Miss Rumphius Revisited: Where Have New Literacies Gone in an Age of No Child Left Behind

Donald J. Leu, John and Maria Neag Endowed Chair in Literacy and Technology

The Miss Rumphius Awards of IRA recognize exceptional online resources that teachers have created to support literacy and learning in school classrooms. What lessons can we learn from these teachers? How has NCLB impacted the integration of the new literacies of online reading into the classroom?   What changes have yet to take place?  This portion of the joint talk will address these issues.

Donald.Leu@Uconn.edu  ~ Neag Homepage

Donald J. Leu is the John and Maria Neag Endowed Chair in Literacy and Technology and holds a joint appointment in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. He is also Co-Director of the New Literacies Research Lab at the University of Connecticut, a former President of the National Reading Conference and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association. A graduate of Michigan State, Harvard, and Berkeley, Don’s work focuses on the new skills and strategies required to read, write, and learn with Internet technologies and the best instructional practices that prepare students for these new literacies. Don has more than 100 research publications and sixteen books and he has given keynote addresses in Europe, Australia, Asia, South America, and North America. He is currently a Principal Investigator on a number of federal research grants (CTELL, The New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension, and NAEP Secondary Reanalysis) and is editing the Handbook of Research on New Literacies (Erlbaum) with Julie Coiro, Michele Knobel, and Colin Lankshear.

Visit these Online Links to Professional Development Sessions and Recent Publications for K-12 Educators

 Dr. Donald J. Leu discusses New Literacies http://ctell.uconn.edu/canter/canter_video.cfm?movie=1a_new_technologies.mov

View video clips of Dr. Leu discussing New Litercies.

Teaching with the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times

View the companion website to our book Teaching with the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times.

Karchmer, R.A., Mallette, M., Julia Kara-Soteriou, Donald J. Leu, (Eds.) Innovative Approaches to Literacy Education:  Using the Internet to Support New Literacies. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

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