and sound.

• Shakhlo Kamalova

@Shakhlo Kamalova, I agree that schools should teach their students how to analyze the information they access critically. The next step is to decide what to do with that information. However, I think that confidence has to do with other factors. We have been socialized into societal norms that we don't necessary question or challenge - we just accept things the way they are. And sometimes society itself creates a sense of self-doubt in an individual. Think about minoritized populations in different countries, and the inequities they experience. Would knowing a set of skills be enough to assert confidence?

• Patricia Ferreyra

I wish to share a comment after reading Vanessa Bueno's Update.
I find it so crazy how MySpace, Friendster, or Path have this duality when we hear of them. They both resonate with most of us and feel very current yet they have been outlived, as new media are emerging daily. Thank you for the share and discussion, Vanessa.@Vanessa Bueno

• Asstariny Harumningtyas

Writing has allowed for the development and maintenance of large and complex societies, the formalization of both academic and practical learning as well as the ability to exchange information on a global level.

With an increasing need to write more and faster, early Roman cursive evolved. This was a popular script between the 1st century BCE and the third century CE, mainly used in shop transactions and letters.

• Amanda Mize

Writing is definitely the most prominent way that society can keep in contact with other people. Writing can be formal in some settings, and it can be informal when communicating between friends. It is fascinating to see how cursive came to be. Humans tend to be lazy and look for shortcuts wherever possible. That is why some sounds have changed in oral language as well.

• Michelle Dec

Literacy: Bazilian Portuguese Language

Brazilian Portuguese it is spoken for more than 211 million people in Brazil and in other countries around the world where Brazilian people live. This language has its origins based on two different places which are Portugal and Africa, and spread and had a development in Brazil during the period of slavery and colonization by Portugal in Brazilian lands. Brazilian Portuguese has many varieties by its original language spoken in Portugal because we mixed expressions, accents and meanings while we were being literate in Portuguese. So Brazilian people can say that they have a new and rich language based on history process, cultural aspects and more, which collaborated to the amazing and also difficult language that we have nowadays.
Once the immigrants arrived in Brazil, they started to teach the new language using simple vocabulary like clothes, food, accessories, descriptions, etc. And also with the wish to teach about God and the catholic religion, the language had its spread among the country. Today we have a fantastic and special language to call proudly our “mother tongue”.

• Jéssica Targino

Atlas are one of the most significant cultural achievements for developing literacy skills. They are called this way after a Greek mythological figure called Atlas. The same way he is holding up the Earth, an atlas is to display a vast amount of knowledge about the world we live in.
An atlas is undoubtedly a useful didactic resource for learners, in order that they know about the world they live in. Whether you love or hate Geography and History, an atlas is the perfect way to synthesize knowledge about matters that in one way or another matters to all of us.
If educators facilitate more properly the acquisition of knowledge through an atlas, by relating the information found in an atlas with daily life situations, for sure learners will not hate Geography and History classes.
However, in what particular ways could an atlas provide literacy skills? According to Dr. Aaron Willis (2020), there are six different methods (which are indeed key components of an atlas) to develop literacy skills on learners through an atlas:
1. Images: By displaying images, learners could formulate questions about what they see.
2. Charts: Quantitative data is visually displayed to be interpreted.
3. Graphs: The displayed informations depends not only on numbers but on graphic scales to represent them. Both charts and graphs can display an author's point of view that is to be interpreted.
4. Timelines: Key historical events are displayed in a chronological order and questions arise between historical events' gaps.
5. Maps: There are several types of maps, each one with a particular purpose that is to be known before using them.
6. Short texts: Their conventional focus on literacy let learners to relate what the text asks for with their own experiences.

https://www.papertrell.com/apps/preview/The-Handy-Geography-Answer-Book/Handy%20Answer%20book/Why-is-a-book-of-maps-called-an-atlas/001137012/content/SC/52caff1982fad14abfa5c2e0_default.html

https://blog.socialstudies.com/six-essential-literacy-skills-that-only-an-atlas-can-provide

• Alberto Emmanuel Conti Morales