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Researchers of Tomorrow is the longest and most intensive research to date on information-seeking practices and research behaviour among doctoral students. This gives it special significance in terms of the credibility of its findings, and these should be of key interest to a number of different stakeholders in the HE and research sector.
This past February, as one of the keynote speakers invited to contribute to a lively forum sponsored by the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT), I presented a bold challenge to my fellow professors that has since been quoted many times: “If we can be replaced by a computer screen, we should be.” Some were very alarmed at this statement, assuming I meant that all future learning should be online. But that wasn’t my meaning at all.
The move from page to screen: the multimodal reshaping of school English.
Authors:
Jewitt, Carey1
Source:
Visual Communication; Jun2002, Vol. 1 Issue 2, p171-195, 25p
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.
In the technological world of the Twenty-first Century, students must be information literate. They must have the skills to access, evaluate, and utilize information needed in their undergraduate experience and in their future endeavors. It is important for Geography majors to acquire these skills as part of their undergraduate education. At one institution of higher learning, information literacy learning is embedded in the Geography curriculum. An online instrument to assess information literacy skills is used to evaluate seniors. In this article, goals for information literacy, the creation of the information literacy assessment instrument and the results of assessment testing are discussed.
Introduction to the genre-based literacy research.It focuses on the concept of genre, its place within the model of language and context developed as systemic functional linguistics, and the implementation of this concept in learning to read and write.
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.
Wolf unterscheidet zwischen informativem, linearem Lesen und dem nachschaffenden, individuellen Lesen im Sinne Prousts. Sie hält letzteres mit guten Argumenten für bedroht - ein wenig wie ein gegen sich selbst gewendeter McLuhan.
Clive Thomson über die von Andrea Lunsford organisierte "Stanford Study of Writing". "The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. For them, writing is about persuading and organizing and debating, even if it's over something as quotidian as what movie to go see."
Über media literacy als Aufgabe von Journalismus-Fakultäten. Bezüge: Journalismus als Aktivität, nicht als Beruf (Shirky), Glaubwürdigkeit von Blogs und Online-Quellen (z.B. Gillmor)
"Thanks to the aggregator at Placeblogger.com, I realize that New Orleans is not unique in being a city that uses technologies to define itself; however, I believe that these NOLA bloggers speak more freely and with greater urgency..."
"The only thing we've been missing is a mathematical formula to quantify exactly how much (or how little) people read online. Now, thanks to new data, we have this as well."
"Deze website geeft een overzicht van initiatieven die in Nederland actief zijn op het gebied van mediawijsheid. De kaart is samengesteld op basis van een verkennend onderzoek dat Kennisland in 2007 heeft verricht."