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Building and Enhancing New Literacies Across the Curriculum Pre-

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is digital literacy?

a)

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

b)

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

communities and the world as the classroom.

c)

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

d)

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.

2.

Which is NOT a purpose of Global Education?

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

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

3.

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

a)

Basic Literacy

b)

Comprehension Literacy

c)

Digital Literacy

d)

Functional Literacy

4.

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

a)

Flexibility

b)

Leadership

c)

Enthusiasm

d)

Initiatives

5.

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

a)

True

b)

False

6.

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

a)

Literacy skills

b)

Learning skills

c)

Life skills

d)

Technology Literacy

7.

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.

a)

Globalization   and   Multicultural   Literacy

b)

Social and Financial Literacies

c)

Media and Cyber/Digital Literacies

d)

Critical Literacy

8.

Young children learn to

discriminate between the similarities and differences in spoken language.

a)

Book handling skills

b)

Concepts of print

c)

Vocabulary development

d)

Phonological Awareness

9.

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

a)

Begins to interpret and evaluate symbols

b)

Develops interest in and involvement with books and other

print materials

c)

Shows interest in photos, pictures, and drawings

d)

Shows interest in songs, rhymes and stories

10.

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

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

a)

Book handling skills

b)

Concepts of print

c)

Phonological awareness

d)

Vocabulary development

11.

How can teachers promote social change in the classroom?

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12.

Give 1 strategy in teaching alphabet knowledge to emergent learners.

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13.

What is a Global Classroom?

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14.

What is UNESCO's definition of "literacy" in 2004?

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15.

What is the difference between traditional literacy and 21st century literacy?

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16.

This is “a form of knowledge, competence and skills in a particular field or

area”.

a)

Reading

b)

Literacy

c)

Skill

d)

21st Century Skill

17.

This literacy aims to help develop student's awareness on how to effective manage natural resources.

a)

Media and Cyber/Digital Literacies

b)

Critical Literacy

c)

Eco literacy

d)

Globalization and Multicultural Literacy

18.

This focuses on how students can discern facts, publishing outlets and the technology behind them.

a)

Life Skills

b)

Literacy Skills

c)

Learning Skills

d)

Practical Skills

19.

Which of the following is the best way to teach book handling skills?

a)

Make a name worm

b)

Practice page turning

c)

Re-read stories.

d)

Sing songs

20.

What is lifelong learning?

a)

A form of self-initiated education that is focused on personal development.

b)

Expands the opportunity to use telecommunications and other communication technologies for sharing and acting upon ideas in the global village.

c)

Is considered the Integration within the subject areas itself or intradisciplinary curriculum.