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16.9.10

21st Century Literacies (NoodleTools)

NoodleTools has a great collection of teacher resources to help students represent their learning in a variety of ways. (See list below. Links at the Noodletools site. )

Basic Language Literacy
Online Reading Strategies (A Think Aloud)
Online Reading Strategies (PowerPoint)
Phonetic and Pictorial Alphabets
New Meanings
Paragraph Art
Argument and Persuasion
Constructing an Argument
Resources for Young Writers
Literary Club
Bone From a Dry Sea (from a factual quiz to thinking activity)
Socratic Seminar Rubric (.pdf)

Visual Literacy
Reading Photographs: Handout
Visual Literacy Project: Plan | Brainstorming

Spatial Literacy
Three Information Literacy Questions to Ask About a Map: Handout

Historical Literacy
Primary Sources
Reading the Context: Martin Luther King
Turn of the Century Child (An American Memory Fellows Project)

Cultural Literacy
Ethnography Project

Information Literacy
Building Blocks of Research
Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Need
Choosing Invisible Web Databases
Teaching the Commons (Powerpoint)
The Ethical Researcher
Who knows what...and how do I know it?: Handout
Deconstructing a Web Site: Advocacy or Education?

Political Literacy and News Media Literacy
Reading Media Photographs
You are Shocked
Libraries and the First Amendment

Scientific Literacy
Genetics #1, #2
Global Warming: Science and Society

Mathematical Literacy
Job Search: Mathematician
Finding and Using Data
Students' Financial Literacy Eroding (San Francisco Chronicle)