Theoretical Shifts
- From autonomous models of literacy to social models of literacies
- From Web 1.0 (focus on consumption) to Web 2.0 (focus on production)
- From websites providing information to social media platforms
- From voices of authority (ie. Cliff Notes) to dialogic interactions (multiple interpretations)
- From in-class community of readers to global community of readers
- From institutionally generated content to user-generated content.
- From teacher as transmitter of knowledge to co-learner
- From response notebooks to reader blogs and social networking sites
- From in class literature study groups to online chat rooms and discussion boards
- From putting post-its in novels to digital highlighting and commentary tools
- From dictionaries on shelves to instant access to online reference materials
- From close reading of written text to critical, analytical readings of multimodal texts
- From print-based to web-based and digital texts
- From written language (monomodal) to text with images, design elements, sound effects, video clips, and graphic elements (multimodal)
- From ink-based text that is inflexible to digital texts that can be altered by size, font and orientation
- From bold headings to hypertextual links