Contemporary Literacy

Why Literacy Focus?

1. Rapid Change

2. Lifelong Learning

3. Contemporary Literacy (Learning Literacy) = Lifelong Learning

Contemporary literacy applies to contemporary information environment

Networked Information

Reading

Exposing What's True, Finding Information, Decoding Information, Evaluating Information, Understanding Information in Context, Web Links

Digital Information

Arithmetic

Employing the Information, Working with lots of numbers, Working with digital numbers, Working with digital (numbers) content, "Working the information", Web Links

Abundant Information

Writing

Expressing Ideas Compellingly, Text, Images, Audio, Animation, Video, Web Links

Flows without Containers

Ethical Context, Info-Responsibility, Info-Property, Info-Infrastructure, Web Links