Literacy In the Digital Age Reading, Writing, Viewing, and Computing

by Withrow, Frank B.

• ISBN13: 9781578860333
• ISBN10: 1578860334
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-18
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

Examines the transition from a book and library world and its influence upon schools to a digital world of electronic text, television, and the Internet. It redefines literacy in that new world and addresses the questions: What does a digital world mean for schools? Can we provide a model of education that allows the learner access to learning at anytime and anyplace? Includes: a glimpse of how students might learn in a digital world. a discussion of national and international digital libraries of high quality curriculum. a model federal law that could provide for the development of a digital resource for schools across the nation and eventually for the world.

Author Biography

Frank B. Withrow is president of A Better Learning Experience (ABLE) Company. He has been an early childhood teacher, speech pathologist, audiologist, director of research, and federal program officer. He was the senior learning technologist at the U.S. Department of Education for thirty years

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction	1	(10)
1 How Do Infants and Children Learn?	11	(14)
2 Signs, Codes, and Symbols	25	(4)
3 Multiple Literacies	29	(4)
4 Reading and Writing	33	(8)
5 Literacy and Technology	41	(2)
6 Literacy, Curriculum, and School Achievement	43	(6)
7 Learning in the Twenty-First Century	49	(18)
8 What We Have Learned	67	(10)
9 The Role of the Federal Government in Learning Technologies	77	(16)
References	93	(10)
Index	103	(2)
About the Author	105