Education Week: Literacy Accountability in a New-Media Age - The Diigo Meta page

• 29 Oct 09
  

  Lainie Rowell

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• 04 Oct 09
  

  Sharon Elin

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  • I want my students to be able to assess the validity of a Web site.
  • I want them to watch thought-provoking YouTube clips and understand the point of view and potential bias of the presentation. I want students to read blogs and understand how or why certain images and videos are embedded within the text. I want them to be able to listen to podcasts and write down three features of the presentation that affect its tone and message.
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  • • We also have a moral and democratic charge to teach students to understand these transformational forms of media in more critical ways. Unleashing and teaching media skills results in student empowerment.
    • Accountability in literacy must be measured in how well all students are able to navigate the sea of information now available through the Internet, and how effectively they can interpret and disseminate information in a multitude of forms.
    • Accountability in literacy must be measured in how well all students are able to navigate the sea of information now available through the Internet, and how effectively they can interpret and disseminate information in a multitude of forms.
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  Linda B

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• 03 Oct 09
  

  Debra Hicks

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• 01 Oct 09
  

  Darrel Branson

  Redefining literacy standards does not mean throwing away measures to assess whether a student comprehends the main idea of a passage of fiction or the purpose of a how-to feature article. But it should include an acknowledgment that our students are reading, interpreting, and creating new forms of media that require as much attention as books.

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  M W Jones

  It's time we quit judging students' ability to interpret and gather information based solely on their mastery of print media, writes Paul Barnwell.

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• 25 Sep 09
  

  Geordie Paulus

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• 24 Sep 09
  

  Will Richardson

  Walking through the hallways of the middle school where I teach, I inevitably hear students talk about music Web sites, blogs, Web-based photo albums, Facebook pages, and other forms of new media.
  
  If we judged these students’ ability to interpret and gather information solely based on their mastery of print media, we’d be doing ourselves—and society—a huge disservice.
  
  Oh wait, we already do just that.

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  Emily Vickery

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• 23 Sep 09
  

  Nancy Cook

  It's time we quit judging students' ability to interpret and gather information based solely on their mastery of print media, writes Paul Barnwell.

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  Teresa Pombo

  It’s time for the accountability movement to demand that schools teach and foster responsible student use of new literacy forms.

  • It’s time for the accountability movement to demand that schools teach and foster responsible student use of new literacy forms.
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  Elizabeth Haddon

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  Tim Sparacino

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  • Schools are accountable to report how well students read, but we’re testing them on print media only. It’s time for the accountability movement to demand that schools teach and foster responsible student use of new literacy forms.
  • Redefining literacy standards does not mean throwing away measures to assess whether a student comprehends the main idea of a passage of fiction or the purpose of a how-to feature article. But it should include an acknowledgment that our students are reading, interpreting, and creating new forms of media that require as much attention as books.
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  • • assess the validity of a Web site
    • I want my students to
    • watch thought-provoking YouTube clips and understand the point of view and potential bias of the presentation
    • read blogs and understand how or why certain images and videos are embedded within the text.
    • listen to podcasts and write down three features of the presentation that affect its tone and message.
    • Some may argue that it’s a waste of time to assess other forms of literacy if students aren’t “proficient” at more traditional forms of reading and writing. But here’s the reality we need to face: “Reading” video, images, and other multimodal texts demands just as much critical thinking and analysis as a challenging excerpt from Moby Dick. If we develop critical literacy skills with new forms of media, the skills can transfer to the written word.
    • iteracy must be measured in how well all students are able to navigate the sea of information now available through the Internet, and how effectively they can interpret and disseminate information in a multitude of forms.

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