Literacy In the Digital Age Reading, Writing, Viewing, and Computing

Examines the transition from a book and library world and its influence upon schools to a digital world of electronic text, television, and the Internet. It redefines literacy in that new world and addresses the questions: What does a digital world mean for schools? Can we provide a model of education that allows the learner access to learning at anytime and anyplace? Includes: a glimpse of how students might learn in a digital world. a discussion of national and international digital libraries of high quality curriculum. a model federal law that could provide for the development of a digital resource for schools across the nation and eventually for the world.

Frank B. Withrow is president of A Better Learning Experience (ABLE) Company. He has been an early childhood teacher, speech pathologist, audiologist, director of research, and federal program officer. He was the senior learning technologist at the U.S. Department of Education for thirty years