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'The Shift to 21st-Century Literacies'

December 2007

 

Sara Kajder

Sara Kajder

"Here is the deal: technology is not going to slow down," says Sara Kajder, author of Bringing the Outside In and The Tech-Savvy English Classroom in the November issue of The Council Chronicle published by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

"Because technology is always changing, and because the tools are always changing, it's a hugely challenging time to be a teacher," Sara says. She believes that in order for teachers to be able to teach these 21st century technologies, they need to start using them as well. "This means...that teachers might want to start their own MySpace pages and keep blogs, as just two examples."

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Copyright 2007 by the National Council of Teachers of English. Used with permission.

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