Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action, " Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century" explores the complex linkage between technology and literacy that has come to characterize American culture and its public educational system at the end of the twentieth century.

To provide a specific case study of this complex cultural formation, award-winning educator Cynthia L. Selfe discusses the Technology Literacy Challenge, an official, federally sponsored literacy project begun in 1996 that has changedat fundamentally important levelsthe definition of...