Digital Literacy

An A-Plus Idea for Getting Kids Connected to Broadband

Joe Waz | Posted 12.02.2009 | Technology


Joe Waz

With broadband Internet service now available to well over 90 percent of all Americans, but with an estimated 37 percent of Americans not yet using it, we have what some have called a "broadband adoption gap."

Media Literacy 101: Power to the People

Susan Moeller | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media


Susan Moeller

We call our children digital natives. But a digital generation is made, not born. Children must learn not just how to surf, link, load and click, but how to ask, judge and think to understand our world.

The Responsibilities of Citizenship: A Bundle of Literacies

Charles M. Firestone | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics


Charles M. Firestone

Literacy today is not simply learning to read. There are additional literacies -- abilities to understand and operate -- in 21st century America.