Literacy: Charlotte’s Web Meets the World Wide Web

As new technologies change how we communicate, what effect
are they having on how we teach and learn to read and write?

By Julie M. Wood

Resources and Further Information:

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S. Birkerts. The Gutenberg Elegies. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994.

Book Raps. Australian web site of book discussion groups for elementary students. http://rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/projects/book-rap/index.html

Book Reviews. Children can read book reviews written by others and post their own. www.i-site.on.ca/booknook.html

BreadNet, Breadloaf School of English, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753. www.breadnet.middlebury.edu/blsefiles/BLSEBnet.html

B.C. Bruce. "Literacy Technologies: What Stance Should We Take?" Journal of Literacy Research 29, no. 2 (1997): 289—309.

Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), 39 Cross St., Suite 201, Peabody, MA 01960; tel: 978-531-8555; TTY: 978-538-3110; fax: 978-531-0192. www.cast.org

S. Christian. Exchanging Lives: Middle School Writers On-Line. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1997.

J.W. Cunningham. "How Will Literacy Be Defined in the New Millenium?" Reading Research Quarterly 35, no. 1 (2000): 64.

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D.J. Leu and D.D. Leu. Teaching with the Internet: Lessons from the Classroom. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon, 1999.

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S. Papert. The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap. Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1996.

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D.N. Perkins. "Why We Can’t Let the Technological Tail Wag the Pedagogical Dog." Education Bulletin 40, no. 2 (June 1996): 32.

N. Postman. Technopoly. New York: Random House, 1992.

N. Postman. Amusing Ourselves to Death. New York: Penguin, 1995.

The Read In! Event 2000. Web site for students and authors to celebrate children’s literature. www.readin.org

G. Salomon. "Of Mind and Media: How Culture’s Symbolic Forms Affect Learning and Thinking." Phi Delta Kappan 78 (January 1997): 375—380.

G. Salomon and D. Perkins. "Learning in Wonderland: What Do Computers Really Offer Education?" In S.T. Kerr, ed., Technology and the Future of Schooling. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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J.M. Wood. "The Teaching of Vocabulary by Computer Software: A Content Analysis." Unpublished qualifying paper, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, 1997.

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