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=Welcome to the HMS Information LIteracy Wiki: Below is a short summary and links of information literacy in the 21st century. The quote, resources and links were found on the Noodletools.com website.=

= 21st Century Literacies = In //Intelligence Reframed// Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our [|understanding] of important questions, topics, and themes." Today's readers become literate by [|learning to read] the [|words and symbols] in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to [|choose and modify] their own communication based on the [|rhetorical situation]. [|Point of view] is created by the reader, the audience and the medium.

Basic Language Literacy

 * [|Online Reading Strategies] (A Think Aloud)
 * [|Online Reading Strategies] (PowerPoint)
 * [|Phonetic and Pictorial Alphabets]
 * [|New Meanings]
 * [|Paragraph Art]
 * [|Argument and Persuasion]
 * [|Constructing an Argument]
 * [|Resources for Young Writers]
 * [|Literary Club]
 * [|Bone From a Dry Sea] (from a factual quiz to thinking activity)
 * [|Socratic Seminar Rubric] (.pdf)

Visual Literacy

 * [|Reading Photographs] : [|Handout]
 * [|Visual Literacy Project] : [|Plan] | [|Brainstorming]

Spatial Literacy

 * [|Three Information Literacy Questions to Ask About a Map] : [|Handout]

Historical Literacy

 * [|Primary Sources]
 * [|Reading the Context: Martin Luther King]
 * [|Turn of the Century Child] (An American Memory Fellows Project)

Cultural Literacy

 * [|Ethnography Project]
 * [|Cultural Competence and New Authority]

Information Literacy

 * [|Building Blocks of Research]
 * [|Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Need]
 * [|Choosing Invisible Web Databases]
 * [|Teaching the Commons] (Powerpoint)
 * [|The Ethical Researcher]
 * [|Who knows what? A School-wide Lens on Evaluation] : [|Handout]
 * Deconstructing a Web Site: [|Advocacy or Education?]
 * [|Tricky but Not Impossible: Smart Inclusion Strategies for School Librarians]

Political Literacy and News Media Literacy

 * [|Reading Media Photographs]
 * [|You are Shocked]
 * [|Libraries and the First Amendment]

Scientific Literacy

 * Genetics [|#1], [|#2]
 * [|Global Warming: Science and Society]

Mathematical Literacy
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 * [|Job Search: Mathematician]
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