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» 21st Century Information Fluency Project Portal 
Designed to train users in the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to fully understand Information Fluency. Focuses on teaching people how to locate, evaluate, and integrate digital information.
http://21cif.imsa.edu/
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» Bridging the Gap Between Literacy and Technology
This paper discusses using hypermedia to eliminate the language barriers that limited English proficient (LEP) students experience in the school settings.
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/jeilms/vol14/bermudez.htm
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» Critical Thinking in an Online World
Author Debra Jones argues that critical thinking is a key component of information literacy instruction in this conference paper from 1996.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/untangle/jones.html
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» Cult of the Palm Pilot
This essay appears on the Boston Phoenix webpage. Dan Kennedy reflects on the changes in literacy practices that palm computing makes possible.
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/features/99/07/22/CULT_OF_THE_PALM_PILOT.html
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» Digital Immortal
Article by Robert Lucky (pdf) questioning the continuing dominance of information technology. Original manuscript title: "Information Technology: Will This Too, Pass?"
http://www.argreenhouse.com/papers/rlucky/
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» Educational Technology Timeline
A timeline running from 40,000 BC to 2203 AD linking to important events in the development of educational technologies.
http://cter.ed.uiuc.edu/cter2/ci335/timeline.html
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» Educom Review: Information Literacy as a Liberal Art
The article suggests that a liberal education, originally based on the idea of the "Renaissance man" notion, should apply to technology as well. Shapiro and Hughes also, believe that this new definition of literacy affects the quality of libert
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/31231.html
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» First Monday: Technology and Education
This article deals with the mainstreaming of technology into the education system and the chaos that often ensues, the benefits of this change, and how it might be managed.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_3/hamza/index.html
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» FutureKids of South Florida
This organization is dedicated to "Helping teachers and children around the world master the power of the computer" along with providing "technology education solution for public and private schools as well as other organizations". Fut
http://www.futurekidsfla.com/
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» Higher Education in the Information Age
1997 symposium about the technological future and new models for delivery of education; new markets, competition, opportunities, issues, and business relationships in education; and the future of the undergraduate experience. Participant background and p
http://www.upenn.edu/heia/
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» Information Communication Technology in New Zealand
Supports the integration of Information Communication Technology and Information Literacy across the curriculum. It outlines the SAUCE model for research and problem solving and aims to provide articles and resources to encourage higher thinking in the cl
http://ictnz.com/
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» Information Literacy and the Net
A series of modules to help students explore Internet resources through engaging in different forms of literacy, including visual literacy. A staff development project developed by Bellingham Public Schools in Bellingham, Washington.
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/studentgal/onlineresearch/oldonline/literacy.htm
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» Information Literacy as a Liberal Art
Article which discusses literacy in a broad, historical sense, and lists seven dimensions of literacy.
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewarticles/31231.html
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» Information Literacy: A Clarification
Provides a history of literacy, including discussion of different concepts of literacy. It focuses specifically on the nebulous concept of "information literacy" and its impact on schools and libraries.
http://golum.riv.csu.edu.au/~llangfor/papers/paper5.html
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» International Society for Technology in Education
ISTE is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting the use of information technology to aid in learning, teaching of K-12 students and teachers. A major goal of the organization is to bridge the "digital divide".
http://www.iste.org/
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» Learning Online: Extending the Meaning of Community
A review of three programs from the Southeastern United States, which describes how online learning enhanced three organizations: SeniorNet, Neighborhood Networks, and Bridging the Gap of Isolation/Powering Up.
http://www.literacyonline.org/products/ncal/pdf/TR9901.pdf
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» Literacy in the Information Age
As we enter a new millennium, the technology that we use to communicate with each other is proceeding at a fantastic pace. The key questions for us as educators are how is this technology best used to benefit our students, and how will this new technology
http://eduserv.edu.yorku.ca/~raja_bhattacharyya/literacy.htm
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» Media Awareness Network
Offers practical support for media education in the home, school and community and "food for thought"on our fast-evolving media culture.
http://www.media-awareness.ca/
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» Structuring writing for reading: hypertext and the reading body.
This paper examines some textual devices that writers may use to pre-structure the activities of their readers. HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is used as an 'explicating device' to explore how writers can provide reading instructions, and how these can
http://www.pscw.uva.nl/emca/swfr.htm#Reading%20HTML
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» TechMission: Association of Christian Community Computer Centers (AC4)
Nondenominational organization which supports Christian community computer access and skills centers around the world, seeking to make churches and Christian organizations a driving force in computer literacy. Descriptions of programs, events, and resourc
http://www.techmission.org/
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» Technology CyberTrends
Quotes from managers, professionals, consultants, journalists, futurists, and educators regarding the digital revolution, digital dawn, information highway, and Internet.
http://www.duke.edu/~mccann/q-tech.htm
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» Technology Issues for Educators
Teams of educators participating in an online course developed a set of white papers on how new information and communication technologies affect schools. They produced educators' guides to Access Issues, Credibility and Web Evaluation, Free Speech versus
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/
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» TeenLit.com
Dedicated to publishing teen writing, as well as book reviews by teenagers. Teachers and parents of adolescents will find useful information. Teen and teacher discussions, author home pages, and more
http://www.teenlit.com
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» Tella: Virtual School in a Networking Learning Environment
The present paper describes factors that have facilitated the transformation of industrial societies to information and network societies; the possibilities of virtual school as a future-oriented school form; the tools of the new information and communica
http://www.helsinki.fi/~tella/ole1.html
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» The Gutenberg Elegies
Excerpts from the printed book _The Gutenberg Elegies_ by Sven Birkerts. Concerning the ways language and thought change together in a little dance.
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdbirk.htm
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» The Internet: A Medium or Message?
An article discussing the Internet as being more than just a medium. It has the ability to create change.
http://www.geocities.com/packet_switching_message/
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