1. Increasing Literacy Through
Web 2.0
Anne Brusca
Library Media Specialist, Herricks UFSD
Karen Kliegman
Library Media Specialist, Herricks UFSD~Adjunct Prof. Long Island
University ~ Educational Technology & Library Information Science~Google
Certified Teacher~ http://wlteam.blogspot.com/ Wired Librarian
2. The World is Changing…
quot;It is not the strongest species that survive, nor
the most intelligent, but the ones most
responsive to change.quot; ~ Charles Darwin
3. Do You Speak Your Students’
Language?
Email?
QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Internet?
Browse?
Call?
Camera?
4. Why do we have to talk about
doing things differently??
“This is a story about the
big public conversation the
nation is not having about
education… whether an
entire generation of kids
will fail to make the grade
in the global economy
because they can’t think
their way through
abstract problems, work
in teams, distinguish good
information from bad, or
bad
speak a language other
than English.”
21st Century??
6. Why do we have to talk about
doing things differently??
Global Competition
Global
Interdependence
Information is
Ubiquitous
Workplace
Innovation
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/index.php
Source: Karen Cator, Director, Apple Leadership &
Advocacy Efforts in Education
7. What is the Flat World?
“…a global, web-enabled
playing field that allows
for multiple forms of
collaboration on research
and work in real time,
without regard to
geography, distance, or, in
the near future, even
language.”
8. Who Are 21st C Learners?
As large in number as Baby
Boomers
Consumers- $150 billion annually
Digital Media Users – 6 hrs daily
(Exposed to 8 hours)
Multi-taskers: online - phone -
print
Hyper-Communicators -socially &
civically
Gamers-interactive learning
Risk-Takers
~Brad Fountain, Discovery Education
10. The Future of Reading???
.…Books are not Nadia Konyk’s
thing.…Instead, like so many other
teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to
the Internet. She regularly spends
at least six hours a day in front of
the computer
….Nadia checks her e-mail and peruses
myyearbook.com, a social networking
site, reading messages or posting
updates on her mood. She searches
for music videos on YouTube
.…But she spends most of her time on
quizilla.com or fanfiction.net, reading
and commenting on stories written by
other users and based on books,
television shows or movies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?_r=2&emc=eta1&o
ref=slogin
11. Where’s the Beef???
quot;Do we think that learning in new ways
with digital technologies is worth the
effort to actually change how we
work with children and youth in our
schools?”
~ Pat Clifford, quot;Where's the Beef:
Finding Literacy in Computer Literacyquot;,
August 2004
12. So, what does literacy mean?
Literacy today depends on
understanding the multiple media
that make up our high-tech reality
and developing the skills to use
them effectively.
In our 21st century society—
accelerated, media-saturated, and
automated—a new literacy is
required, one more broadly
defined than the ability to read
and write.
By Barbara R. Jones-Kavalier and Suzanne L. Flannigan
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly
/ConnectingtheDigitalDotsL/39969
Photo by Mike Sasone
13. So, what does literacy mean?
DIGITAL NATIVE VS. DIGITAL IMMIGRANT: Often, a classroom filled
with digitally literate students is being led by linear-thinking,
technologically stymied instructors.
Digital and visual literacies are the next wave of communication
specialization. We have technologies at our fingertips not only to
communicate but to create, to manipulate, to design, to self-actualize.
Children learn these skills as part of their lives, like language, which they
learn without realizing they are learning it. (Prensky)
Few educational organizations have developed comprehensive technology
plans that specify technical learning objectives or ensure successful
integration of technology to enhance students’ digital and visual literacy.
14. Being Literate Today Means
Finding the information
Processing different media
Decoding the information
Analyzing the information
Critically evaluating the information
Organizing it into personal digital libraries
Creating information in a variety of media
Teaching the information to find the user
Filtering the information gleaned
16. We Live in a Remix Culture
In a remix culture, digital objects are meant
rearranged,
to be changed,
rethought, juxtaposed,
discussed and shaped…
shaped
not
just consumed.
17. Living in a Remix Culture
Currently, teachers' are concerned about
the ease with which students can plagiarize
Instead of trying to outfox this cheating,
we need to be giving entirely different
kinds of assignments...ones that absolutely
demand that students design and create
far more complex and intriguing
performances of their understanding.quot;
~ Pat Clifford, quot;Where's the Beef: Finding Literacy in Computer Literacyquot;, August 2004
18. Reading Across
a Dozen Literacies
We need a broadened conception of reading to capture
the many different types of reading that occur when
considering information in different formats across
different media. Students must now be able to quot;read a
facequot; as well as a page, must be able to read a
photograph or a chart or a situation. Reading as
understanding applies to many aspects of life.
~Jamie McKenzie, FromNowOn
http://www.fno.org/mar09/dozen.html
19. Reading Across
a Dozen Literacies
What is a literacy?
– the capacity to analyze, interpret and
understand information within a particular
category of information or within a particular
medium.
~Jamie McKenzie, FromNowOn
http://www.fno.org/mar09/dozen.html
21. Natural Literacy
Despite the pleasure in
reading nature few children
today seem interested in the
habits and movements of the
natural world. In a childhood
full of iPods, cell phones, video
games, and organized play-
dates, children frequently
form relationships only to the
cartoon versions of the
natural world.
http://www.seanursery.com/water/60
22. Media Literacy
Media literacy involves the
capacity and the inclination to
cut past the distortions and
manipulation often typical of
today's news, communications
and entertainment media in
order to build an understanding
of the world that is at least
partially grounded in reality.
http://www.fno.org/mar09/dozen.htm
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23. Ethical Literacy
Many schools have embraced
problem-based learning as a
way to involve students in
wrestling with real world
challenges - an excellent way
to introduce them to the
moral and ethical aspects of
modern life.
A similar approach is called
Authentic Learning -
developed by Fred M.
Newmann and Gary G.
Wehlage. quot;Five Standards of
Authentic Instruction.quot;
24. Moving Towards:
What should be done?
Students are involved
researching important
issues, problems and
decisions with the goal
of coming up with
action plans or
specific work products
and documents that
mirror the real work
done in agencies.
25. The Read/Write Web
This is a challenging time in education.
Content is everywhere; scrutinizing content
and engaging with the world are skills
needed even by young students.
~Will Richardson
26. We have to ask ourselves…
How are we
How are we modeling
Who are our
building our learning
teachers?
our own for our students?
learning networks?
Why the Read-Write Web is Changing Everything
~ Will Richardson
27. You
Are a 21st Century
Teacher?
Plug-ins
required:
28. Plug-ins…
Lifelong Learning
ASSEMBLING INSTRUCTIONS
Creativity
Multitasking
Collaboration
Communication
29. LITERACY Standards for the
21st-Century Learner: YOU!!
Facilitate and Inspire quot;Teachers must become
comfortable as co-learners with
Student Learning and
their students and with
Creativity
colleagues around the world.
Design and Develop Digital- Today it is less about staying
Age Learning Experiences ahead and more about moving
and Assessment ahead as members of dynamic
learning communities. The
Model Digital-Age Work
digital-age teaching professional
and Learning
must demonstrate a vision of
Promote and Model Digital technology infusion and develop
Citizenship and the technology skills of others.
Responsibility These are the hallmarks of the
new education leader.”
Engage in Professional
Growth and Leadership
—Don Knezek, ISTE CEO, 2008
NETS FOR
TEACHERS
40. Collaborate, Create, Share
Wikis
Blogs
Podcasts
Screencasts
Vodcasts
Google Docs
Google Maps, Earth
Nings
RSS
41. Let’s Separate the Wheat
from the Chaff
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Commerce/agri-wheat-winnowing.html
42. 12 Questions to Ask Yourself on New
Technologies:
~ Dr. Howie DiBlasi
1. Is it focused on student learning?
2. Are there observable results?
3. Does it meet the standards?
4. Can it show results?
5. Does it increase research skills?
6. Does it improve communication skills?
7. Are students accountable?
8. Does it improve student collaboration?
9. Does it help students communicate globally?
10. Does it help students deal with massive amounts of information?
11. Does it teach our students to be self-directed and understand how to
organize more of their own learning?
12. Is it sustainable?
47. Podcasting: Ask Yourself…
Does it improve communication skills?
Are students accountable?
Does it improve student collaboration?
New Bloom’s Taxonomy
H.O.T.S.
48. Podcasts: not just words on a
page for a teacher to read…
Provide students with the opportunity to
showcase their talents in everything from
writing and speaking to digital storytelling.
Motivate students to be creative and
utilize technology in new ways.
Provide immediate feedback of the work,
and allows others to see “inside the
classroom” for a brief moment.
50. Class Blogmeister
Does it improve
communication skills?
Are students
accountable?
Does it improve
student collaboration?
Does it help students
communicate globally?
Does it help students
deal with massive
amounts of
information?
Does it teach our
students to be self-
directed and
understand how to
organize more of their
own learning?
sustainable?
Is it
51.
52. Wikis
Wiki - wiki (in Hawaiian) means “rapidly” or
really fast.
Provide a collaborative environment to
exchange ideas, information, and resources
between individuals regardless of distance
or time.
Provide users to correct content or add
content for more meaning.
62. The World is Changing…
“The illiterate of the 21st century
will not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn, and relearn.”
~ Alvin Toffler
