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Reflections on 21st Century Literacy Skills

Describe the most striking revelation you had about the teaching of new literacy skills to your students as a result of this course. The most striking revelation I had about the teaching of new literacy skills involved how detailed the 21st Century Literacy skills are. I had not thought about the numerous skills the students required to complete the internet research projects that I had assigned in the past. Eagleton and Dobler (2007) assert “Reading on the Web is similar to reading in print, but … web reading is more complex than print reading.” Students must learn not only to decode and comprehend the material they read on the web, but also they must transfer the information to their own application. They must be able to take notes, summarize and transform the information to fit their needs. Describe how the knowledge and experience gained in this course will influence your teaching practices going forward. As a computer teacher, having to use the new literacy skills in this class h...