[MOSAIC] Online Comprehension

[Joy]

Maybe I didn't describe what Dr. Leu was talking about accurately enough. He's not talking about literacy as decoding per se, but as using specific strategies to understand information online. His description of these strategies brought connections to Mosaic and Strategies That Work to my mind. The strategies he outlines are:
   
  Understand and Develop Questions - both teacher and student generated
  Locate Information - Using a Search Engine
  Locate Information - Within a Website
  Critically Evaluate Information - Identifying Bias and Stance, Reliability, and Accuracy
  Synthesize Information
  Communicate Information
   
  He is describing a new type of literacy necessary to use the online tools to learn. He also talked about learning to learn.
   
  There is more information here: 
  http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/events.html
  http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/teachreading35/session5/index.html


                Joy/NC/4
  jwidmann at rocketmail.com
  How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org
   









       
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