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UK Literacy targets for four and five year old . . . ?

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social media literacy and pedagogy

Sort by Doctor Daisy (Free subscription) - 4 hours ago

As much as I enjoy the trendy books out there on the internet and collaborative software, Howard Rheingold is the only author of such texts that I know of who also actively considers social media’s impact upon teaching. Whether it’s his video letting his students see his point of view when looking out into [...]

Angola: Oma Secretary General Urges Women to Adhere to Literacy Programmes

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The secretary general of the ruling MPLA party's women wing (OMA), Luzia Inglês Van-Dúnem "Inga" on Thursday defended in Kuito city (central Bié province) the need for women to adhere to literacy programmes.

Floyd explains importance of literacy

Sort by MLB (Free subscription) - 07/23/2008

Floyd explains importance of literacy

Paper Tigers on Multicultural Literacy

Sort by mitali's fire escape (Free subscription) - 07/22/2008

The must-link-to-and-visit Paper Tigers site is featuring an issue on multicultural literacy, offering up a fascinating interview with blogger and book advocate Jen Robinson and another with author Monica Brown , who discusses the links between literacy and culture and highlights the importance of bilingual books. Come visit me on the Fire Escape !

[transliteracy, m-learning & africa]

Sort by Jess (Free subscription) - 07/23/2008

The title is quite a mouthful but still doesn't really get at the enormous potential that Alex Smith's manifesto for African Mobile Literacy suggests. Alex has had the brilliant idea to translate stories into African languages and make them available in formats available for dissemination via mobile (seems to tie in well to the PART group's research into transliteracy ). The idea has come about due...

Financial Literacy and the Increasing Relevancy in our Economy

Sort by John Hope Bryant (Free subscription) - 07/24/2008

In my dual role as founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE for the past 16 years, and vice chairman of the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, I have had a unique opportunity to gain an on-the-ground, national...

New literacy programme to be launched

Sort by Hindu (Free subscription) - 07/23/2008

KOCHI: The government will launch an informal education programme across the State to provide primary education equivalent to Class IV for those aged up to 60 years who could not pursue formal schooling. Addressing a press conference ...

Cartoon: Biblical Literacy

Sort by Out of Ur (Free subscription) - 07/21/2008

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Test Your Civic Literacy

Sort by Below The Beltway (Free subscription) - 07/21/2008

Take the Civic Literacy Report test. Here’s how I did: You answered 57 out of 60 correctly — 95.00 % Average score for this quiz during July: 71.7% Average score since September 18, 2007: 71.7% Missed three questions I should have gotten right if I thought more about them.

The Benefits of Media Literacy

Sort by NigerianMuse Articles (Free subscription) - 07/21/2008

The Benefits of Media Literacy By Chido Onumah Thanks to advances in media technology, children and youth are inundated daily with media messages that affect them in different ways. From our local stations that are hooked up permanently to Western channels, to specialty channels that are available with the press of a button, to thousands of pirated CDs and DVDs on sale along the streets of our major...

Authors unite against drive for toddler literacy

Sort by Times Online (Free subscription) - 07/24/2008

A powerful lobby of leading authors and educationists accuse the Government today of setting children up for failure.

Digital literacies

Sort by The Ed Techie (Free subscription) - 07/23/2008

I was asked to provide some thoughts on digital literacies for the Vice Chancellor, but rather than just do a dead email, in keeping with the spirit of the topic, I thought I'd put them in a blog post. This...

Thinking digital literacies

Sort by Phronesis (Free subscription) - 07/23/2008

I must be crazy. Today I spent a lot of time creating my email signature. Yes, that’s right… an email signature. I should use plain text. I do know. So my compromise is a small but elegant signature (which, needless to say, comes as html and not as an attachment). The process of preparing the signature got me thinking about some of the things you need to be doing in terms of basic digital literacies...

Information Literacy Competency and Readership Study of Five Specific Localities in Urban, Industrial and Semi-Urban Areas of Kolkata Metropolitan City

Sort by Dlist (Free subscription) - 07/22/2008

Dutta, Chaitali (2008) Information Literacy Competency and Readership Study of Five Specific Localities in Urban, Industrial and Semi-Urban Areas of Kolkata Metropolitan City. Technical Report.