This graphic was created with a Web 2.0 tool I am learning at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation this week. The tool is called "Tagul" for my teacher friends....it is really neat and much more useful than "Wordle" so I hope you will try it!
More important than the tool is the review of the fact that the skill set needed to be successful in this century is changing. The text was taken from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) who have published the definition of the "new literacy". Included in that definition is the following:
- Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
- Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
- Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes
- Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information
- Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
- Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
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