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This paper reviews higher education assessment methods; identifies useful theories and practices;
describes assessment programs in academic libraries; and makes recommendations for changes in
library education and for future research.
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/nashville1997pap/pauschpopp.htm
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Information Literacy in a Nutshell: Basic Information for Academic Administrators and Faculty
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.
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/infolitoverview/infolitforfac/
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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.
http://wizard.imsa.edu/
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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.
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/studentgal/onlineresearch/oldonline/literacy.htm
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International Society for Technology in Education
ISTE is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting the use of information technology to
aid in learning, teaching of K-12 students and teachers. A major goal of the organization is to
bridge the "digital divide".
http://www.iste.org/
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Information Literacy: A Clarification
Provides a history of literacy, including discussion of different concepts of literacy. It focuses
specifically on the nebulous concept of "information literacy" and its impact on schools
and libraries.
http://golum.riv.csu.edu.au/~llangfor/papers/paper5.html
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Information Literacy as a Liberal Art
Article which discusses literacy in a broad, historical sense, and lists seven dimensions of
literacy.
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewarticles/31231.html
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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.
http://www.ac4.org/
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Expanding the Concept of Literacy
This article discusses a new definition of literacy which states, "Literacy is the ability to
access, analyze, evaluate and communicate messages in a variety of forms." The concept of
"text" is expanded to include messages of all sorts.
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/hobbs/expanding.html
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Will Libraries Survive?
Geoffrey Nunberg reviews the history and politics surrounding the digitization of libraries.
http://www.prospect.org/print/V9/41/nunberg-g.html
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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.
http://www.helsinki.fi/~tella/ole1.html
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Technology used in Adult Literacy Programs
This is a paper on how technology is affecting adult literacy programs.
http://eserver.org/literacy/technology-and-literacy.hqx
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Orality, Literacy, and the Future of Computer-Mediated Communication
A historical perspective on the growth of electronic communication. Offers examples from Socrates
to Martin Luther of how technology influences human interaction.
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/%7Euniv302/StudentWork/S96/Dolan/olec.html
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Literacy in the Information Age
As we enter a new millennium, the technology that we use to communicate with each other is
proceeding at a fantastic pace. The key questions for us as educators are how is this technology
best used to benefit our students, and how will this new technology affect them and their futures?
http://eduserv.edu.yorku.ca/~raja_bhattacharyya/literacy.htm
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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.
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdbirk.htm
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Educational Technology Timeline
A timeline running from 40,000 BC to 2203 AD linking to important events in the development of
educational technologies.
http://cter.ed.uiuc.edu/cter2/ci335/timeline.html
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The Internet: A Medium or Message?
An article discussing the Internet as being more than just a medium. It has the ability to create
change.
http://www.geocities.com/packet_switching_message/
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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.
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/features/99/07/22/CULT_OF_THE_PALM_PILOT.html
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Educom Review: Information Literacy as a Liberal Art
The article suggests that a liberal education, originally based on the idea of the
"Renaissance man" notion, should apply to technology as well. Shapiro and Hughes also,
believe that this new definition of literacy affects the quality of liberty in society.
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/31231.html
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TILT Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
A short presentation of the meaning of literacy in the information age.
http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/
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Educational Technology: Media for Inquiry, Communication, Construction, and Expression
Describes a new way of classifying uses of educational technologies, based on a four-part division
suggested by John Dewey: inquiry, communication, construction, and expression.
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/%7Echip/pubs/taxonomy/index.html
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Technology CyberTrends
Quotes from managers, professionals, consultants, journalists, futurists, and educators regarding
the digital revolution, digital dawn, information highway, and Internet.
http://www.duke.edu/~mccann/q-tech.htm
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Digital Immortal
Article by Robert Lucky (pdf) questioning the continuing dominance of information technology.
Original manuscript title: "Information Technology: Will This Too, Pass?"
http://www.argreenhouse.com/papers/rlucky/
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FutureKids of South Florida
This organization is dedicated to "Helping teachers and children around the world master the
power of the computer" along with providing "technology education solution for public and
private schools as well as other organizations". FutureKids also offers computer classes for
anyone: from the whiz kid to the adventurous grandparent.
http://www.futurekidsfla.com/
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Alliance for Childhood
Resources relating to the recently formed Alliance for Childhood on technology literacy.
http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/stevet/alliance/
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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.
http://www.literacyonline.org/products/ncal/pdf/TR9901.pdf
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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.
http://ictnz.com/
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Meeting the Technology Literacy Challenge
Outlines the U.S. Department of Education's plan to increase information literacy in the classroom.
It discusses issues such as equity, access and development.
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Plan/
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First Monday: Technology and Education
This article deals with the mainstreaming of technology into the education system and the chaos
that often ensues, the benefits of this change, and how it might be managed.
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_3/hamza/index.html
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Structuring writing for reading: hypertext and the reading body.
This paper examines some textual devices that writers may use to pre-structure the activities of
their readers. HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is used as an 'explicating device' to explore how
writers can provide reading instructions, and how these can be experienced by readers. Structuring
devices like paragraphs and sections, and hypertextual elements like notes and references are
investigated in detail. In this way, the paper aspires to contribute to 'an ethnomethodology of
textual practices'. - Abstract from Article
http://www.pscw.uva.nl/emca/swfr.htm#Reading%20HTML
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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.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/untangle/jones.html
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LIS391/COMM 391: Literacy in the Information Age
This course explores what it means to be information literate in today's world. Students examine a
number of information literacies, from print to multimedia, from stand-alone to networked, and
discuss a variety of themes including community, politics, and education.
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~chip/teach/courses/lit_info_age/sp01/
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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.
http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/spring98/chp295/Y2Kweb/syllabus.html
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Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals
Stevan Harnad in this D-Lib Magazine piece argues for self-archiving of scholarly work.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html
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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.
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~ira/Interweb.html
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The Implications of Electronic Information for the Sociology of Knowledge
Article by UCLA professor Richard Lanham which discusses how the current trend of text moving from
paper to screen will force us to rethink literacy
http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_culture/implications_of_info.article
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Bridging the Gap Between Literacy and Technology
This paper discusses using hypermedia to eliminate the language barriers that limited English
proficient (LEP) students experience in the school settings.
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/miscpubs/jeilms/vol14/bermudez.htm
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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
http://www.teenlit.com
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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.
http://www.upenn.edu/heia/
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Developing New Literacies: Using the Internet in Content Area Instruction
Paper discussing using the new literacy in content area instruction, how this area is changing,
time restrictions, protection of children, keeping up with new developments and preparing children
for their literacy and learning futures.
http://web.syr.edu/~djleu/content.html
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National Educational Technology Standards
Provides educators with criteria to use and factors to consider for better implementation of
technology in public education.
http://cnets.iste.org/
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Media Awareness Network
Offers practical support for media education in the home, school and community and "food for
thought"on our fast-evolving media culture.
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/
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PrairieNet Community Network
The PrairieNet organization attempts to decrease the size of the digital divide by offering
technology-based classes.
http://www.prairienet.org/
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Publications by Donald Leu
Various publications on internet and literacy.
http://web.syr.edu/~djleu/home/bca.html
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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.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/
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