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- Title
Multiple Literacies Gone Wild.
- Authors
Jewett, Pamela
- Abstract
The article examines the benefits of the outdoor activity of geocaching for increasing print and digital literacy among children. The author discusses her experience of geocaching, which involves the use of global positioning system (GPS) devices to determine the coordinates and the location of a cache placed by someone else. She discusses the comfort of children in the digitally at home generation with digital technologies, the growing acceptance of digital literacy as one of multiple literacies, and the creation of learning experiences outside of school.
- Subjects
GEOCACHING (Game); COMPUTER literacy; DIGITAL technology; GLOBAL Positioning System; COORDINATES; TECHNOLOGY &; children
- Publication
Reading Teacher, 2011, Vol 64, Issue 5, p341
- ISSN
0034-0561
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1598/RT.64.5.4