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donald j. leu, university of connecticut; charles k. kinzer, teachers college, columbia university; julie coiro, university of rhode island; jill castek, portland state university; and laurie a. henry, university of kentucky LITERACY AS DEIXIS 1. Global economic competition within economies based increasingly on the effective use of information and communication. 2. The rapid appearance of the Internet in both our professional and personal lives. 3. Public policy initiatives by nations that integrate literacy and the Internet into instruction.

to predict every line, on every page, that follows. Our contribution is not to make specific predictions about each line in that story. These inevitably will be proven wrong as change overwhelms our ability to anticipate it. Instead, we hope to develop a broad outline of the continuing story of literacy instruction that will take place in classrooms around the world. We hope our description will direct all members of the literacy community to focus their attention on networked information and communication technologies such as the Internet. We