Balanced Literacy

Balanced Literacy is the focus of our staff development this afternoon. To me, balanced literacy in my computer literacy allows students to utilize their literacy skills in a variety way through multiple media. I think it's important for my students to work in online environments as well as in more traditional environments, like word processing and localized documents.

Cross-curricular literacy characteristics, I believe, begin and end with critical thinking. Students need to be challenged to evaluate, synthesize, and analyze situations surrounding technology use. That means they need to read, write, and publish in computer literacy.