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• 07 Oct 08
  

  Marita Thomson

  May 2008 "So, no surprise that when we incarcerate teenagers of today in traditional classroom settings, they react with predictable disinterest and flunk their literacy tests. They are skilled in making sense not of a body of known content, but of contex

  digital_literacy reading article

• 18 Aug 08
  

  Laura Lo Forti

  Teachers must recognise that our pedagogical tools are inconsistent with the skills needed to survive in a world where people are always connected to everyone and everything. In such a world, learning to think for oneself could well be more important than

  teaching reading education youth literacy

• 25 Jun 08
  

  Tami Dean

  education learning literacy technology delicious

• 21 Jun 08
  

  susan carter morgan

  Teachers must recognise that our pedagogical tools are inconsistent with the skills needed to survive in a world where people are always connected to everyone and everything. In such a world, learning to think for oneself could well be more important than simply learning to read and write.

  digiracy literacy

• 17 Jun 08
  

  Rob McCrae

  literacy pedagogy Teaching

  • In Mr Federman’s view, the quest for truth has given way to the quest for
    making sense of the world as experienced. For anyone under the age of 20, the
    world being experienced is one where the internet has always existed, and where
    everyone who matters is only a click, speed dial or text message away.
    “Tomorrow’s adults,” says Mr Federman, “live in a world of ubiquitous
    connectivity and pervasive proximity.” Their direct experience of the world is
    wholly different from yours or mine.

    
    

    So, no surprise that when we incarcerate teenagers of today in traditional
    classroom settings, they react with predictable disinterest and flunk their
    literacy tests. They are skilled in making sense not of a body of known content,
    but of contexts that are continually changing.

    
    

    Teachers must recognise that our pedagogical tools are inconsistent with the
    skills needed to survive in a world where people are always connected to
    everyone and everything. In such a world, learning to think for oneself could
    well be more important than simply learning to read and write.

• 

  ross tague

  Students today do not know life without the internet

  reading

• 16 Jun 08
  

  Jason Kern

  Array

• 15 Jun 08
  

  Olivier Le Deuff

  information_literacy

• 

  Diane Quirk

  the world is changing fast and we don't always realize how fast and what the consequences are

  literacy technology

  • Teachers must recognise that our pedagogical tools are inconsistent with the skills needed to survive in a world where people are always connected to everyone and everything. In such a world, learning to think for oneself could well be more important than simply learning to read and write.
  • In Mr Federman’s view, the quest for truth has given way to the quest for making sense of the world as experienced. For anyone under the age of 20, the world being experienced is one where the internet has always existed, and where everyone who matters is only a click, speed dial or text message away. “Tomorrow’s adults,” says Mr Federman, “live in a world of ubiquitous connectivity and pervasive proximity.” Their direct experience of the world is wholly different from yours or mine.
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  • • So, no surprise that when we incarcerate teenagers of today in traditional classroom settings, they react with predictable disinterest and flunk their literacy tests. They are skilled in making sense not of a body of known content, but of contexts that are continually changing.
• 14 Jun 08
  

  David Bill

  blog_ideas for:antonioviva

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  Laura Deisley

  New literacy

  literacy education internet learning

• 26 May 08
  

  Stephen Harlow

  Literacy Reading Information

  • to survive in a world where people are always connected to everyone and everything. In such a world, learning to think for oneself could well be more important than simply learning to read and write.

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