Good writing essential, but email doesn’t count

2 May 2008 – 6:53 am

Introducing a new research report, the Pew Internet and American Life Project observes that:
“Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing. This disconnect matters because teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them.”
The [...]

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Learning new information literacy skills

24 April 2008 – 6:44 am

Henry Jenkins (MIT) and Howard Gardner (Harvard) are each leading projects investigating how to teach information literacy skills to the current generation of university students.
The New Media Literacies project at MIT takes what we might call an ‘embedded’ approach to teaching information literacy:
“How does digital copying relate to legacy notions of property? What do [...]

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Literacy, old and new

16 February 2008 – 6:54 am

Last year the USA’s National Endowment for the Arts released a study called To Read or Not To Read: a question of national consequence. NEA chair Dana Gioia said, “This study shows the startling declines, in how much and how well Americans read, that are adversely affecting this country’s culture, economy, and civic life as [...]

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