Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century,Used

Product Description * Prepares students for a technologically defined 21st century!; *Practical, yet visionary; *Focused on literacy within the context of technology; and *Demystifies the future of literacy and 'makes it simple' for educators and students alike. Create students of the future and leaders for tomorrows information highway! Walk away with a new definition of literacy for the Information Age that you can pass on to learners of all ages. Find suggestions and resources for discovering your own path to promoting literacy in the 21st century. 'Action Items,' inside, suggest specific activities for all educators to undertake right away. A corresponding Web site that serves as a meeting place and discussion forum for collaboration and connectivity is also available to readers, where digital versions of charts, handouts and resources are at your fingertips. Appendices: Other suggested works, Where to look to find the future. Works Cited. From School Library Journal Warlick presents a scenario for the future of information literacy, and it will be a whole (not necessarily brave) new world. Chapter one gives a vivid fictional picture of a day in a future middle school in which learning and literacy occur through technologies such as interactive portable slates, and human interaction happens in configurations so flexible and fluid as to be impossible in traditional schools. The next three chapters follow a neat informationliteracy progression. 'Exposing the Information' presents strategies for investigationtriedandtrue methods segueing into new ways of accessing and processing information through interactive technologies. 'Employing the Information' looks at how data will be analyzed and interpreted in combinations of new formats and technologies, some only dreamed of today. 'Expressing Ideas Compellingly' provides a menu of potential publishing formats that will supersede what we teach today, and the final chapter deals with ethical considerations, which will be even more difficult to define and legislate. Profound and inescapable ideas are examined and spun out to logical consequences and conclusions, one of the clearest being thatlike it or notstudents are now on the cusp of a change in learning. The burden of determining accuracy and utility in content is fast shifting from the publisher to the consumer, and educators had better prepare those consumers to be up to the job. Well documented and presented with plenty of visuals and models, this is a sobering and critical read for anyone in education.Mary R. Hofmann, Rivera Middle School, Merced, CA Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review This thoughtprovoking book discusses the need to redefine and expand our views of literacy to address our new information world. Library Media Connection, August/September 2004 From the Publisher This excellent guide will help educators prepare students for a technologically defined 21st century! About the Author David Warlicks unique voice and message combines a wide range of experiences, both in and outside the education arena. He ran two businesses before graduating from high school and spent more than a year in manufacturing before completing his undergraduate work. Since then he has been a middleschool teacher, central office administrator, and technology integration consultant for the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction, where he built the nations first state department of education Web site. Since 1995, Mr. Warlick has been the owner and principal consultant for The Landmark Project, a professional development and Web design firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. During this time David has spoken at conferences and delivered workshops for educators in nearly every state of the United States and to audiences in Europe, Asia, and South America. David lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife and two