This might be helpful as you frame your NYT Print/Digital Literacy Project — feel free to integrate it, or to quote it:
DEPAUL’S DEFINITION OF LITERACY
“We are helping students become more literate. By literacy, we do not mean merely learning to read and write academic discourse, but also learning ways of reading, writing, thinking, speaking, listening, persuading, informing, acting, and knowing within the contexts of university discourse(s) and the multiple discourses in the world beyond the university.”