Literacy In the Digital Age: Reading, Writing, Viewing, and Computing
Literacy is the foundation for learning. In a digital world it is important that the learner understand how to critically analyze sources of information. In a paper and print world we have editorial boards, peer reviews, and other ways to validate information. In the new digital world information is instantaneous and often not validated. The challenge is how to use these new resources and how to ensure it is accurate and valid. We need to teach learners to be critical users of digital...
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Examines the transition from a book and library world and its influence upon schools to a digital world of electronic text, television, and the Internet. It redefines literacy in that new world and addresses the questions: What does a digital world mean for schools? Can we provide a model of education that allows the learner access to learning at anytime and anyplace? Includes: a glimpse of how students might learn in a digital world, a discussion of national and international digital libraries of high quality curriculum, a model federal law that could provide for the development of a digital resource for schools across the nation and eventually for the world.
PrefaceIntroduction11How Do Infants and Children Learn?112Signs, Codes, and Symbols253Multiple Literacies294Reading and Writing335Literacy and Technology416Literacy, Curriculum, and School Achievement437Learning in the Twenty-First Century498What We Have Learned679The Role of the Federal Government in Learning Technologies77References93Index103About the Author105
\ British Journal Of Educational TechnologyThe book is very readable and laudable in its "motherhood and apple pie" approach to education.\ \ \ \ \ Education WeekRedefines literacy for the digital world and poses the question: What does a digital world mean for schools?\ \
