| 1. | 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.
lrs.ed.uiuc.edu |
| 3. | PrairieNet Community Network | | | The PrairieNet organization attempts to decrease the size of the digital divide by offering technology-based classes.
www.prairienet.org |
| 6. | Higher Education in the Information Age | | | 1997 symposium about the technological future and new models for delivery of education; new markets, competition, opportunities, issues, and business relationships in education; and the future of the undergraduate experience. Participant background and program details.
www.upenn.edu |
| 7. | 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
www.teenlit.com |
| 8. | 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.
www.research.umbc.edu |
| 10. | Literacy in the Information Age: Campus Honors Class | | | A capstone course that draws on students' experience throughout their undergraduate program to discuss a series of themes such as community, the political sphere and education which have been impacted by the new information technologies.
leep.lis.uiuc.edu |
| 11. | Critical Thinking in an Online World | | | Author Debra Jones argues that critical thinking is a key component of information literacy instruction in this conference paper from 1996.
www.library.ucsb.edu |
| 12. | Information Communication Technology in New Zealand | | | Supports the integration of Information Communication Technology and Information Literacy across the curriculum. It outlines the SAUCE model for research and problem solving and aims to provide articles and resources to encourage higher thinking in the classroom.
ictnz.com |
| 13. | Learning Online: Extending the Meaning of Community | | | A review of three programs from the Southeastern United States, which describes how online learning enhanced three organizations: SeniorNet, Neighborhood Networks, and Bridging the Gap of Isolation/Powering Up.
www.literacyonline.org |
| 14. | FutureKids of South Florida | | | . FutureKids also offers computer classes for anyone: from the whiz kid to the adventurous grandparent.
www.futurekidsfla.com |
| 16. | Technology CyberTrends | | | Quotes from managers, professionals, consultants, journalists, futurists, and educators regarding the digital revolution, digital dawn, information highway, and Internet.
www.duke.edu |
| 19. | Cult of the Palm Pilot | | | This essay appears on the Boston Phoenix webpage. Dan Kennedy reflects on the changes in literacy practices that palm computing makes possible.
www.bostonphoenix.com |
| 21. | Educational Technology Timeline | | | A timeline running from 40,000 BC to 2203 AD linking to important events in the development of educational technologies.
cter.ed.uiuc.edu |
| 22. | The Gutenberg Elegies | | | Excerpts from the printed book _The Gutenberg Elegies_ by Sven Birkerts. Concerning the ways language and thought change together in a little dance.
archives.obs-us.com |
| 25. | Tella: Virtual School in a Networking Learning Environment | | | The present paper describes factors that have facilitated the transformation of industrial societies to information and network societies; the possibilities of virtual school as a future-oriented school form; the tools of the new information and communication technology; and global networking as a framework for the learning environment.
www.helsinki.fi |
| 26. | Will Libraries Survive? | | | Geoffrey Nunberg reviews the history and politics surrounding the digitization of libraries.
www.prospect.org |
| 28. | Association of Christian Community Computer Centers (AC4) | | | Nondenominational organization which supports Christian community computer centers across the world in their effort to provide access, skills and relationships needed to succeed in the information age. The key goal of AC4 is to assist churches and Christian organizations to become a major driving force behind computer literacy just as they were with basic literacy.
www.ac4.org |
| 29. | Academicians' Guide to Information Literacy | | | An introduction to the concept of information literacy and model information literacy programs. It is designed specifically for academic administrators and faculty. Many links to additional related resources.
www.ala.org |
| 32. | Information Literacy and the Net | | | A series of modules to help students explore Internet resources through engaging in different forms of literacy, including visual literacy. A staff development project developed by Bellingham Public Schools in Bellingham, Washington.
www.bham.wednet.edu |
| 33. | 21st Century Information Fluency Project Porta | | | Designed to train users in in the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to fully understand Information Fluency. We focus on teaching people how to locate, evaluate, and integrate digital information.
wizard.imsa.edu |
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