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Excellent list of worldwide links for Media Literacy

Web 2.0 literacy tools

Alternate Reality Games as a Platform for practicing 21st Century Literacies

VocabularySpellingCity has a new summer word study program that allows children to sharpen academic skills as they play. These simple assignments are a daily workout for the brain, building literacy skills such as vocabulary, spelling, and writing.

This wiki is for the use of the community of practice that we hope will coalesce around the use of the Social Media Classroom specifically and more generally around the use of participatory media in teaching and learning. At the beginning, the main purpose is to build out a repository of resources for teachers and learners around all aspects of participatory media literacy, but like all wikis, the future shape will depend on the community that uses it.

In the post-truth era, does the capacity to utilise knowledge prepare one adequately to do battle against falsehood? When those selling untruths know the falsehood of their stories, does the bright light of truth shine through? Perhaps not.

Pocket Tales turns reading into a game you play with your friends.

Great resource -- especially for the Smartboard or second language as many of the books are written in different lanquages -- great to share with another global classroom.

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