1. 21 ST CENTURY LITERACY
MARK G. CACCIATORE
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

2. ?
Imagine, like Rip
did, that you fell
asleep for 20
years. You wake
up and walk into
a classroom.
What does
teaching &
learning look
like?
“Rip's story was soon told, for the whole twenty years had been to him but as one night.
The neighbors stared when they heard it; some were seen to wink at each other, and put
their tongues in their cheeks.”
RIP VAN WINKLE

3. THINK-PAIR-SHARE
21st Century
Literacy
What literacy
skills (reading & Grouping by
Ability
writing) do
students need in
our Elementary
classrooms?
Integration of Text Books
Tech Gone . . .
Problem-Based
Learning

4. 21ST CENTURY LITERACIES
NCTE
21ST CENTURY
LITERACY:
WHAT IS IT?
P 21
IRA

5. 21ST CENTURY LITERACIES
NCTE Categories Ideas for Other What I’ve Done . . .
Classrooms
Develop proficiency with Basic Keyboard
the tools of technology commands: Control “F”
Build relationships
Design and share
information for global Book Trailers
communities
Manage, analyze and
synthesize multiple Lake of the Woods:
streams of simultaneous Multimedia PowerPoints
information
Create, critique, analyze,
and evaluate multi-media Dr. Faustus
texts
Attend to the ethical Sexting
responsibilities required
by these complex NJEA & Governor
environments Christie

6. 21ST CENTURY LITERACY:
SOME CLOSURE
Smagorinsky (2001)
No educational methodology, innovation, or movement
is a panacea.
Lund’s (2006) “Warnings” for Educators
BUILDING: Educators must know how to respect, build
upon, and incorporate students’ Internet-based cultural
identities into higher socio-cognitive functioning.
Prensky: Kids are Wired Differently Today!

7. 21st Century
Literacy
Wake-up, Rip!

8. References
Lund, A. (2006). The multiple contexts of online language teaching. Language Teaching Research,
10, 181–204.
National Council of Teachers of English (2008) The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies.
Urbana, IL. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from
http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/21stcentdefinition
Prensky, Marc (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon, 9(5), 1-6.
Smagorinsky, P. (2001). If meaning is constructed, what is it made from? Toward a cultural theory of
reading. Review of Educational Research, 71, 133–169.