Maybe I didn't describe what Dr. Leu was talking about accurately enough. He's
not talking about literacy as decoding per se, but as using specific strategies
to understand information online. His description of these strategies brought
connections to Mosaic and Strategies That Work to my mind. The strategies he
outlines are:
Understand and Develop Questions - both teacher and student generated
Locate Information - Using a Search Engine
Locate Information - Within a Website
Critically Evaluate Information - Identifying Bias and Stance, Reliability,
and Accuracy
Synthesize Information
Communicate Information
He is describing a new type of literacy necessary to use the online tools to
learn. He also talked about learning to learn.
There is more information here:
http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/events.html
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/teachreading35/session5/index.html
Joy/NC/4
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How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go
hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org
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