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"Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet. As a Cornell student, activities including writing papers, creating multimedia presentations, and posting information about yourself or others online are all a part of your day-to-day life, and all of these activities require varying degrees of digital literacy. Is simply knowing how to do these things enough? No-there's more to it than that."

"n this informative excerpt from Models of Intervention in Mathematics: Reweaving the Tapestry, you'll learn how digital tools and online environments can be used to: Leverage technology to adjust teaching in the moment Utilize the computer as an assistant teacher Identify student strengths and weaknesses and notify the teacher Dr. Cathy Fosnot is Professor Emeritus of Childhood Education at the City College of New York and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the founder and past director of Mathematics in the City (www.mitcccny.org), an internationally recognized center for professional development located at CCNY and funded by the National Science Foundation. A well-known author and speaker around the world on mathematics education, Dr. Fosnot has authored over 40 books and numerous articles on mathematics education, including Models of Intervention in Mathematics: Reweaving the Tapestry. "

"Can the lessons of individual schools and school networks that have shown success with "personalized" models of education be applied to whole systems?"