The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have defined literacy as “the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.” They go on to say that “literacy involves…
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Friend sites: How to express hatred without words
by Mariana • • 0 Comments
It’s funny that Kim posted these videos about the social problems that leak from the digital world into the real world through websites like Facebook because just this week one of my friends on Facebook posted this: For those of…
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Scouting Report: ESL Class blog
by Mariana • • 0 Comments
In the field of ESL teaching, the four skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) are what are considered to be key components in achieving fluency in a language. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have drafted a…
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The Journey to Literacy: Taking A Virtual Voyage
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
Educators from pre-school to university are concerned these days with computer literacy. And no wonder, since computers have become an unavoidable feature of modern life, both in the business world and on the personal level. Computer literacy today is as…
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To Blog or Not to Blog, That is the Question
by Mike • • 1 Comment
The title may sound corny, but the topic (Using Blogs in the Composition Classroom) is worth reading about. What are blogs and how can they be utilized in the composition classroom? This is the question I will explore in my…
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Scouting Report- Xbox 360
by MaryAnn Macedo • • 1 Comment
For my scouting report, I looked at one of the past Xbox Live interviews on file from March–a girl (a college student in Illinois) uses Live to tutor students from the local high school in math. While English is definitely…