09/22/08 Dr. Christie

I chose to write about Dr. Christie's The Changing Face of Literacy.
http://www.alicechristie.org/ppt/literacy/index.htm

In this post she discusses the changing definitions of literacy. The old literacy definition is print-based, static, and teacher centered. The new definition is multimedia, dynamic, open ended and student centered. In the new economy society focuses on knowledge base verses in the past being a product based economy.

In her post she says that we must help our students by showing them how to effectively sort through the information that is available to them to help to prevent information overload. WE can do this by training them to determine if a website or source is credible or not. I can use this to make sure that my students understand and reinforce training on credible sites verses junk on the Internet.