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Literacy in the Digital Age

Second Edition
By: R.W. Burniske

Foreword by Donna Ogle

Help students become ethical, well-informed online communicators!

This essential resource from an internationally recognized expert offers an in-depth look at the advantages and challenges of digital-age technologies and illustrates how teachers can help students use the Internet intelligently and responsibly. Focusing on literacy and critical thinking, the text provides teachers with specific case studies and guidelines to help students develop their ability to:

Use language critically and tactfully
Assess visual content on the Web
Critically evaluate Web sites for validity and reliability
Practice ethics and etiquette on the Internet
Analyze online information for credibility, logic, and embedded emotional content

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412957465
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2007
Page Count: 152
Publication date: December 11, 2007

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"Burniske shows us how to expand our instruction so that electronic literacy becomes an essential component of our classrooms. He challenges us to realize our commitment to develop our students as critical and reflective language users. This is a book all serious literacy professionals need to read and discuss with colleagues."
—From the Foreword by Donna Ogle

Help students become ethical, well-informed online communicators!

Living in today's digital age provides a wealth of learning opportunities and a wide range of communication possibilities. Along with its many benefits, the World Wide Web poses real challenges to even the most informed user, from misinformation to unedited work to plagiarism. How can we teach students to use the Internet intelligently and responsibly?

In this insightful resource, internationally recognized professor and author R. W. Burniske takes an in-depth look at the Internet's advantages and risks and shows teachers how to incorporate technology to help students communicate clearly, accurately, and purposefully. Using specific case studies, teacher tips, and practical ideas, this valuable resource gives teachers guidelines to help students develop their ability to:

Use language critically and tactfully
Assess visual content on the Web
Critically evaluate Web sites for validity and reliability
Practice ethics and etiquette on the Internet
Analyze online information for credibility, logic, and embedded emotional content

Literacy in the Digital Age, Second Edition, provides everything educators need to make digital literacy a vital part of their classroom instruction.

Key features

This book includes:

Ready-to-use classroom technology for expanding student literacy and critical thinking
Teacher tips for introducing new ideas to students
Ways to help students critically evaluate websites
Guidelines for developing collaborative international student learning projects

Author(s)

R.W. Burniske

Table of Contents

In Tribute

Foreword by Donna Ogle

About the Author

Introduction

Cyberwriter at Work: The Design of This Book

How to Read This Book: A Linear Approach to Hypertext

1. Media Literacy: Broadening the Definition of Computer Literacy

The Curricular Conundrum

The Rhetorical Triangle: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos

Media Literacy Challenge #1: The Rhetoric of Computer Advertising

Is Everything an Argument?

Media Literacy Challenge #2: Arguments "R" Us

The Technology of Writing

Media Literacy Challenge #3: Musical Chairs and Writing Technology

Civil Literacy

2. Civil Literacy: The Cyberpilot's License

The Cyberpilot's License

Know Your Vehicle

Rights and Responsibilities

Who and What Rules the Airwaves?

Piloting Skills & Netiquette

Intellectual Property in Cyberspace: An Overview

Civil Literacy Challenge #1: Borrowing Without Stealing

Civil Literacy Challenge #2: Putting out the Flames

3. Discourse Literacy: Beyond the Chat Room

Discourse Literacy Challenge #1: Hearing Voices

Discourse Literacy Challenge #2: Imitating Voices

Greater Expectations: Synchronous Online Discussions

Case Study: Paul M.

Establish the Rules, Play by the Rules

Discourse Literacy Challenge #3: Role Playing Online

Case Study: Online Role Playing

Personal Literacy

4. Personal Literacy: Discovering Oneself Online

Initiation Stories

Fostering Personal Literacy

Personal Literacy Challenge #1: The Why List

Why Ask Why? Increasing Student Awareness

Why Ask Why? Inviting Response

Case Study: The Why List Online

Personal Literacy Challenge #2: The Hypertext Why List

Beyond Personal Inquiry: Community Literacy

5. Community Literacy: Composing Ourselves in a Virtual Community

Community Literacy Challenge #1: The Sequential Story

Case Study: A Telecollaborative, Sequential Story

Community Literacy Challenge #2: Putting E-mail in the Right E-envelope

Course Web Sites: A Community Work in Progress

Visual Literacy

6. Visual Literacy: Web Sites, Rhetorically Speaking

What Are You Looking At?

Case Study: The State of The Onion

Seeing Is Believing (and Other Satirical Lessons)

Measuring the Sum of a Web Site's Parts

Visual Literacy Challenge #1: The Rhetorical Analysis of Web Documents

Visual Literacy Challenge #2: Web Sites and Evaluative Arguments

Global Literacy

7. Evaluative Literacy: Peer Reviews, Electronic Portfolios, and Online Learning Records

Evaluative Literacy Challenge #1: The Hypertext Writing Workshop

Case Study: Electronic Portfolios

Case Study: Online Learning Records

Pedagogical Literacy

8. Pedagogical Literacy: Plugging Into Electronic Pedagogy

Mr. Wynegar's Pastime: Tradition and the Individual Teacher

Ms. Sabadilla and The Electronic Chalkboard

Electronic Pedagogy: The Web Site

Appendix: Index of Web Sites

References

Further Readings

Index

Reviews

"Burniske shows us how to expand our instruction so that electronic literacy becomes an essential component of our classrooms. He challenges us to realize our commitment to develop our students as critical and reflective language users. This is a book all serious literacy professionals need to read and discuss with colleagues."

From the Foreword by Donna Ogle

"An important, key exploration of how teachers can help students become good online communicators."

The Bookwatch, June 2008
Midwest Book Review

Other Titles in: Classroom Applications of Technology | Literacy, K-12

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