Literacy becomes more diverse.

Literacy is a broad topic, that has become even more so with our exponential development of technology. Within these areas of literacy that have bloomed in the 21st century, there are three primary topics: computer literacy, information literacy, and integration literacy.

Computer literacy deals with a person's ability to use a computer to communicate with others, find information, and utilize the tools available on the computer. This ranges from basic keyboarding to designing a webpage with various widgets.

Information literacy relates to how well a person can collect, filter, evaluate, organize and represent all the data available to them. As was mentioned in the last blog, the ability to evaluate data is a skill that is much more widely necessary than it was two decades ago.

Integration literacy is what we will need to strive for in our classrooms. We will need to try to prepare our students for a world where information literacy and computer literacy will be an integral component of their workplace. In order to prepare them, we need to make these two literacies an integral part of their classroom learning.