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Clive Thompson on the New Literacy on 2009-11-20
- kids today can't write—and technology is to blame.
- "I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we
  haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't
  killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold
  new directions
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- - young people today write far more than any generation before them
  - Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that
    wasn't a school assignment
  - Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what
    rhetoricians call kairos—assessing their audience and adapting their
    tone and technique to best get their point across.
  - (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense
    of what constitutes good
  - students today almost always write for an audience
  - (something virtually no one in my
    generation did) gives them a different sense
    
    of what
    constitutes good
  - know is that knowing who you're writing for and why you're writing might be the
    most crucial factor of all.
Op-Ed Columnist - The New Untouchables - NYTimes.com on 2009-10-23
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  Last summer I attended a talk by Michelle Rhee, the dynamic chancellor of
  public schools in Washington. Just before the session began, a man came up,
  introduced himself as Todd Martin and whispered to me that what Rhee was about
  to
- speak about — our struggling public schools — was actually a critical,
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- - There’s something to that. While the subprime mortgage mess involved a huge
    ethical breakdown on Wall Street, it coincided with an education breakdown on
    Main Street
Student Summary on 2009-10-19
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21st Century Literacies on 2009-10-18
- Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
  Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively
  and cross-culturally
  Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of
  purposes
  Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information
  Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
  Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex
  environments
Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren't Google Wave) - Collaboration - Lifehacker on 2009-10-06
PowerPoint Hell: Don't Let This Happen to Your Next Presentation - PC World on 2009-10-06
Curriculum resources - edna.edu.au on 2009-10-06
orechresearch - home on 2009-10-06
YouTube - Apollo 13 Square Peg on 2009-10-06
Skype in the Classroom – The EduSkypers Phonebook on 2009-10-06

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