Building and Enhancing New Literacies Across the Curriculum Pre-

What is digital literacy?

• Learning how to communicate and collaborate with peers from diverse cultures.

• It involves learner-centered and culturally responsive teaching and learning practices using schools,

  communities and the world as the classroom.

• The ability to find, evaluate, utilize, and create information using technologies and multimedia.

• Helps students to develop the skills, attitudes and values which enable people to work together to

  bring about change and take control of their own lives.

Which is NOT a purpose of Global Education?

• It involves subject-centered and culturally responsive teaching and learning practices using schools, communities and the world as the classroom.

• Enables people to understand the links between their own lives and those of people throughout the world.

• Increases understanding of the economic, cultural, political and environmental influences which shape our lives.

• It works towards achieving a more just and sustainable world in which power and resources are more equitably shared.

Being able to cook by following a menu is under what type of literacy?

• Basic Literacy

• Comprehension Literacy

• Digital Literacy

• Functional Literacy

Which of the following is not a 21st century skills?

• Flexibility

• Leadership

• Enthusiasm

• Initiatives

Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.

• True

• False

Which 21st century skill focuses on developing student's mental processes to help them in the modern work environment?

• Literacy skills

• Learning skills

• Life skills

• Technology Literacy

This literacy addresses the increasing need to discern the underlying messages behind the new texts for the 21st century, particularly in an ever-increasingly multicultural society   where   ideas, cultures   and   ideologies   vie   with   one   another   for   power and dominance in the mind of the masses.

• Globalization   and   Multicultural   Literacy

• Social and Financial Literacies

• Media and Cyber/Digital Literacies

• Critical Literacy

Young children learn to

discriminate between the similarities and differences in spoken language.

• Book handling skills

• Concepts of print

• Vocabulary development

• Phonological Awareness

Which of the following is NOT an indicator of developing emergent literacy?

• Begins to interpret and evaluate symbols

• Develops interest in and involvement with books and other

  print materials

• Shows interest in photos, pictures, and drawings

• Shows interest in songs, rhymes and stories

Children develop the understanding that different forms of print, such as

signs, letters, menus, storybooks, and magazines have different functions.

• Book handling skills

• Concepts of print

• Phonological awareness

• Vocabulary development