Threshold Magazine
Winter 2006
The Winter 2006 issue of
Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education features articles focused on New Literacies for a Changing World, produced in partnership with
The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.
 | The Search for Truth
Chris Sperry explores how the core concepts of media literacy help teach academic content and essential skills for a healthy democracy. |
| Shared Vision: A Threshold Forum
Milton Chen, Don Knezek, Faith Rogow, and Dawn Vaughn seek common ground among media literacy, information literacy, and ICT literacy—and map out a road for education to reach it. |
| Where's Media Literacy?
Frank W. Baker presents a sampling of media-literacy standards found in today's classrooms. |
| Policy & Practice: Making Change Happen
Sue Lockwood Summers suggests seven steps to make media-literacy education universal in K–12 schools. |
| Hip-Hop, Pop Culture, and the Classroom
Should schools embrace pop culture for educational goals? Kenneth Smith gives an age-old debate a new twist. |
| Framing the Future of Literacy
Alan November, Kathleen Tyner, and Henry Jenkins explore the new, active literacies students will need in a global, participatory culture. |
| | Departments |
| Contributors
The people behind the words and ideas in this issue. |
| Explorations
New Literacies for a Changing World: Helen Soulé and Hiller A. Spires advocate expanding the vision of literacy to embrace new technologies. |
| About Threshold
Who we are, what we do, and why. |
| Eye on Research
Media Literacy & Core Curriculum: Nellie Gregorian reveals initial results from the evaluation of a new media-literacy program funded by the U.S. Department of Education. |
| New Voices
Joe Millionaire Meets Ulysses: Donna Alvermann looks at how preservice teachers resist—and adapt—when exposed to media-literacy training. |
