New Literacies

NEW LITERACIES - Dr. Don Leu - University of Connecticut 

 

• Dr. Don Leu's bio from his International Reading Association presentation
• THE LITERACY WEB at the University of Connecticut
• The New Literacies Research Team
• Two articles and PowerPoint Presentation from Dr. Leu (On workshop wiki -- scroll down to NEW LITERACIES SECTION.)
• Reading Comprehension on the Internet: Expanding Our Understanding of Reading Comprehension to Encompass New Literacies

  To obtain the original article in pdf format, cut and paste it into your browser (it does not work as a clickable link):

  http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/docs/leu%20et%20al%20final%20chapter.pdf

  includes TICA Basic Skills Checklist (Teaching Internet Competencies to Adolescents)

• Videos showing students at various levels of TICA

• OTHER ARTICLES:

  Reading comprehension on the Internet

  www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/rt/2-03_Column/index.html

  Preparing Students for New Literacies in a Global Village

  www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/RT/3-01_Column/index.html

  Our Children's Future: Changing the Focus of Literacy and Literacy Instruction

  http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/RT/focus/

  The Miss Rumphius Effect: Envisionments for literacy and learning that transform the Internet

  http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/RT/rumphius.html

  Toward a Theory of New Literacies Emerging From the Internet and Other Information and Communication Technologies

  http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=/newliteracies/leu

   

  INTERNET RECIPROCAL TEACHING
• http://ctell1.uconn.edu/somers/quag.htm