This information from the New Media Consortium, announces a new report that will be of interest to those concerned with understanding the "digital natives" generation and literacies related to technology.
Joan Lippincott
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Call to Action on 21st Century Literacy
The New Media Consortium (NMC) has released a call to action entitled A Global  Imperative:  The Report of the 21st Century Literacy Summit.

The report details the  outcomes of an international “summit” of thought leaders in visual and digital literacy  convened by the NMC, and cosponsored by Adobe Systems, the George Lucas  Educational Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.

This world-renowned group of leaders, researchers, artists, and practitioners engaged  in two days of substantive dialog around emerging trends and issues in visual and  digital literacy and developed the action plan described in the report.    A Global Imperative outlines five strategic priorities for visual and digital literacy, their  implications, and what it will take to achieve them.  Richly illustrated with the visual  record of the meeting, the monograph provides twenty-two focused  recommendations for research, teacher credentialing, standards, curricula, and other  initiatives to meet those priorities.

The 32-page report is free, and has been released with a Creative Commons license to facilitate its use, duplication, and broad distribution.
A full-color Adobe Acrobat version of the monograph is available at
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Global_Imperative.pdf  (1Mb, 32 pp).