#new-literacies
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Writing
2026
- Jan 20, 2026 AI Literacy, AI Illiteracy, and the Trouble With Naming the Gap
Why the phrase "AI illiteracy" sounds useful at first, but may distort how we think about literacy, access, and responsibility.
2025
- Aug 4, 2025 Turning Your Knowledge Into Your AI’s Superpower: Understanding RAG
What RAG is and how it helps AI answer from your notes and sources.
- Jul 14, 2025 How My Digital Garden Supports Digital Literacy
How a digital garden can help ideas grow and support digital literacy.
- Mar 28, 2025 Exploring the Integration of AI in Education: Skills, Knowledge, and Practices
How AI literacies fit into education and classroom practice.
2024
- Apr 20, 2024 Navigating New Realms - Generative AI and Literacy Education
How generative AI is reshaping literacy education and classroom practice.
2023
- Nov 1, 2023 Boost Your Learning Through Effective Note-Taking
How smart note-taking can improve learning and thinking.
- Sep 19, 2023 Embracing the Digital Frontier: Challenges and Opportunities of Online Phonics Modules for Pre-Service Teachers
How online phonics modules can support pre-service teachers.
2022
- Mar 2, 2022 The Metaverse and the Future of the Internet
How the metaverse could reshape the internet and its risks.
2021
- Jul 22, 2021 What will digital life be like in 2035?
What experts think digital life may look like in 2035.
- Jun 24, 2021 Digital Literacy: Developing Critical Thinking
How digital literacy and critical thinking support stronger reading online.
- Apr 28, 2021 Digitally Literate English Language Learners
Why digital literacy research needs to include multilingual learners.
- Feb 10, 2021 Threshold Concepts
How threshold concepts change the way people learn.
- Jan 20, 2021 Teaching in the Time of COVID
How teaching changed during COVID and what that revealed.
2020
- Dec 2, 2020 Shades of Gray
Why life is often more shades of gray than black and white.
- Oct 5, 2020 Exposure Builds Credibility
Why sharing your work builds credibility over time.
2019
- Nov 1, 2019 Three steps needed to empower students (& educators) as critical digital readers & writers
How readers and writers need new skills for the web.
- Apr 10, 2019 Digital Storytelling
How digital storytelling can transform classroom learning.
- Feb 6, 2019 Help define digital literacy
A call to define what it means to be digitally literate.
- Jan 30, 2019 What is digital literacy?
What digital literacy means and why the web is now a core text.
- Jan 23, 2019 Critical Media Literacy
Why critical media literacy is essential for online life.
2018
- Oct 4, 2018 Child-Computer Interactions in early childhood
How child-computer interactions fit into early childhood learning.
- Sep 18, 2018 Digitally Native Scholarship
How open scholarship changes when research moves online.
- Jul 20, 2018 Making sense of teaching, learning, & assessing with technology
How technology shapes teaching, learning, and assessment.
- Jun 5, 2018 Possible cultural & technological futures of digital scholarship
How IndieWeb ideas might reshape digital scholarship and citations.
- Mar 28, 2018 Text tradeoffs as we move from print to pixel
How text changes as literacy moves from print to pixel.
2017
- Mar 16, 2017 Three questions to consider as you develop an awesome newsletter
How I build and send my weekly Digitally Literate newsletter.
2016
- Jun 30, 2016 Three steps to become a digitally agile educator
Three steps to become a more digitally agile educator.
- Jan 1, 2016 A New Hope: Negotiating the Integration of Transmedia Storytelling & Literacy Instruction
How transmedia storytelling supports literacy instruction across media.
2015
- Dec 22, 2015 Transmedia Storytelling
How transmedia storytelling spreads a narrative across multiple media channels.
- Nov 23, 2015 Screencaptures & Screencasts in Education, Assessment, and Research
How screencasts can improve assessment and support multimodal learning.
- Nov 10, 2015 Request for Comments & Feedback on Web Literacy Version 2.0
A request for comments on Web Literacy version 2.0.
- Nov 5, 2015 Getting Started in Medium: Long form response and advanced writing practices
A look at advanced writing techniques in Medium.
- Aug 27, 2015 Tweaking WordPress to Scaffold & Empower Your Readers
How WordPress tweaks can help readers navigate and contribute.
- Jul 23, 2015 Scaffolding students (and educators) as they consume, curate, & create online
How to move students and educators from consuming to creating online.
- Jul 8, 2015 Understanding the Next Steps With the Web Literacy Map
What comes next for the Web Literacy Map.
- Apr 27, 2015 Creating and Sharing Multimodal Tutorials to Scaffold Learners
How multimodal tutorials can help learners navigate digital tools.
- Apr 21, 2015 Literacy Instruction & Learning in Virtual, Blended, & Hybrid Learning Environments
What literacy research says about virtual, blended, and hybrid learning.
- Feb 13, 2015 Request for Comments on the Web Literacy Map (Version 1.5) Skills
A request for comment on web literacy map skills version 1.5.
- Feb 2, 2015 Digital Literacy Practices for Working With English Learners (ELs)
How digital literacy practices can support English learners.
2014
- Sep 12, 2014 Evolution of a Syllabus on New Literacies Research and Practice
A revised syllabus for a New Literacies course.
- Jun 30, 2014 Work Habits of the Digital Native
How a reading association workshop explored digital texts, tools, and workflows.
- Jun 5, 2014 IT&DML Syllabus for Critical Issues & Research in New Literacies
The syllabus for IT&DML critical issues research in new literacies.
- Feb 19, 2014 Creating & Delivering a Pecha Kucha Style Research Presentation
How a Pecha Kucha format can sharpen research presentations.
- Jan 22, 2014 TechTalk 003 – Twitter, Vine, Instagram, & the #WALKMYWORLD Project
A practical overview of Twitter, Vine, and Instagram as creative and participatory tools for educators working in open online spaces.
2013
- Nov 24, 2013 Social Networking and Writing Documentary Poetry
How social networking and poetry can come together in classrooms.
- Nov 4, 2013 LRA: Research to Practice online video initiative
Launching an LRA research-to-practice online video initiative.
- Sep 17, 2013 Digital Texts and Tools to Support the Writing Process
A look at digital texts and tools that support my writing process.
- Jul 18, 2013 Innovative Teaching and Learning with Digital Media Texts, Tools & Technologies
How digital media texts and tools can support innovative teaching.
- Jul 17, 2013 Overview of Online Research & Media Skills Model, MOOC, and Badges
An overview of the ORMS MOOC and its badge system.
- Jul 13, 2013 My Philosophy, or My “Credo” in Research, Teaching, and Learning
My teaching and research credo, shaped by connected learning and launching IT&DML.
- Jul 9, 2013 Global Youth in the Digital Age
How global youth navigate engagement in a digital age.
- Jun 24, 2013 Help Create a Web Literate Planet With The Mozilla Web Literacies
How the Mozilla Web Literacies project helps build a web-literate future.
- May 24, 2013 Embedding New Literacies in the Common Core State Standards
How new literacies fit into the Common Core State Standards.
- Mar 14, 2013 Towards a Framing of Web Literacies
How web literacies can be framed as explore, create, connect, protect.
- Jan 31, 2013 Teaching Online and the Time of Screencasts
Why screencasts work well for online teaching and learning.
- Jan 24, 2013 Producing and Sharing Online Screencasts to Support Learners
How screencasts can teach procedures better than text alone.
2012
- Dec 12, 2012 Exploring Growth in Teacher Dispositions through the use of Visual Analogies
How visual analogies can help explain teacher growth.
- Dec 10, 2012 How I Write: Research, Collaboration, and Communication using online tools
How online tools support research, collaboration, and writing.
- Oct 12, 2012 How and when will students and I interact? #blendkit2012
How blended learning changes when and how instructors and students interact.
- Aug 22, 2012 Facilitating Critical Evaluation Skills through Content Creation: Empowering Adolescents as Readers and Writers of Online Information
My dissertation on critical evaluation and online content creation.
- Aug 11, 2012 Student Responsibilities and Educational Technologies
What students and teachers owe each other when using educational technology.
- Aug 4, 2012 Responsibility and Educational Technologies
A reflection on teacher responsibility when adopting educational technology.
- Jul 28, 2012 Preparing for the MA NLI 2012
We are quickly approaching the week of festivities for the Massachusetts New Literacies Institute 2012.
- May 8, 2012 Noticing, Naming, and Navigating
How students can notice, name, and navigate online texts.
- Apr 10, 2012 Voicethread and Picture Books
How VoiceThread can support reading and response around picture books.
- Mar 15, 2012 Time and Distractions While Reading Online
How time and distraction shape reading online.
- Mar 13, 2012 Millennials and Their “Hyperconnected” Lives
How hyperconnected life shapes the literate lives of Millennials.
2011
- Mar 7, 2011 Poetry, Digital Media, and Mobile Phones
How poetry, digital media, and mobile phones intersect in learning.
- Jan 26, 2011 Scaffolding Early Learners as they Search & Sift Online Information
How to scaffold young learners as they search and sift online information.
2010
- Dec 29, 2010 Raising a Digital Native
How early literacy and digital life shape a child’s development.
- Oct 27, 2010 Is Your Acceptable Use Policy Acceptable…Or Not?
How acceptable use policies shape classroom technology decisions.
- Oct 13, 2010 What is New Literacies?
A simple explanation of what new literacies means.
2009
- Nov 13, 2009 Philosophy and Pedagogy Statement Task for My Comprehensive Exams
My task for the Statement of Philosophy and Pedagogy portion of the Comprehensive Exams is included below. I have embedded my response at the bottom.
Publications
2014
- 2014 Teaching, learning, and sharing openly online
Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian; Roberts, Verena; LaBonte, Randy; Graham, Lee. (2014). Teaching, learning, and sharing openly online. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.
- 2014 Empowering learners in the reader/writer nature of the digital informational space
Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian. (2014). Empowering learners in the reader/writer nature of the digital informational space. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.
- 2014 Online content construction: Empowering students as readers and writers of online information
Book chapter · O'Byrne, W Ian. (2014). Online content construction: Empowering students as readers and writers of online information. Exploring Technology for Writing and Writing Instruction.
- 2014 Multimodal response and writing as poetry experience
Book chapter · Pet, Sue Ringler; McVerry, J. Gregory; O'Byrne, W Ian. (2014). Multimodal response and writing as poetry experience. Exploring Multimodal Composition and Digital Writing.
2013
- 2013 New literacies of online reading comprehension
Book chapter · Leu, Donald J.; Everett-Cacopardo, Heidi; Zawilinski, Lisa; McVerry, J. Gregory; O'Byrne, W. Ian. (2013). New literacies of online reading comprehension. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.
2011
- 2011 The new literacies of online reading comprehension: Expanding the literacy and learning curriculum
Journal article · Leu, Donald J.; McVerry, J. Gregory; O'Byrne, W Ian; Kiili, Carita; Zawilinski, Lisa; Everett-Cacopardo, Heidi; Kennedy, Clint; Forzani, Elena. (2011). The new literacies of online reading comprehension: Expanding the literacy and learning curriculum. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.