Literacy in the Digital Age

Informationen zum Autor Frank B. Withrow is president of ABLE Company, A Better Learning Experience Company. He has been an early childhood teacher, speech pathologist, audiologist, director of research, and a federal program officer. He was the senior learning technologist at the U. S. Department of Edcuation for 30 years. Klappentext Examines the transition from a book and library world and its influence upon schools to a digital world of electronic text, television, and the Internet. It redefines literacy in that new world and addresses the questions: What does a digital world mean for schools? Can we provide a model of education that allows the learner access to learning at anytime and anyplace? Includes: a glimpse of how students might learn in a digital world, a discussion of national and international digital libraries of high quality curriculum, a model federal law that could provide for the development of a digital resource for schools across the nation and eventually for the world. Zusammenfassung Withrow! formerly a learning technologist with the US Department of Education! examines the transition from a world of books and libraries! and their influence on schools! to a digital world of electronic text! television! and the Internet! exploring what the transition means for schools. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 How Do Infants and Children Learn 2 Signs, Codes, and Symbols 3 Multiple Literacies 4 Reading and Writing 5 Literacy and Technology 6 Literacy, Curriculum, and School Achievement 7 Learning in the Twenty-First Century 8 What We Have Learned 9 The Role of the Federal Government in Learning Technologies

Product details

• Authors: Frank B. Withrow, Withrow Frank B.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2004
• EAN: 9781578860333
• ISBN: 978-1-57886-033-3
• No. of pages: 114
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 7 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, EDUCATION / Computers & Technology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, EDUCATION / Teaching / Materials & Devices