This document introduces mobile literacy (mLiteracy) and how literacy is changing in the digital age. It discusses how pre-literate behaviors like turning pages and holding a book are no longer the only ways to read. It notes that we are living through an epochal time of rapid disruption to reading, literacy, learning and life due to new technologies. Literacy is described as "deictic", meaning it is continually changing as new technologies emerge and new social practices for literacy develop. The document encourages people to access, use, understand, create and share information, as well as to seek out new people and find other ways of learning.

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3. An Introduction to
mLiteracy
or reading in new ways
in new times

7. Pre-literate behaviour
• Turn pages from left to
right
• Hold a book up the right
way around
• Look at the top left hand
corner of the page

12. Epochal Times
• Rapid, disruptive changes
to reading and literacy
are happening all around
us
• Never before has a
generation lived through
such a period of profound
change to literacy,
learning and life
Donal J Leu

15. Literacy is deictic
• Need to see literacy as something
that is continually and rapidly
changing as new technologies
appear and new social practices for
literacy emerge

16. Access Use
Create &
Understand

19. Seek out
new people
Share what
you learn
Find other
ways
Doug Belshaw

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