When asked, "What do you teach?" answer, "I teach students."  Use literacy to connect with young people and to help them find a way to become involved in the world.

Literacy for the iGeneration

A collaborative and interactive site for the literacy courses taught by Dr. Gloria E. Jacobs at St. John Fisher College, Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. School of Education Created and maintained by Dr. Gloria E. Jacobs. 

Welcome. As a teacher you are going to be working with students who use language, literacies, and technologies in ever changing ways that may be different from those you associate with being literate. A goal of my teaching is to contribute to preservice and novice teacher understandings of what literacy is and what the implications of the new literacies are for learning.

Let us begin with these assumptions:

Literacy and the economy are inextricably intertwined.

Our lives  are fundamentally affected by the social and economic realities of a globalized, information economy.

Literacy is a gateway technology in our society; it can be used to let people in or keep people out.

Literacy isn't a panacea, but helping people learn how to "crack the code" and "read the world" can help them transform their worlds. 

  What is the                    What is                                        What is                                      What are                           Why Include        

 iGeneration?          Adolescent Literacy?          Literacy in the Content Areas?     the New Literacies?     the New Literacies in Education?

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