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Link to "Earth Science Literacy Principles Guide." The Earth Science Literacy framework document of Big Ideas and supporting concepts is a community effort representing the current state-of-the-art research in Earth sciences. It has been written, evaluated, shaped, and revised by the top scientists working in Earth science. Because of its validity, authority, and succinct format, the ESL framework will be influential in a wide variety of scientific, educational, and political settings. Future governmental legislation will be guided by it, and future national and state educational standards will be based upon it. - comment by Brent Petersen

An adoption model/framework for integrating new learning into instruction/practice. Similar to CBAM. 

Nice well-rounded iPad Launch Proposal from Miguel Guhlin. He is thorough in his plan, and the plan is on-going, long-term, developmental, and shows what success would look like for teachers.  He is upfront about using some of the great ideas of others, and asks for feedback to make it even better. if you are looking for a great framework for working with teachers on developing teacher capacity using mobile devices this is a good place to start. 

Not necessarily literacy, but if you are looking for some theoretical framework to justify instructional practice or rationale to support routine development in your classroom, here are many of the learning theories discussed in 'short' articles.

I still believe that Diigo has the potential to be a worthwhile tool for high school students doing collaborative work in content area classrooms. Here is another teacher who is using it with her students and providing a basic framework for introducing it to her students.

Patrick Ledesma does a nice job outlining how you might give students more choice in developing projects that include technology. Choice doesn't mean do whatever, it means providing frameworks and allowing students the choice to figure out what works best for them to achieve the benchmarks that you lay out within given timeframes. 

From Karen Frankler of the University of Wisconsin. Looks like it was designed for college, but easily adapted for upper high school, and nice framework for others. 

A discussion draft of the framework for the national assessment of technological literacy, the first to gauge students' understanding of and skill in using a range of tools, has been presented to theboard that oversees the testing program.

Senior Capstone Project from SLA: "The Capstone Project at Science Leadership Academy is an opportunity for seniors to show the culmination of four years of intellectual growth towards an independent and self-directed learner who can contribute meaningfully to the community. It will enable students to focus their interests and curiosity into a coherent representation of how they think and what they believe as they leave high school. The capstone represents a synthesis of the SLA mission and vision as students attempt to answer the questions: "How do we learn?" "What can we create?" and "What does it mean to lead" through a self-selected and designed independent project. As with everything we do, it should embody the core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation, and reflection. The final product will look different for each student, just as each student has a unique perspective and approach to learning."