The New Literacies. Are you familiar with the Pacific Northwest tree octopus? Most likely not. Good thing there is a Web site on the Internet to tell you all about it! According to the tree octopus site, www.zapatopi.net/treeoctopus, this solitary cephalopod resides in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on North America's west coast. It is amphibious but lives in trees, spending only its early life in water. It has eight arms, complete with sensitive suckers, and a soft body, just like a regular octopus. It is intelligent and inquisitive.
Surprised? "Knowing truth from fiction on the Internet is a huge problem," says Kenneth Eastwood, superintendent of Middletown City (N.Y.) Apparently high-performing online readers are not so high performing after all. It might seem that evaluating information online-just one form of "new literacy"-and reading a book-more of a foundational literacy-are pretty much the same thing. 21st Century Skills The new literacies encompass much more.
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