new london group

The new london group is a group founed in 1996. This group believes that with the progression of civilization and diversity, the world of language and communication should be view more broadly. They seek to create this new literacy and impliment it to the classroom setting.

The text focuses on the understanding of literacy and literacy teaching and learning to included negotiating and multiplicity of discourses. The two aspect that they draw from is that, media is growingand it highly influences literacy and to expand the idea of teaching for diversity. They also call for a change in their social, personal and public life. The postfordism era forces the work place to learn and be thought due to the need of mass production and profiteiring. The brought new changes to literacy, sucah as the electronic mailing, but this change doesn't strive or wasn't intentional for the purpose of diversity.

The text believe that students need to develop worklife communications skills to be able to engage with others and to negotiate. Teachers are helpful for this reason because they don't aim to teach students to be compliant workers. This task is diffecult to achieve because of the public viewing of children and the public influences. Children are influence by this media and these accomodities that it influence their literacy, makking it hard to incorporate different discourses. Though this does help with the discourse of personal life.

They brought on the idea of design and how proper designs of teachign can hellp aid ddifferent discourses. The idea emphasizes meaning-making and not something governed by static rules. Design is the idea of meaning making, and the making new of old. The text touches on ten different design types. 

don't bad teachers ruin the whole concept? elimination of bad teachers to allow this idea to have a chance of succeeding?