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Lisette Casey

Media Literacy and Cultural Understanding of People in the Middle East | Media Educatio... - 0 views

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    Interesting video summarizing a cultural understanding unit.
Lisette Casey

Life on the Screen: Visual Literacy in Education | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not being so much about who has access to what technology as who knows how to create and express themselves in this new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read or write?"
Lisette Casey

Sharing Resources: Understanding Creative Commons - 21st Century Literacy - 0 views

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    Digital citizenship and other 21st century lessons
Toni Olivieri-Barton

Smories - new stories for children, read by children - 0 views

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    This looks so cool!!!
Lisette Casey

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • We can’t keep ignoring the formidable cognitive skills they’re developing on their own
  • we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist.
  • And above all, we must stop disparaging digital prowess just because some of us over 40 don’t happen to possess it.
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  • elite Socratic system of questions and answers, the agrarian method of problem-solving and the apprenticeship program of imitating a master.
  • “Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers.”
  • facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them.
  • teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy
  • students accountable on the Web,
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    "We can't keep ignoring the formidable cognitive skills they're developing on their own"
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