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Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:03:35 GMT

clipped by: RayWatkins
clipper's remarks: Slow reading counterbalances Web skimming
By MARK BAUERLEIN

What we are seeing is a strange flattening of the act of reading. It equates handheld screens with Madame Bovary, as if they made the same cognitive demands and inculcated the same habits of attention. It casts peeking at a text message and plowing through Middlemarch as subsets of one general activity. And it treats those quick bursts of words and icons as fully sufficient to sustain the reading culture. The long book may go, Price concluded, but reading will carry on just as it did before: "The file, the list, the label, the memo: These are the genres that will keep reading alive."

http://www.jegsworks.com/

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:40:49 GMT

clipped by: alejandragm

Clip Source: www.jegsworks.com

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I have links to both my personal pages and to how-to materials I have written that you might find useful. Links to my personal pages are the bottom, for those who want to know who is who in my life and what lessons I have learned - mostly the hard way!

The Computer Literacy site and the Prometheus Group Project are intended for newcomers to computers and the Internet. The Demos involve HTML coding for web pages and so are definitely more technical.

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Calif. district reinstates vampire books after ban

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:48:19 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.firstamendmentcenter.org

An Orange County school district has reinstated a series of fantasy vampire novels at its 12 middle schools after banning the books from campuses last week.

Capistrano Unified School District banned Stephanie Meyer's four-book Twilight series on Sept. 26 after a literacy-program coordinator decided the subject matter was too "mature" for middle school students.

District spokeswoman Julie Hatchel said the books had a reading level of eighth grade and up. The Twilight books tell the story of a 17-year old girl and her romantic relationship with a vampire.

The reinstatement of the books was made without explanation.

The banning and reinstatement occurred during the 27th annual Banned Books Week, Sept. 27-Oct. 4, which recognizes books that have raised controversy around the country.

Tags: library, book, books, censorship, school

Early childhood matters for economics

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:28:15 GMT

clipped by: tumblon
clipper's remarks: This Canadian editorial gets it right: early childhood is the place to invest for a healthy economy.

Clip Source: thechronicleherald.ca

By the time they begin kindergarten, many kids from good home environments already have a head start in terms of cognitive, emotional and social skills, and it’s an advantage they carry with them all through life. The correlation between a good start to life and a good job later on – not to mention good health and good behaviour – is surprisingly strong.

Research shows that if kids have not caught up in literacy and language skills by Grade 3, chances are they never will.

It’s also an important economic issue.

For those who toil in the trenches, this is an investment in human capital we can no longer afford to put off.

Tags: education, parenting

Outstanding article on parent-child relationship

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:18:44 GMT

clipped by: tumblon
clipper's remarks: This article in the Statesman Journal is one of the most thorough journalistic presentations of the importance of the first five years of child development AND the critical role that parents play. Most journalists focus on programs, but Mackenzie Ryan gets it right: Parents are the key.

Clip Source: www.statesmanjournal.com

About 90 percent of a child's brain develops in that time, according to studies. And 85 percent of a child's intellect, personality and social skills are developed by that age.

It's a critical time for a child to build the foundation for literacy, which is really about the early relationship a child develops with a parent or caregiver, said Linda Craven, the early childhood education program chairwoman and instructor at Chemeketa Community College.

Research shows that these relationships — the frequency a parent reads to a child, the number of words a parent speaks to a child — can affect that student's academic achievement years later.

"If the child is typically developing, you have interactions, engagement. It's within the support of that relationship," Craven said. "It's the children that aren't getting that that have the most difficulty in school."

Tags: parenting, education

Green Mountain Coffee investing in financial education for farmers

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:13:20 GMT

clipped by: BirdBarista

Clip Source: www.marketwatch.com

The Clinton Global Initiative announces an innovative partnership between Green Mountain Coffee,

and Root Capital to improve the financial literacy and management skills of rural-based businesses in Latin America and Africa, which include many of Green Mountain Coffee's coffee suppliers.

Green Mountain Coffee made a commitment at the Clinton Global Initiative to support Root Capital's efforts to expand its financial training with a five-year, $450,000 grant

In 2006, with Green Mountain Coffee's support, Root Capital launched a pilot financial education and training program in northern Latin America to develop basic financial and management skills among members and leaders of 50 grassroots businesses. Twelve of these enterprises are Green Mountain Coffee suppliers, representing over 10,000 members.

Green Mountain Coffee will enable Root Capital's launch of the program in South America and Africa

Lingo2Word

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:16:36 GMT

clipped by: akipta
clipper's remarks: Translate text messages from Lingo to plain English, or from plain English to lingo. Make your emails and text messages more exciting .

Clip Source: www.lingo2word.com

Translate text messages from Lingo to plain English, or from plain English to lingo .
Make your emails and text messages more exciting .

Tags: language text-messaging literacy technology

Claude Steiner - emotional literacy, transactional analysis, warm fuzzies and more

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:48:13 GMT

clipped by: Lexica

Clip Source: www.claudesteiner.com

Claude Steiner's Emotional Literacy

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I am a clinical psychologist and transactional analyst. Since 1965 I have studied, written, taught and lectured about the importance that the emotions --especially love--have in our lives and our personal power.

I have developed a program for emotional literacy training (click here) using transactional analysis (click here) principles and methods.

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My work in emotional literacy and cyber-psychology is informed by former activism (1969-1978) in Radical Psychiatry, a socially aware psychology and social psychiatry in which the abuse of power and its antidote--loving cooperation--were central themes.

Central America politics, propaganda, and even the California psychologist oral exams are additional interests

Tags: psychology, development, children

Sue Thomas, e-lit professor

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:15:13 GMT

clipped by: yitzakcu
clipper's remarks: transliteracy

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

For others, like Sue Thomas, professor of new media at Leicester's De Monfort University, the way forward (or sideways) is precisely to abandon our print fixation. This is why she rejects the term "e-lit" (with its reference to an old-fashioned notion of 'literature') in favour of "new media writing" or, better still, "transliteracy" - which covers all forms of literacy ranging from orality to social networking sites. Amerika, pope of avant-pop-cum-new-media guru has referred to himself as a designwriter, a remixologist, a visual jockey (VJ) and, of course, a net artist, over the years, whereas he used to be a plain old writer in his younger days. This isn't just a question of semantics. As Grigar points out, "one of the most difficult aspects of e-lit is the ability to talk about it fast enough, so fast is the landscape changing".

Alphabet vs Goddess

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:36:25 GMT

clipped by: lhafer
clipper's remarks: book

Clip Source: www.alphabetvsgoddess.com

While McLuhan, Logan, and others have explored many of the effects that alphabetic literacy has had upon Western history, I wish to narrow the focus to a single question: how did the invention of the alphabet affect the balance of power between men and women?

Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading?

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:18:43 GMT

clipped by: edtechnnorris

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books.

But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and society should not discount. The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might otherwise spend most of her leisure time watching television, to read and write.

Clearly, reading in print and on the Internet are different. On paper, text has a predetermined beginning, middle and end, where readers focus for a sustained period on one author’s vision. On the Internet, readers skate through cyberspace at will and, in effect, compose their own beginnings, middles and ends.

SimpleAssessment - the simple yet powerful tool that takes the hassle out of assessing student technology proficiency

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:12:06 GMT

clipped by: akipta
clipper's remarks: Load your students into this student technology assessment tool and the assessment process starts automatically. Each student receives a comprehensive assessment on basic technology literacy. The student technology assessment was designed based on the ISTE NETS for Students and can be completed in about one class period. You'll be provided with both a Pre- and Post-Assessment so you can track progress throughout the school year.

Clip Source: www.simpleassessment.com

Completely uncomplicated. Just load and go.
Load your students into this student technology assessment tool and the assessment process starts automatically. Each student receives a comprehensive assessment on basic technology literacy. The student technology assessment was designed based on the ISTE NETS for Students and can be completed in about one class period. You'll be provided with both a Pre- and Post-Assessment so you can track progress throughout the school year.

Why SimpleAssessment?

...because NCLB Part D, Section 2402 states that all school districts must assess the technology proficiency of their students by the eighth grade.

Tags: assessment tool technology

Neurolinguistic Sorcery in the Media

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:16:05 GMT

clipped by: cakebelly
clipper's remarks: Some responses:

NLP is not occult paranoia
Submitted by Bubblefish on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 11:47.

I have some very serious reservations about some, but not all, of these accusations.

One, I absolutely agree with the over arching theme, which is the bullying and manipulative linguistic tactics used by many in the media, and Sean Hannity most definitely. He's probably the worst in the mainstream and personally, I really detest the guy for that. We can agree there is extreme manipulation here and these manipulations can be modeled by lingistics, NLP or otherwise.

However, the interpretation of the 666 as sorcery and the insertion of a 'magical war' I don't think is warranted by the evidence given, nor is the ok symbol argument convincing to imply such a reality. Sure, we can find dual meaning in communication, but's it more than just 'dual'. It's multilayered and potentially there are numerous interpretations of reality, all of which can used mutually shared language.

The ok

Clip Source: www.realitysandwich.com

Insanity with Colmes

In a three part series called Interpreting Media, Youtube auteur adampants2007 analyzes the neurolinguistic programming techniques used
by Fox News' Hannity and Colmes. Sean Hannity interviews controversial University of Wisconsin professor Kevin Barrett about his Islamic
Studies course that includes 9/11 conspiracy theories. The bias becomes apparent in Hannity's techniques of repeatedly interrupting and
discrediting Professor Barrett and even verbally linking him to terrorists and anti-Semites. The video also points out Hannity's possible use of
the OK sign to signify 666, a neural-linguistic programming hex on the interviewee. As the video's annotations point out, this is not just about Fox News but about media literacy and idenitifying manipulation and bias, both liberal and conservative.

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Doing What Works

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:32:04 GMT

clipped by: jamminsoul
clipper's remarks: Issues in Education that will eventually contain learning about the issues, best practices and how to incorporate into teaching practice.

Clip Source: dww.ed.gov

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The Literacy Site & Click a Day

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:58:15 GMT

clipped by: akipta

Clip Source: www.theliteracysite.com

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