"What is the information revolution? How do the new technologies impact on our lives now and what might these changes mean for the future? What might all this mean for education, for teachers and students, for teaching and learning?" "This booklet gives adult literacy practitioners a guided tour of some key issues currently being raised about new information technologies and technological literacy. What is interesting in the current debate is that researchers and social commentators are looking at very broad social and cultural consequences of the impact of computer mediated communication and, even among educationists, concerns are not confined exclusively to pedagogical and curriculum issues. It seems that what is on everyone's mind are questions of significant and permanent social change seeping into every crevasse of our everyday work and private lives. Many of the issues that are being raised today deal with abstract notions about the virtual and 'real', about time and space, about 'body-less' interactions and communities of learners, and so forth. This booklet brings together the diversity of research, current debates and issues in a concrete way that helps adult literacy professionals to get a baseline familiarity with a range of complex issues. The booklet also provides some practical technology literacy strategies that can be modified to suit specific classroom contexts and the diverse learning styles and needs of students."