The Merging of Literacy and Technology in the 21st Century: A Bonus for Gifted Education

For most of the past century, literacy has been associated with being able to read the printed word. The meaning of literacy, however, is changing (Lankshear & Knobel, 2003). Not only are reading experts expanding their notion of literacy to include technology use (Leu, 2003), but it is included in literacy in other disciplines, as well (Burkhardt et al., 2003), and technology skills often cross disciplines.