reported by Brian Scott, LiteracyNews.comLocal Georgia mom, Susan Ellis, struggling to help her frustrated five-year-old son with Autism learn to write the alphabet, finally created her own solution. After two years of occupational therapy, she realized she must teach her son, Ryan, through the tool he responds to best: television. Together with her son’s occupational [...]
reported by Brian Scott, LiteracyNews.comThis summer, when Americans catch up on their favorite reading, they will also be enjoying a beloved American pastime that research shows is waning. According to a study by the National Endowment for the Arts, Americans of every age are consistently reading less. The study revealed an overall decline of 10 [...]
reported by Brian Scott, LiteracyNews.comThree Miami elementary schools will be among the newest sites for its successful Toyota Family Literacy Program (TFLP). TFLP ? the first nationwide program of its kind to focus on the needs of Hispanic and other immigrant families ? is coordinated by the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL), the country’s [...]
Urfist Info préconise, avec raison, la lecture de cet article: Transliteracy: Crossing divides (First Monday, vol. 12, n° 12) + d’autres liens sur la question dans le billet. (Source: pintiniblog) More: continued here
Un nouveau concept vient d’apparaître,à ajouter au florilège des nombreuses « literacies »: la transliteracy. Il est expliqué en détaildans un texte collectif important, écrit par plusieurschercheurs américains et britanniques, publié dans levolume 12 de First Monday, du 3 décembre dernier :« Transliteracy:Crossing divides », écrit par SueThomas, Chris Joseph, Jess Laccetti, Bruce Mason, Simon [...]
Penny Beile just added a comment to my November 14th entry with some useful information – I’ll highlight it in this main post as it might otherwiese get overlooked. This is a link to the entry and comment. Penny mentions the University of Central Florida’s initiative in adopting “information fluency” as a SACS quality enhancement [...]
Zayed University, Dubai, organised the First Information Literacy Network Professional Development Conference on December 8 and 9 2007. The programme (together with a list of participants in the Gulf IL network ) are the main items currently on the website of the recently formed Information Literacy Network of the Gulf Region, at http://www.informationliteracynetwork.net/ The confrence [...]
Nazim, Mohammad and Ahmad, Moin (2007) Research Trends in Information Literacy: A Bibliometric Study. SRELS Journal of Information Management 44(1):pp. 53-62. (Source: E-LIS) More: continued here
Slaying myths of video games started as a series of articles earlier this fall but hasn’t finished discussing all 7 “myths.” Via John Rice’s Educational Games Research blog, back in October John linked to Lee Wilson’s ongoing articles in Techlearning. Lee started a series of articles that discussed the seven myths of video games, part [...]
A Merry Christmas to all from the Information Literacy WeblogPhoto by Sheila Webber: the Christmas wreath I made this year. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued here