- Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century
- An Educator’s Guide to Web 2.0
It is important to acknowledge the supreme importance of reading, arithmetic, and writing. They are more important today than at any point in our history. However, it is equally important that we expand our notions of what it means to be a reader, a processor of information and a communicator, when information is increasingly networked, digital, and overwhelming, and to understand the new ethical implications of the new information environment.
There are a series of new technologies that have emerged in recent months that have so changed the way that we use information and the Internet, that they are increasingly being called Web 2.0. The new effect is that people are beginning to connect with each other in new ways, through their content.