A literate person : what does this mean at the beginning of the 21st century?

With the rapid development of new information and communication technologies (ICT), the texts that students use, read, and create are different in many ways compared to those of our own schooling. Today, texts are more diverse, complex, and multimodal. Hence, the concept of literacy has also changed over the years and this has implications for educators of students from kindergarten to tertiary levels. Two recent books exploring the changing nature of literacy associated with the use of ICT in classrooms are: Technoliteracy: Managing Literacy, Technology and Learning in Schools, by Colin Lankshear and Ilana Snyder with Bill Green and Passions, Pedagogies and 21St Century Technologies, edited by Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe.