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Week 1 - Wordle

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Spring Semester 2017 - EDIT 782/783 - Week 1 My Wordle This week's requirement was to read several texts about literacy and to distill keywords into a " Wordle " word cloud. My Wordle looks like this: The most prominently featured words in this word cloud are "digital", "literacy", "reading" and "writing". When I compiled my notes and keywords into this cloud, I was pleased to see that "digital" and "literacy" came up most prominently. I think these tow words lie at the core of what 21st Century students need. Modern literacy includes the ability to read and write, as in past generations, but differs in that it includes many more new forms of fluency. Teachers often complain that their students do not read. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Students today are reading an enormous amount, but in ways that differ from their parents and grandparents. Students may learn from what they read in their a