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**Welcome to Litwits!** A WIKI that promotes technology in literacy



Sponsored by Wyoming Seminary Lower School Forty Fort, PA Middle-School Literacy

Contact us any time: Janel McCormick, jmccormick@wyomingseminary.org Kayanne Barilla, kbarilla@wyomingseminary.org

At Sem, our literacy department strives to produce effective communicators in the 21st century. The issue is that our forms of communication are growing and changing everyday. Technology is a huge part of that change, and we want our students to be comfortable with all forms of today's literacy:
 * technology - the ability to use computers and other technology to improve learning, productivity, and performance
 * information - the ability to find, evaluate, and synthesize information
 * global - the capacity to read, interpret, respond, and contextualize messages from a global perspective
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">visual - the ability to understand, produce, and communicate through visual images
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">digital - the ability to communicate with an ever-expanding community to discuss issues, gather information, and seek help

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Important guidelines from NCTE about 21st-century readers and writers: http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/21stcentdefinition

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ISTE's NETS for students: http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students.aspx • media type="custom" key="12449834" align="right"