What is your earliest memory of the Internet? Most of us began our lives online with AOL. Then came browsing with Yahoo. Do you remember the first time that you saw Google? If you want to relive the days of browsing by categories, click here. With the transition from browsing to searching, there comes a whole new way of learning.... New Literacieshttp://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/ The 5 Functions of New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension
Leu, D. J., Zawilinski, L., Castek, J., Banerjee, M., Housand, B., Liu, Y., et al. (2007). What is new about the new literacies of online reading comprehension? In L. Rush, J. Eakle, & A. Berger, (Eds.). Secondary school literacy: What research reveals for classroom practices. (37-68). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. Companion website available at http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/reading.html. As educators, we should be teaching our students to read and understand search results. Now more than ever, our students must learn to be critical consumers of knowledge. What would your students say about this website? Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Future Shock
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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