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Networked Literacy Project Learning Gauge founded the Networked Literacy Project in 2007 to empower learners with 21st Century literacy skills needed to live, work and learn in networked cultures. The project defines a networked culture as a geographical community connected through Internet access to others in the global village. The goals of the Networked Literacy Project are to: Foster students' ownership of literacy and self-regulated learning abilities in developmentally appropriate ways that will empower them to thrive in the fast-pace, technological cultures of the 21st Century. Prepare teachers with deep pedagogical knowledge in how to help students meet the literacy demands of the 21st Century and to more adequately support students with meaningful opportunities to learn in networked cultures. Provide school administrators with an understanding of how information and communications technologies are changing the nature of reading and writing to inform their decisions about how students can meet 21st Century learning outcomes aligned with society’s needs for literate, life-long learners. This project is based on a book titled Literacy Learning in Networked Classrooms, published in 2006 from the International Reading Association and other related research. Dr. Mary McNabb, director of Learning Gauge Inc., is the primary author of the aforementioned book.