Yeni Okuryazarlığa Genel Bir Bakış: Karar Alıcılar, Araştırmacılar ve Öğretmenler İçin Bazı Öneriler

Abstract

The nature of literacy as a sociocultural phenomenon has undergone regular and continuous changes. With the increase in information and communication technologies, the meaning of literacy has been extended to online reading and content creating from traditional printed material based reading and writing. These changes have brought about a rapid increase of information and communication technology usage rates. To be literate today requires new skills, strategies, practices, and dispositions as well as reading and writing skills based on traditional printed materials. In the light of these developments, the lowercase and Uppercase New Literacies Theory has emerged in order to explain and examine today’s literacy, which involves many perspectives. The purpose of the current study is to review the new literacy theoretical framework, give information about recent research trends in new literacy, and make some suggestions to policy-makers, researchers and teachers. In accordance with this purpose, i) the dual-level new literacy theory is examined, ii) online reading and writing research in recent years is looked at, iii) information about technology integration in literacy education is given, iv) the concept of the digital divide is discussed and finally v) various research and practice recommendations are introduced.