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=IDC 4U Unit 5= **New Literacies: Issues and Applications** Key Concepts
 * Digital Literacies & Citizenship
 * Working with Information
 * Communications
 * 21st Century Skills

Additional Ideas

Teaching Strategies - explore what we mean by digital literacy - define terms, essential skills

- supply students with **leet speak text** and ask them to create a bilingual "dictionary" of Leet-English and visa versa - alternate strategy to give a speech or quotation from a famous interdisciplinarian and ask students to translate it into Leet-speak

- **plagiarism prevention** - i.e. the difference between copy and paste info extraction and paraphrasing, summarizing and different styles of note-taking including use of graphic organizer software such as SMART ideas to note-take and to summarize and synthesize ideas and information

- use [|Research Succes@Your Library] to **evaluate websites** - use Wikipedia to examine citation styles and referencing to support arguments, the need for a clear understanding or where information comes from and the difference between fact from "reliable sources" vs. opinion without substantiation by reliable sources - use both Wikipedia and __[|Research Succes@Your Library]__ to clarify what is meant by reliable sources (this topic will naturally lend itself to unit 6: New Resources: Effective collaboration iwth Online Databases etc.)

- **analyzing nontext based information:** i.e. infographics - "reading" pictures or graphical text for information - design issues and challenges of clarity in photos, graphs, charts, webpages, pamphlets etc. example -[]?_ - use Media Awareness Network resources for stuff on bias in images, film