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ERIC Number: EJ594871
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
Literacy in the Information Age.
Rafferty, Cathleen D.
Educational Leadership, v57 n2 p22-25 Oct 1999
Considers three broad, interconnected types of literacy: alphabetic (text-based), representational, and tool. Teachers can help support literacy for learning regardless of the medium--print, visual, video, audio, or electronic. School leaders can define and develop a literacy-for-learning mission by taking five strategic steps. Contains 13 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Mission, Learning Processes, Superintendents, Teacher Role, Technological Literacy
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Information Age