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Madison Kramig

EJ840808.pdf - 0 views

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    Open education resources, available via the internet, have begun to "level the playing field" globally. It's not a fool-proof plan, but it's a step in the right direction.
Madison Kramig

The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies - 0 views

  • Active, successful participants in this 21st century global society must be able toDevelop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology;Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships with others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought;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 multimedia texts;Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments.
Madison Kramig

Literacy in the Global Village - 1 views

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    The internet has become what the printing press once was in terms of literacy. Information is more widely available, therefore encouraging literacy on a larger scale as well as making it more of a necessity.
Joy O'Connell

Illiteracy Statistics | Statistic Brain - 0 views

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    Some simple statistics that we may want to know.
Joy O'Connell

America's Most (and Least) Literate Cities - 24/7 Wall St. - 0 views

  • The study ranked the cities based on six dimensions of literacy, including size of library systems, presence of bookstores, educational attainment, digital readership, circulation of newspapers and other publications.
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      They're looking for any kind of reading.
  • the goal of the report, America’s Most Literate Cities, was not to examine whether people can read, but if they actually do read.
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      Maybe we can use that to our advantage? We need to define literacy.
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    The second and third paragraphs in provide good support that when people are researching literacy, they are including ebooks or digital magazines.
Kennadie Jenner

Education Update:Leveraging Technology to Improve Literacy:Leveraging Technology to Imp... - 0 views

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      According to MacArthur, word-prediction software can also help students dramatically improve the legibility and spelling of their writing. In a 2006 article he explains that his series of three studies of 9- and 10-year-olds with severe spelling problems showed that these students' legible words increased from 55 to 85 percent, and their correctly spelled words rose from 42 to 75 percent.
Kennadie Jenner

Technology Will Help Increase Literacy Skills. - 1 views

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      While skills such as literacy can be taught with traditional tools, it is important that modern technology is included among these tools. This is the future happening daily in the classroom.
Madison Kramig

Moving Towards a New Literacy: the impact of the Internet on Literacy - 1 views

  • Traditionally, literacy has been thought of as the ability to read and write
  • what do reading and writing mean? What have they meant traditionally, and is that meaning any different now, in a computer age?
  • It is a state of being able to communicate via text in all its manifestations
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  • the term literacy to mean the activities involved in interacting with text, namely reading, writing, and spelling
  • "literacy has become a deictic term; its meaning is continually changing, dependent upon the technological context in which it occurs"
  • literacy is in that "it is used to create identity"
  • The Internet is quickly becoming the most prominent form of textual interaction in the world, and using it demands a new set of skills
  • the Internet possesses an ideology and social influence that changes the way in which text is perceived
  • Dudfield claims that reading and writing have become interactive events, not simple absorption or recital, and that different characteristics and types of literacy activities have developed on the Internet: Reflective Writing: The electronic medium allows opportunities for reflection and refining thought before making words public.   Community Participation: Participants achieve a sense of belonging and use language to "exist," to have a voice.   Interdiscursivity: Texts can be preprogrammed, prewritten, or produced synchronously; innovative discourse types.   Identity Construction: Potential for multiple "selfs" and to exist in ways not possible in the "real world."   Reader-Writer State of Flux: Participants are in an ongoing process of reading what others have written or are writing, and writing their own contributions.   Reader Subjectivity: Users are in positions of expertise and control and are coauthors of the texts in which they participate.   Command-driven Texts: Commands are used for moving within the environment and for manipulating and programming objects.
  • With new literature being developed on the internet, using techniques unavailable in traditional literature, the internet cannot help but be a powerful force in transforming literacy.
  • the entire history of literacy has been dependent on the technical advances that it has used
  • there is an unprecedented amount of reading material available
  • hypertext is positive and liberating, perhaps encouraging more creative and meaningful literary works
  • hypertext allows the reader to interact with the story, deciding what order events occur in, and, possibly what plotlines are followed. If there are multiple plots, some might even be ignored completely. As opposed to traditional methods of reading and writing, hypertext gives the reader some degree of control over what they are reading
  • Overlapping both these areas is interactive literacy, where the reader becomes a participant
  • The act of reading is beginning to include the understanding of multimedia presentations, as opposed to text alone, and reading seems to be moving from a more passive experience of viewing and processing information to a more active role where the reader actually interacts with what they are reading, possibly changing it in the process
  • Traditional reading and writing are but the initial layers of the richer and more complex forms of literacy required in this electronic context
  • the internet's popularity may attract a larger audience to works of literature
  • being literate is quickly changing from an end state to an endless developmental process" and that literacy on the Internet "will require new forms of critical thinking and reasoning about the information that appears in this venue.
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