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

by Tyner,Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9780805822267
• ISBN10: 0805822267
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135690847
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Written for media education scholars and students, literacy educators, and anyone involved with integrating new technologies into the educational process, Literacy in a Digital World explores the changing relationship between literacy and schooling within the context of new communication technologies, and places literacy within the social and historical contexts that expand its potential to enrich teaching and learning in an information age.

Table of Contents

Lea's Communication Series	p. ii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Pause on Literacy Fast Forward	p. 10
Expanding Literacy	p. 25
Divergence and Convergence on the Electronic Frontier	p. 42
Splintering Literacies	p. 60
Beyond Access	p. 69
Representing Literacy in the Age of Information	p. 92
Treading Water: Media Education in the United States	p. 129
Moving Toward an Acquisition Model of Media Education	p. 153
Representing Diversity-- Media Analysis in Practice	p. 166
Toward an Interactive Education	p. 195
Afterword A Tale of Two Cities	p. 231
Appendix: Global Multiliteracy Networks	p. 255
Author Index	p. 275
Subject Index	p. 281
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