Search The Directory The Web for Home > Society > Issues > Education > Literacy > Literacy_in_the_Information_Age New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Media Awareness Network - Offering practical support for media education in the home, school and community and provides information and "food for thought" on the media culture.   National Educational Technology Standards - Provides educators with criteria to use and factors to consider for better implementation of technology in public education.   Prairienet - Community Networking Initiative - Freenet internet service providing electronic mail, online discussion forums, development of an online repository of community information, gateway to local and global networked information and services, awareness, outreach, access, and training.   Publications by Donald Leu - Various publications on internet and literacy.   Structuring writing for reading: hypertext and the reading body. - This paper examines some textual devices that writers may use to pre-structure the activities of their readers. HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is used as an 'explicating device' to explore how writers can provide reading instructions, and how these can be experienced by readers. Structuring devices like paragraphs and sections, and hypertextual elements like notes and references are investigated in detail. In this way, the paper aspires to contribute to 'an ethnomethodology of textual practices'. - Abstract from Article   TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial - An award-winning, interactive library tutorial, created by the Digital Information Literacy Office at the University of Texas at Austin. TILT has an open publication license that allows other institutions to create customized, local versions of the tutorial.   Technology CyberTrends - Quotes from managers, professionals, consultants, journalists, futurists, and educators regarding the digital revolution, digital dawn, information highway, Internet, etc.   Technology Issues for Educators - Teams of educators participating in an online course developed a set of white papers on how new information and communication technologies affect schools. They produced educators' guides to Access Issues, Credibility and Web Evaluation, Free Speech versus Censorship, Privacy, Commercialism, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Plagiarism, Computer Crime and Technology Misuse.   TeenLit.com - Dedicated to publishing teen writing, as well as book reviews by teenagers. Teachers and parents of adolescents will find useful information. Teen and teacher discussions, author home pages, and more   The Implications of Electronic Information for the Sociology of Knowledge - Article by UCLA professor Richard Lanham which discusses how the current trend of text moving from paper to screen will force us to rethink literacy   The Internet: A Medium or Message? - An article discussing the Internet as being more than just a medium. It has the ability to create change.     [ 1 2 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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