It is getting harder and harder to separate the ideas of literacy and digital literacy. The terms have become almost synonymous in referring to the ability to search, filter, and understand information in today's highly technical world.
Lateral literacy goes one step further and includes the ability to branch out, to jump from topic to topic, and to assimilate information from a number of different sources and media. However, the student can easily become lost in a universe of education for educators, search tools for the searcher, and any number of aids for those who have been left behind in a rapidly changing literary world.

Although this clip is aimed primarily at young males, it brings to light questions about our changing world and what it means to be literate in it. Perhaps we have to much faith in the "Google Generation" to navigate in this new world. Perhaps there needs to be more direction given to the form literacy takes in our future.