Republic of the Philippines

Northwest Samar State University

Rueda St., Calbayog City 6710
Website: http//www.nwssu.edu.ph
Email: main@nwssu.edu.ph
Telefax: (055) 2093657
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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

I. COURSE CODE: Prof. Ed. 8 / Prof. Ed. 9

II. COURSE TITLE: Building and Enhancing New Literacies Across the Curriculum

III. COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course introduces the concept of new literacies in the 21st century as an
evolving social phenomena and shared cultural practices across learning areas. The 21st
century literacies shall include (a) globalization and multi-cultural literacy, (b) social
literacy, (c) media literacy, (d) financial literacy, (e) cyber literacy/digital literacy, (f) eco-
literacy and (g) arts and creativity literacy. Field based-interdisciplinary exploration and
other teaching strategies shall be used in this course. Fluency in multi-literacies shall be
developed among learners to cope in today’s fast-changing world.

IV. COURSE OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, your students must be able to:

1. Recognize the benefits of new literacies as lifelong skills.

2. Realize the importance of addressing diversity issues to cope with globalization
trend.
3. Manifest mature attitude (personal and professional) in dealing with varied social
environments.
4. Create media in a variety of forms.
5. Choose and apply appropriate digital literacy trough creating blog, e-portfolio or
term paper.
6. Acknowledge interconnectedness and interdependence with natural systems.
and present ways to practice eco-literacy
7. Appreciate the different art forms and illustrate assigned form of art.

V. COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1 – Introduction to New Literacies

A. What is Literacy?
B. Traditional literacy Vs. New Literacies
 C. Importance of Acquiring New Literacies
D. Types of New Literacies

Module 2 – Globalization and Multi-cultural Literacy

A. Key Concepts
1. Globalization
2. Multi-culturalism
B. The Globalization Trend and Literacy: Issues and Concerns
C. Multi-culturalism and Literacy: Issues and Concerns
1. Diversity, equality and social justice
D. Addressing Diversity Issues and Integrating Multi-culturalism into the Curriculum

Module 3 – Social Literacy

A. What is Social Literacy?
B. Importance of Social literacy
C. Developing and Integrating Social Literacy in the School Curriculum

Module 4 – Traditional Media Literacy

A. What is Traditional Media Literacy?
B. The Role of Mass Media in the Society
C. Mass Media: Issues and Concerns
D. Effective Use of the Different Media Materials (Trimedia: TV, radio, print)
E. Developing and Integrating Media Literacy in Education

Module 5 - Cyber Literacy/Digital Literacy

A. What is Digital Literacies?
1. The Digital Environment
2. The Digital Tools
B. Types of Digital Literacies
1. Locating and Filtering
2. Sharing and Collaborating
3. Reusing and Repurposing
4. Creating and Generating
5. Organizing and Curating
C. Digital Literacy Applications in Education

Module 6 - Eco-literacy
A. What is Eco-literacy
B. Inner Ecology
C. Outer Ecology
D. Importance of Eco-literacy
E. Education for Sustainability

Module 7 - Art and Creativity Literacy

A. Art and Its Types
B. What is Art and Creativity Literacy?
C. Bringing Art Literacy in Education
VI. METHODOLOGY
1. Modular Instruction
2. Flexible Learning vis-à-vis Asynchronous Mode
 Independent study
 No need to meet together
 Learner-directed
 Materials: worksheets, handouts in PDF/MS Word format and other e-
formats; online activities

VII. GRADING SYSTEM:

To pass this course, one must accumulate at least 75 percent through the course
requirements. The maximum percentage that a student can obtain through each
requirement is shown below:

Requirement/Assessment Task Percentage

Major Course Output (Projects) 50%
Major Exams (Midterms/Finals 30%
Class Standing(Attendance, Quizzes) 20%
TOTAL 100%

VIII. REFERENCES:

As of the moment, there are no available ready-to-use textbooks/references for

the subject. Most of our class inputs will have to be taken from online sources.

On Submission of Outputs:

Submit all outputs to my messenger: Jannel Canaman Alviola; if your outputs

can’t be sent via messenger, send them thru my email: jannel.alviola@nwssu.edu.ph.

For inquiries/questions:

Please message me only within the 8:00am to 5:00 pm time period from Monday
to Friday. I will not entertain messages during night time or wee hours.

Prepared by:

JANNEL C. ALVIOLA, Ph.D.

Instructor