Literacy Today January/February 2016

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LITERACY TODAY | January/February 2016

Free digital learning lessons

As you read through this year’s

Digital Literacies issue, you may

be left craving even more ideas

for fostering digital literacy in your

classroom. We recommend starting

with these E-ssentials and Bridges

units, free for members, found on

literacyworldwide.org:

■ “Instruction with Multimodal,

Multiple Texts,” by Jill Castek

for the Literacy Practices That

Adolescents Deserve E-ssentials

series

■ “Digital Discussions: Using Web

2.0 Tools to Communicate,

Collaborate, and Create,” a Bridges

unit by Brian Kissel, Karen Wood,

Katie Stover, and Kim Heintschel

■ “Cyborg Anthropology: An

Interdisciplinary Unit for Grades

11–12,” a Bridges unit by Alexandra

Seaha and Judy Randi

The undergraduate committee of

ILA’s Murray Area Council in Kentucky

and their local library partner twice a

year to host Lounging With Literacy,

in which families come together for

a story-hour, autographs, and photos

with their favorite book characters. An

average of 85 children and parents

attend, with all children receiving free

books from the library.

BY THE NUMBERS

4 out of 5

Number of teachers who reported they

would use classroom technology more

frequently during the 2015–2016 school

year, according to a survey from Front Row

Education

75%

Amount of

teachers who

noted an

increase in

support for

technology from

administration

$20 M

Donation from

Mark Zuckerberg to

EducationSuperHighway,

a nonprofi t

that improves Internet

access in schools

77%

Amount of schools in

the U.S. with reliable

Internet connections,

according to an

EducationSuperHighway

report, up from 30% just

three years ago

Age at which students

starting kindergarten will

experience signifi cant

benefi ts, including

reducing inattention

and hyperactivity by

73% at age 11, according

to a new study from

the National Bureau of

Economic Research

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What’s new?

Look for these updates and more from ILA:

■ Free registration will be off ered to all undergrad preservice

teachers to attend our 2016 conference. (ilaconference.org)

■ The Foundation for Impact on Literacy and Learning, formerly

the USA TODAY Charitable Foundation, is now a supporting

organization of ILA. (literacyworldwide.org/foundation)

■ Meet four faces of literacy—people from diff erent walks of life

who have overcome illiteracy—on our new Take Action page.

(literacyworldwide.org/takeaction)

Lounging

With Literacy

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