Student skills[edit] Typically, literacy in the classroom has focused on the following building blocks: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, text comprehension (NEIRTIC, 2004). However, as the electronic age permeates our society, students need to be prepared for jobs that require further literacy skills. Some of these skills include the following (Kinzer, 2003, para. 15): Keyboarding Layout and design skills for creating presentations and web pages Critical thinking about video, still images, audio, text, and interrelationships, and how they jointly convey intended and unintended messages Skill in using a variety of software types Information gathering, retrieval, and copying into presentation formats Scaling images

We also offer an approach to learning, design and program building that can expand the opportunities afforded by a changing media environment while minimizing the risks.

Knowing how to read, write, and participate in the digital world has become the 4th basic foundational skill next to the three Rs—reading, writing, and arithmetic—in a rapidly evolving, networked world.

Community of Online Research Assignments

Here's one way higher education can help: teach critical thinking modes that bring scholarly best practices to the modern web.

Fundamentally, these efforts miss because what’s needed is not an understanding of news but of the web.

We need everyone to have the skills to read, write and participate in the digital world

Web Literacy