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Examines how technology can be used in the twenty-first century classroom to provide students with the tools for improving their research and evaluation skills and enhance their ability to express their ideas, with additional information for teachers on key Web resources.
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This seminal work on what literacy truly means in the 21st century is filled with big, meaningful ideas. The purpose of this book is not to replace the three Rs, but to expand them to a model for literacy that applies to classrooms which are shape-shifting under the pressures of converging conditions. This is a must-read for all educators!• Exposes meaning from global interactive, multimedia, and electronic cybraries• Employs information for solving challenges and constructing information• Express ideas compellingly and fluently through technology to a diverse audienceThis resource features an associated Wiki web page where readers can access presentation slides, links to blog entries about redefining literacy from the edu-blogosphere, online handouts for conference presentations and workshops, various files associated with this book, and regularly updated web links that have started with Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century.
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