Literacy in the Digital Age [Hardcover]

Expand students' digital literacy and critical thinking as they learn to evaluate the validity of written and visual content online and use language tactfully and ethically.Expand students' digital literacy and critical thinking as they learn to evaluate the validity of written and visual content online and use language tactfully and ethically. Burniske shows us how to expand our instruction so that electronic literacy becomes an essential component of our classrooms. He challenges us to realize our commitment to develop our students as critical and reflective language users. This is a book all serious literacy professionals need to read and discuss with colleagues. An important, key exploration of how teachers can help students become good online communicators. In Tribute
Foreword by Donna Ogle
About the Author
Introduction
Cyberwriter at Work: The Design of This Book
How to Read This Book: A Linear Approach to Hypertext
1. Media Literacy: Broadening the Definition of Computer Literacy
The Curricular Conundrum
The Rhetorical Triangle: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
Media Literacy Challenge #1: The Rhetoric of Computer Advertising
Is Everything an Argument?
Media Literacy Challenge #2: Arguments R Us
The Technology of Writing
Media Literacy Challenge #3: Musical Chairs and Writing Technology
Civil Literacy
2. Civil Literacy: The Cyberpilot's License
The Cyberpilot's License
Know Your Vehicle
Rights and Responsibilities
Who and What Rules the Airwaves?
Piloting Skills & Netiquette
Intellectual Property in Cyberspace: An Overview
Civil Literacy Challenge #1: Borrowing Without Stealing
Civil Literacy Challenge #2: Puttingl£Ù