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• 25 Sep 09
  

  Kim FLINTOFF

  literacy New librarians MUVE

  • We live in a time when the very nature of information is changing: in what it looks like, what we use to view it, where and how we find it, what we can do with it, and how we communicate it. If this information is changing, then our sense of what it means to be literate must also change.
  • The notion of contemporary literacy represents the essential skills involved in effectively accessing, processing, and communicating information. In our efforts to modernize classrooms and update curriculum, we have logically focused on technology and integrating technology to create opportunities for students to gain important technical skills. However, it's time to rethink this approach. If we can establish an expanded sense of what it means to be literate in this new information environment, then we may achieve more progress, in terms of better preparing children for the 21st century, by integrating contemporary literacy, instead of integrating technology.
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  • • Most of us were taught to read information that was available in classrooms, libraries, and in our homes. The Internet and software constitute the library for today's students. And the information from these sources grows exponentially from week to week. To manage it, students and their teachers need to learn how to use an evolving array of search tools and strategies to get valuable information from a global electronic library.
      But locating and decoding what they retrieve is only preliminary to the skills of critically evaluating information for accuracy, reliability, and bias. Traditional literacy taught us to take for granted the authority of the information we used. With contemporary literacy, students must show evidence of that authority. Students should be able to:

      • Find information within that vast global digital library that's relevant to what they are researching
      • Understand and explain what they find regardless of its format (e.g., text, images, audio, animation, or video)
      • Evaluate the information to determine its value
      • Organize that information into electronic folders or other personal e-libraries.
• 27 Mar 09
  

  Martin Lindner

  [good one] But, like it or not, this information age requires skills that force the 3 R's (reading, writing, and arithmetic) to evolve into the 4 E's (expose, employ, express, and ethics on the Internet). ... "Producing a trailer for the play is a means t

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• 11 Mar 09
  

  Cindy Marston

  literacy warlick 21st century skills

  • administrators and faculty have embraced the fact that in today's world, teaching students to become better learners involves helping them become better communicators within a contemporary information environment.
  • We live in a time when the very nature of information is changing: in what it looks like, what we use to view it, where and how we find it, what we can do with it, and how we communicate it. If this information is changing, then our sense of what it means to be literate must also change.
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  • • With contemporary literacy, students must show evidence of that authority.

    • Students should be able to:

      • Find information within that vast global digital library that's relevant to what they are researching
      • Understand and explain what they find regardless of its format (e.g., text, images, audio, animation, or video)
      • Evaluate the information to determine its value
      • Organize that information into electronic folders or other personal e-libraries.

    • As a daily part of their instruction, students must learn to respect not only the accuracy of information but also ownership and the infrastructure that the information rides on.

• 27 Jul 08
  

  Angela Maiers

  Great article and interview w/David Warlick, Chris Lehmann for Scholastic Administrator

  New Literacy and Technology

• 16 Jul 08
  

  jkrauss

  Sigh. I'm looking for a broader definition of "new" literacies than the one here - fuzzy but it includes operating in new ways with fellow learners

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• 17 May 08
  

  gordon heidel

  New Literacy

  • If this information is changing, then our sense of what it means to be literate must also change.
  • • Find information within that vast global digital library that's relevant to what they are researching
    • Understand and explain what they find regardless of its format (e.g., text, images, audio, animation, or video)
    • Evaluate the information to determine its value
    • Organize that information into electronic folders or other personal e-libraries.
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  • • Today, thanks to digitization, almost all information can be described with numbers. They are the backdrop to music, pictures, and words on our computers, handhelds, and cell phones.
    • e word processor is mightier than nation
    • In addition, with powerful forms of technology almost at our fingertips, we are able to communicate to a global audience. Many students are masters at using the Internet to access research and other information, but this can also lead them into an ethical quagmire, from plagiarism to inappropriate blogs to hacking.
    • edefining literacy and integrating that into our curriculum provides a far more relevant and potent avenue for modernizing instruction than counting the number of computers and measuring bandwidth.
• 24 Mar 08
  

  Ryan Bretag

  literacy

• 23 Feb 08
  

  jvollrat
• 11 Dec 06
  

  Clint Kennedy

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