EDUC 7716 - Global Literacy in the Twenty-First Century

Prerequisite: admission to the Sixth Year Certificate in Instructional Technologies & Digital Media Literacy. This course allows students to explore literacy practices in their classrooms and districts from a world perspective. Nealy a quarter of 16 to 65-year-olds in the world's richest countries are functionally illiterate; students will explore American schools' roles in perpetuating this figure, investigating adult illiteracy as well as youth illiteracy. Students will also examine how literacy practices differ throughout the world and whether a monolithic definition of what it means to be literate may be expanding through technological connections.
3 credit hours.