| In one of these, a fictitious office manager asked the test taker, Can you help me find a good source of products and gifts designed for left-handers? In such a problem, fictitious colleagues might then make suggestions on where to go on the Web or what to search via e-mail. And with ever present access, why bother? Who can express themselves effectively with images, animation, sound, and video, solve real-world problems that require processing and analysis of thousands of numbers, evaluate information for accuracy, reliability, and validity; and organize information into valuable knowledge, yet students are not learning these skills in school? World Is Open Blended Learning Book Shares Teaching Experiences of Educators and Students in this Open World. Despite the need for such skills among instructors, a November 2006 report on media literacy from Cable in the Classroom revealed that most schools-some 60%-failed to place enough emphasis on media literacy. |