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- noun Plural form of
literacy .
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Examples
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In the neocolonial present, imposition of new literacies is inconsistently and unevenly transforming pre-existing state bureaucratic and other literate communities while also exacerbating residual class, ethnic, and geographically based tensions that were produced during the British colonial period.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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State accountants and secretaries wielding various combinations of and competencies in numeric and written-word literacies were charged with ensuring the flow of silver to the mint in the state workshops.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Rheingold uses the term "literacies" to highlight that these features are characteristics of a collective rather than of individuals - and I don't expect Claxton would argue against that for at least some of the characteristics.
DJ Alchemi 2010
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12: 30P-1: 50P: ENG 337 - Family Literacies (classes just don't get any better than this one ... and no, "literacies" really isn't a word)
nspblues Diary Entry nspblues 2002
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It all came to a head last week when I read the futurelab document “Digital literacies across the curriculum” which is an interesting and useful document, however something in this document caused me to take my ponderings a step further …
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Gaming is its own literacy, part of the New Media literacies.
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Gaming is its own literacy, part of the New Media literacies.
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It all came to a head last week when I read the futurelab document “Digital literacies across the curriculum” which is an interesting and useful document, however something in this document caused me to take my ponderings a step further …
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Linda Shantz-Keresztes, President of CASL asks, How can basic literacies and the essential …
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Gaming is its own literacy, part of the New Media literacies.
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