Technology and Literacy in the 21st Century The Importance of Paying Attention

Name: Technology and Literacy in the 21st Century The Importance of Paying Attention
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ISBN: 9780809322695

ISBN-10: 0809322692

ISBN-13: 9780809322695

Edition: 1999

Authors: Cynthia L. Selfe, Hugh BURNS

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Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action,Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Centuryexplores the complex linkage between technology and literacy that has come to characterize American culture and its public educational system at the end of the twentieth century. nbsp; To provide a specific case study of this complex cultural formation, award-winning educator Cynthia L. Selfe discusses the Technology Literacy Challenge, an official, federally sponsored literacy project begun in 1996 that has changed—at fundamentally important levels—the definition of literacy and the practices recognized as constituting literate behavior in America. Selfe tries to…

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List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 11/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.46" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Foreword: In the Best Modern Way



Introduction: Paying Attention to the Technology-Literacy Linkage



A New Literacy Agenda and Its Challenges



Literacy and Technology Linked: The National Project to Expand Technological Literacy



The Problem of Polemic: Representations of Technological Literacy in the Popular Press



An Analysis of Social Investment in the New Literacy Agenda



The Role of Government



The Role of Education



The Role of Business and Industry



The Role of Parents



The Role of Ideology



The Future and Our Responsibility: Sites and Plans for Action and Change



Paying Attention to Technology, Learning about Literacy



Working for Change


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