Young Americans are reading more than just status updates and 140-character tweets. A new study by the Pew Research Center shows that among 16- to 29-year-olds, 8 in 10 have read a book in the past year. That’s compared with 7 in 10 among adults in general.
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/23/163414069/americas-facebook-generation-is-reading-strong
John Corcoran spent 17 years as a high school teacher without knowing how to read or write. This is Part 2 of the story of how he pulled it off and where it
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/sg/sg120222john_corcoran_part_2
"Literacy thus becomes an essential aspect of disciplinary practice, rather than a set of strategies or tools brought into the disciplines to improve reading and writing of subject-matter texts," Elizabeth Birr Moje wrote in Foregrounding the Disciplines in Secondary Literacy Teaching and Learning: A Call for Change , which appeared in the October 2008 issue of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.
Found this here at http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3041
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In a digital world do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed by it? That’s the big question renowned media theorist Douglas Rushkoff addresses in his new book Program or be Programmed.t
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/futuretense/stories/2011/3141348.htm
For generations, the Zabaleen people have hauled away Cairo’s refuse and lived on the fringes of society. But thanks to an enterprising recycling school, the poor and mostly illiterate inhabitants of "Trash City" are receiving education and job training for the first time. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Egypt.
"Where would you look for the message in an electric light?" Spend nearly an hour with University of Toronto professor of English, Marshall McLuhan, as he discusses electronic technology, transportation, and communications. Also probing the issues of acoustic and personal space, McLuhan expresses his thoughts about print media and where it’s headed. Author of several books including The Medium is the Message, Canadian-born McLuhan was also director of the Center for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Originally aired on PBS-TV, 4 January, 1971 at 8:00 p.m. (Philadelphia, PA area), McLuhan appeared on "Speaking Freely," hosted by NBC’s Edwin Newman.
Download the file. Take notes. Observe how current and relevant much of McLuhan’s message is in today’s Internet world.
Tagged with mcluhan media technology future semiotics u of t television best literacy communications
LOL. OMG. BRB. Text messages and instant messenger programs have spawned a variety of abbreviations and shortcuts that are sneaking into colloquial English. In his new book, Txtng, David Crystal takes on the h8ers who want to know why kids these days are too lazy to use vowels.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97700573
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