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AASL Position Statement on Information Literacy -- From the American Association of School Librarians, American Library Association.
Alliance for Childhood -- Resources relating to the recently formed Alliance for Childhood on technology literacy.
Assessment of Information Literacy: Lessons from the Higher Education Assessment Movement -- This paper reviews higher education assessment methods; identifies useful theories and practices; describes assessment programs in academic libraries; and makes recommendations for changes in library education and for future research.
Bridging the Gap Between Literacy and Technology -- This paper discusses using hypermedia to eliminate the language barriers that limited English proficient (LEP) students experience in the school settings.
Computer Literacy for President Candidates? -- A survey of president candidates on how much they know how to use web sites.
Developing New Literacies: Using the Internet in Content Area Instruction -- Paper discussing using the new literacy in content area instruction, how this area is changing, time restrictions, protection of children, keeping up with new developments and preparing children for their literacy and learning futures.
Educational Technology: Media for Inquiry, Communication, Construction, and Expression -- Describes a new way of classifying uses of educational technologies, based on a four-part division suggested by John Dewey: inquiry, communication, construction, and expression.
Expanding the Definition of Technological Literacy in Schools -- Discusses role of schools in an Information Age where technology has become truly pervasive and defines our environments. The Industrial Age model of schooling vs. schooling in the Information age are discussed and misconceptions of technology are identified.
Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals -- Stevan Harnad in this D-Lib Magazine piece argues for self-archiving of scholarly work.
Information Literacy in the Information Age -- Information literacy has become an essential element for citizenry in this new world; site at Queensland University of Technology Library.
Information Literacy: A Clarification -- This site provides a history of literacy, including discussion of different concepts of literacy. It focuses specifically on the nebulous concept of "information literacy" and its impact on schools and libraries.
Interactive Instruction for Adult Learners -- Links to adult literacy topics including interactive geography games, grammar, voter involvement, lesson plans with Internet-based resources and a link for low-level literacy learners.
International Visual Literacy Association -- An organization for those interested in visual literacy as a discipline, as well as across disciplines.
Learning Online: Extending the Meaning of Community -- A review of three programs from the Southeastern United States, which describes how online learning enhanced threee organizations: SeniorNet, Neighborhood Networks, and Bridging the Gap of Isolation/Powering Up
Media Awareness Network -- Offers practical support for media education in the home, school and community and "food for thought"on our fast-evolving media culture.
Media and Communication Studies -- Daniel Chandler''s excellent and comprehensive collection of resources on television, film, information technology, telecommunications, and other media.
National Educational Technology Standards -- Provides educators with criteria to use and factors to consider for better implementation of technology in public education.
Publications by Donald Leu -- Various publications on internet and literacy.
Rhetorics of the Web: Implications for Teachers of Literacy -- An article in hypertext format questioning the new rhetorics of web-based literacy.
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 Art of Writing in an Electronic Environment -- Students in writing intensive classes were given the opportunity to learn new technology. Instructors were encouraged to invent their own "Electropedagogies" by immersing themselves as well as their students in the environment.
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
What is information literacy? -- Explains what information literacy is for S.T.E.W. (students and teachers evaluating the web)

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