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18 Jun 09

Pathways for 21st Century Literacies

a developed website w/ a variety of sources/ideas

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writing literacy technology

14 Jun 09

Reading Online: Miss Rhumphius effect

The use of the internet by teachers and students changes the internet because its use spurs newer iterations of the tools being used.

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Miss Rumphius

13 Jun 09

Reading Online - New Literacies: Toward a Theory of New Literacies

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reading literacy new_literacies

The essence of both reading and reading instruction is change.
The ability to linguistically manipulate identity as well as the norms of conversation to fit these new electronic spaces has implications for both the development of language and conceptions of the role of technology (Crystal, 2001).
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- Many graduates started their school career with the literacies of paper, pencil, and book technologies but will finish having encountered the literacies demanded by a wide variety of information and communication technologies (ICTs): Web logs (blogs), word processors, video editors, World Wide Web browsers, Web editors, e-mail, spreadsheets, presentation software, instant messaging, plug-ins for Web resources, listservs, bulletin boards, avatars, virtual worlds, and many others.
- Traditional definitions of literacy and literacy instruction will be insufficient if we seek to provide students with the futures they deserve.
- The new literacies of the Internet and other ICTs include the skills, strategies, and dispositions necessary to successfully use and adapt to the rapidly changing information and communication technologies and contexts that continuously emerge in our world and influence all areas of our personal and professional lives. These new literacies allow us to use the Internet and other ICTs to identify important questions, locate information, critically evaluate the usefulness of that information, synthesize information to answer those questions, and then communicate the answers to others.
- more precise definition of these new literacies may never be possible to achieve because their most important characteristic is that they change regularly;
- Nila Banton Smith (1965) demonstrated how social forces at work within the United States regularly altered the nature of literacy instruction:
  
  The story of American reading is a fascinating one to pursue.... It is a story which reflects the changing religious, economic, and political institutions of a growing and progressive country.... This evolutionary progress in reading has been marked by a series of emphases, each of which has been so fundamental in nature as to have controlled, to a large extent, both the method and content of reading instruction during the period of its greatest intensity. (p. 1)
  
  Smith went on to describe different periods of reading instruction and how each was shaped by the most powerful social forces of its time. These included periods during which reading instruction was influenced by religion (1607-1776), nation building and morality (1776-1840), the education of an intelligent citizenry (1840-1880), the view of reading as a cultural asset (1880-1910), the scientific investigation of reading (1910-1935), international conflict (1935-1950), and culminating, in a prescient analysis, with a period of expanding knowledge and technological revolution (1950 to the present).
- Global economic competition
- he rapid emergence of the Internet
- higher levels of literacy achievement including the use of the Internet and other ICTs
- access to information and the ability to use information effectively that enables individuals to seize life's opportunities.
- More and more frequently, work is characterized by the effective use of information to solve important problems within a globally competitive economy.
- Information-age organizations seeking to achieve greater productivity are organized horizontally, with teams within lower levels of the organization empowered to make important decisions related to their functioning. Members of these teams must quickly identify important problems, locate useful information related to the problems they identify, critically evaluate the information they find, synthesize this information to solve the problems, and then quickly communicate the solutions to others so that everyone within an organization is informed. These high-performance workplaces seek more fully to utilize the intellectual capital among every employee. This change has had a fundamental effect on the nature of literacy within these organizations.
- Each element of change that characterizes the workplace today has important implications for the nature of literacy instruction.
- a premium on people who possess effective problem-solving skills. As collaborative teams seek more effective ways of working, they are expected to identify problems important to their unit and seek appropriate solutions.
- members of high-performance workplace teams must then locate useful information related to those problems. Knowing how, when, and where to locate useful information on the Internet, or on an Intranet, will become an increasingly important component of the literacy curriculum
- effective search strategies.
- These critical literacies and analytic skills also will become increasingly important elements in the literacy curriculum because they are essential to the careful evaluation of any information one obtains, something that is essential in an informational space such as the Internet where anyone may publish anything.
- The ability to synthesize informatio
- new literacies of the Internet and other ICTs permit greater civic engagement in democratic institutions.
- personal
- professional
- civic
- nearly everyone in the workforce will be using the Internet at work within just a few years.
- viewing less television than before they started using the Internet;
- Governments around the world are keenly aware of the consequences of global economic competition for their citizens. They have responded by implementing public policies to raise literacy achievement in an attempt to better prepare their children for the challenges that lie ahead
- We have seen how three important social forces in today's world are shaping both the forms and functions of literacy:
  
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  Global economic competition within economies based increasingly on the effective use of information and communication
  
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  The rapid emergence of the Internet as a powerful new technology for information and communication
  
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  Public policy initiatives by governments around the world to ensure higher levels of literacy achievement, including the use of the Internet and other ICTs
- We argue that, as the medium of the message changes, comprehension processes, decoding processes, and what "counts" as literacy activities must change to reflect readers' and authors' present-day strategies for comprehension and response.
- literacy might index a very broad range of knowledge and practice (e.g., having technical skill across programs and platforms, knowing how to install and upgrade software) with developing technologies.
- forms of decoding are developing that were either relatively minor or simply not possible offline. In an electronic environment, decoding for comprehension includes decoding the strategic use of color; various clues that indicate hyperlinked texts and graphics; the possible actions of meaning-bearing icons and animations; and pictures, maps, charts, and graphs that are not static, but that can change to address questions that an interactive reader can pose to informational text during the reading act
- With personal computers' and the Internet's graphical interfaces, it is no longer possible to position the print text as the focal text in all instances, with images serving only a supporting role in meaning construction.
- Perhaps more significant, changing definitions must acknowledge the expanded presence of multimedia, which has led to a proliferation of new combinations of authoring (e.g., voice-annotated websites, video clips with hypertextual analysis). Lemke (1998), from a semiotic perspective, argues convincingly that a central problem is that meanings are not fixed and additive, but multiplicative. That is, in the electronic environment what must be interpreted is not a complementary relation of separately developed texts but the expansive signification of an entire sign system. The literacies necessary to understand multiple, interdependent meanings index the need for complex understandings of literacy "toolkits" (Gee, 1990; Wertsch, 1991) for interpreting and producing meaning in hypermedia that includes but extends traditional texts.
- it is impossible to discuss literacy without considering who is using it and for what purposes. They describe the essential need to understand the stance of the person producing a message, the motive behind the message, and the need to critically evaluate these messages. They foreground the important need to develop critical literacies as an essential element of any instructional program because new media forms, globalization, and economic pressures engender messages that increasingly attempt to persuade individuals to act in ways beneficial to an economic or political unit but not necessarily beneficial to the individual.
- wo dimensions central to literacy: (1) the multiple modalities of communication in a world where many new communication technologies have appeared and (2) the growing diversity of culture and language within an increasingly global community.
- multiliteracies
- media literacy perspective
- Media literacy perspectives often are closely aligned with critical literacy perspectives, though they focus more on media forms beyond text such as video and the images that often drive a culture.
- And, because locations on the Internet often are populated with commercial, political, and economic motives, it becomes essential to be able to carefully evaluate these while gathering information
- while a multiliteracies perspective is a most useful one, its sociolinguistic grounding somewhat limits its ability to predict any of the more cognitive and ontological aspects of new literacies that students must develop in order to become literate with the Internet and other ICTs
  - This would also include a moral element, and evolution of new social mores resulting from a global interrelatedness and an awareness of the potential for universal distribution of any and all messages on the internet. This is a fundamental change in our culture that is probably both intuitive and unconscious in DNs. - on 2009-06-14
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  - meaning the have to do with "place" and context. - on 2009-06-14
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- Finally, while considering the contributions we require in all these areas, we also may wish to consider the important consequences resulting from a deictic vision of new literacies for what students need to learn. The continuously changing technologies of literacy mean that we must help children "learn how to learn" new technologies of literacy. In fact, the ability to learn continuously changing technologies for literacy may be a more critical target than learning any particular technology of literacy itself.

Reading Rockets : Reading wiki: free-reading.net

wikis for early literacy

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TWiki - the Open Source Enterprise Wiki and Web 2.0 Application Platform

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MobyGames: Literature-inspired games

A wiki MobyGames is a historical archive, documentation, and review project for all electronic games (computer, console, and arcade). We have two specific goals:\n\n\n\n 1. To store a diverse array of information about games, who created them, what their system requirements are, what their game screens look like, etc., all browseable via an easy-to-use, hyperlinked interface.\n\n 2. To let the public contribute to each entry in the database, whether it be with new entries, additional information, simple ratings, or detailed reviews.\n\n\n\nThe Detailed Answer:\n\n\nMobyGames is our attempt to preserve the rich history behind electronic gaming. To that extent, we've created a database project that has the potential to contain all of the nitty-gritty information on all electronic games. You can see our current efforts right on the main page; while we have entries on current notable games, we pride ourselves on documenting games that go as far back as the beginning of our earliest supported platform. It is our hope that everyone who is involved with electronic games can get something from MobyGames.

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FunBox Blog: Classic Literature Video Games

short descriptions of three lit-based games: Wuthering Heights, Huckleberry Finn, and TKM

There is actually an ad on the page for becoming a literature teacher through "teachers R Us" !!

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literacy technology games

07 Jun 09

Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction

Provides seven different definitions or foci of literacy.

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literacy technology research instruction

Literacy instruction traditionally refers to the teaching
of basic literacy skills—reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In
today's digital world, however, technology has contributed to an expanded
understanding of literacy. Besides having basic literacy skills, today's
students also need technology skills for communicating, investigating, accessing
and using information, computing, thinking critically about messages inherent
in new media, and understanding and evaluating data. As policymakers and educators
ponder what it means to be literate in a digitized society, an array of literacy
definitions is emerging.

National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Reading Study

decline or reading linked w/ poorer academic AND SOCIAL outcomes.\n\nthis news release about the study highlights "civic, social, and economic implications."

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literacy culture decline

To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence,
he compendium reveals recent declines in voluntary reading and test scores alike, exposing trends that have severe consequences for American society.
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- "This study shows the startling declines, in how much and how well Americans read, that are adversely affecting this country's culture, economy, and civic life as well as our children's educational achievement."
- Nearly two-thirds of employers ranked reading comprehension "very important" for high school graduates. Yet 38 percent consider most high school graduates deficient in this basic skill.⁶
  American 15-year-olds ranked fifteenth in average reading scores for 31 industrialized nations, behind Poland, Korea, France, and Canada, among others.⁷
  Literary readers are more likely than non-readers to engage in positive civic and individual activities – such as volunteering, attending sports or cultural events, and exercising.⁸

27 May 09

Dawn of the digital natives - is reading declining? | Technology | The Guardian

This article argues that the NEA report discovering a decline in literacy is biased against online reading. An interesting case.Steven Johnson is the author of Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

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literacy culture research reading decline

26 May 09

Reading Tech links10-17-06 FINAL.pdf (application/pdf Object)

The Technology Supports for Struggling Readers training module addresses the five research based components of effective reading programs:
phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension as identified by the No Child Left Behind Readin

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literacy technology learning resources

Study shows IM is OK - Technology - smh.com.au

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literacy learning technology

Study shows text speak aids reading ability of children

Need to verify the actual study and find replications

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Technology and Teaching Children to Read

summary of some research on use of technology in beginning and remedial reading instruction.

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literacy research reading

23 May 09

The Theory Behind the Dictionary: Cultural Literacy and Education. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002

Hirsch's explanation/defense of his 3rd edition

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literacy culture

‘Textspeak’ related to violence in video games - The China Post

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literacy decline textspeak

Declining U.S. Newspaper Circulation Potentially Signals Decline In Literacy Critical To Nation's Economic Health | AHN | May 22, 2009

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The new dictionary of cultural literacy - Google Book Search

hirsch's 2002 2nd ed

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literacy social

The Dangerous Decline in Literacy - Advice

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Literacy of College Graduates Is on Decline

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Pathways for 21st Century Literacies

Reading Online: Miss Rhumphius effect

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National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Reading Study

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