Literacy in a Digital World : Teaching and Learning in the Age of Information

Content: Cover
 Half-title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Dedication
 Contents
 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 1 PAUSE ON LITERACY FAST FORWARD
 Rewind to Referencing Past
 Literacy Through a Glass Darkly
 Literacy and Schooling
 On the Horns of Plato\'s Dilemma
 2 EXPANDING LITERACY
 Literacy as Discourse: Theory at the Turn of the 21st Century
 The Discourse of Schooling
 Literacy Myths and Their Consequences
 When Past and Future Collide
 Erasing the Myths of Literacy
 Avoiding False Dichotomies
 3 DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER
 Mass Communication Study at the Crossroads. Scanning the FaultlineIn Search of Digital Literacy
 Whatcha Doin\' Marshall McLuhan?
 From Oral to Print to Electronic and Back Again
 Converging Literacy, Communication, and Educational Theory
 4 SPLINTERING LITERACIES
 A New Literacy for a New Age
 A Case for Multiliteracies
 5 BEYOND ACCESS
 Educational Technology: Tools in Search of a Theory
 Networked Computers as Literacy
 Computers as Literacy
 The Sum of the Parts
 Literacy Tools in Action: Crossing the Divide
 Reframing the Access Issue
 6 REPRESENTING LITERACY IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION
 Linking Literacies
 The Literacy of Libraries. A Closer Look at Visual LiteracyVisual Literacy in Practice: Codes and Contexts
 (What in the World Is) Media Literacy?
 Media Education in Europe
 Defining Media Literacy
 Constituencies for Media Literacy Education
 Media Teaching About Media
 Media Education in Print
 7 TREADING WATER: MEDIA EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES
 Dissecting the Critical Viewing Movement of the 1970s
 Conflicting Purposes of Literacy
 Protecting Other People\'s Children
 Jammin\' for a Better Tomorrow
 8 MOVING TOWARD AN ACQUISITION MODEL OF MEDIA EDUCATION
 An Arts-Based Approach to Media Education. The San Francisco Digital Media Center: An Arts-Based Approach in ActionCritical Democratic Approaches to Media Education
 9 REPRESENTING DIVERSITY-MEDIA ANALYSIS IN PRACTICE
 Diversity and the Myth of Educational Failure
 Teaching in the Diverse Classroom
 Diversity and the Pop Culture Canon
 The Case for Cognitive Apprenticeships in Language and Literacy Learning
 Cognitive Apprenticeships in the Diverse Classroom
 Cognitive Apprenticeships for Media Education
 Cognitive Apprenticeships With Student-Produced Work
 The Case for Video Production in the Diverse Classroom. Video as a Scaffolding MediumRepresentation and Reproduction
 10 TOWARD AN INTERACTIVE EDUCATION
 Coming to Consensus
 The Marriage of Analysis and Production
 In Search of Media Education Standards
 Exemplary Media Education Standards in the United States
 Research and Practice
 Scaling Up Local Critical Literacy Efforts
 Why Media Education?
 AFTERWORD: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
 Literacy in a Rural Setting
 Literacy in an Urban Landscape
 APPENDIX: Global Multiliteracy Networks
 REFERENCES
 AUTHOR INDEX
 SUBJECT INDEX.