I took particular interest in this link from the Creative Economy site today:
The paper quite rightly challenges us to move on from the ‘digital divide’ focus on technological access to those of participation – the new literacies that involve social skills developed through collaboration and networking.
While the education sector is the main interest to the reports authors, I feel that organisations face similar literacy challenges in today’s networked and interdependent world. Organisations too ought be actively pursing learning and development programs that include: (extracts from the report’s Executive Summary) the ability to
- adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
- interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
- to sample and remix media content
- multitask
- pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
- follow the flow of information across multiple modalities
- networking
- negotiation
