Literacy in a Digital World: Teaching and Learning in the Age of Information

by Tyner,Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9780805822274
• ISBN10: 0805822275
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

An exploration of the jucture between media education and educational technology, for communication educators, education administrators

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xi
INTRODUCTION	1	(9)
1 PAUSE ON LITERACY FAST FORWARD	10	(15)
Rewind to Referencing Past	13	(2)
Literacy Through a Glass Darkly	15	(3)
Literacy and Schooling	18	(2)
On the Horns of Plato's Dilemma	20	(5)
2 EXPANDING LITERACY	25	(17)
Literacy as Discourse: Theory at the Turn of the 21st Century	28	(1)
The Discourse of Schooling	29	(2)
Literacy Myths and Their Consequences	31	(2)
When Past and Future Collide	33	(3)
Erasing the Myths of Literacy	36	(4)
Avoiding False Dichotomies	40	(2)
3 DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER	42	(18)
Mass Communication Study at the Crossroads	44	(1)
Scanning the Faultline	45	(3)
In Search of Digital Literacy	48	(4)
Whatcha Doin' Marshall McLuhan?	52	(3)
From Oral to Print to Electronic and Back Again	55	(2)
Converging Literacy, Communication, and Educational Theory	57	(3)
4 SPLINTERING LITERACIES	60	(9)
A New Literacy for a New Age	61	(2)
A Case for Multiliteracies	63	(6)
5 BEYOND ACCESS	69	(23)
Educational Technology: Tools in Search of a Theory	71	(4)
Networked Computers as Literacy	75	(2)
Computers as Literacy	77	(2)
The Sum of the Parts	79	(7)
Literacy Tools in Action: Crossing the Divide	86	(3)
Reframing the Access Issue	89	(3)
6 REPRESENTING LITERACY IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION	92	(37)
Linking Literacies	93	(4)
The Literacy of Libraries	97	(7)
A Closer Look at Visual Literacy	104	(5)
Visual Literacy in Practice: Codes and Contexts	109	(4)
(What in the World Is) Media Literacy?	113	(1)
Media Education in Europe	114	(4)
Defining Media Literacy	118	(4)
Constituencies for Media Literacy Education	122	(1)
Media Teaching About Media	123	(3)
Media Education in Print	126	(3)
7 TRADING WATER: MEDIA EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES	129	(24)
Dissecting the Critical Viewing Movement of the 1970s	133	(6)
Conflicting Purposes of Literacy	139	(1)
Protecting Other People's Children	140	(9)
Jammin' for a Better Tomorrow	149	(4)
8 MOVING TOWARD AN ACQUISITION MODEL OF MEDIA EDUCATION	153	(13)
An Arts-Based Approach to Media Education	156	(4)
The San Francisco Digital Media Center: An Arts-Based Approach in Action	160	(2)
Critical Democratic Approaches to Media Education	162	(4)
9 REPRESENTING DIVERSITY-MEDIA ANALYSIS IN PRACTICE	166	(29)
Diversity and the Myth of Educational Failure	167	(2)
Teaching in the Diverse Classroom	169	(1)
Diversity and the Pop Culture Canon	170	(3)
The Case for Cognitive Apprenticeships in Language and Literacy Learning	173	(2)
Cognitive Apprenticeships in the Diverse Classroom	175	(2)
Cognitive Apprenticeships for Media Education	177	(2)
Congnitive Apprenticeships With Student-Produced Work	179	(4)
The Case for Video Production in the Diverse Classroom	183	(1)
Video as a Scaffolding Medium	183	(2)
Representation and Reproduction	185	(10)
10 TOWARD AN INTERACTIVE EDUCATION	195	(36)
Coming to Consensus	197	(1)
The Marriage of Analysis and Production	198	(2)
In Search of Media Education Standards	200	(2)
Exemplary Media Education Standards in the United States	202	(22)
Research and Practice	224	(2)
Scaling Up Local Critical Literacy Efforts	226	(2)
Why Media Education?	228	(3)
AFTERWORD: A TALE OF TWO CITIES	231	(24)
Literacy in a Rural Setting	232	(11)
Literacy in an Urban Landscape	243	(12)
APPENDIX: Global Multiliteracy Networks	255	(3)
REFERENCES	258	(17)
AUTHOR INDEX	275	(6)
SUBJECT INDEX	281