2. What are we talking about?
• In the past, technology was a secondary,
marginalized element of education.
• Today, technology has become completely
intertwined with literacy in a child’s
experience outside the classroom.
• Today’s classroom must find ways to make this
paradigm shift and incorporate technology
into the classroom.
6. Definitions
Literacy
In the most basic
terms it is making
sense of your world.
The ability to read for
knowledge and write
coherently and think
critically about the
written word.
7. Definitions
Digital literacy
is the ability to locate, organize,
understand, evaluate, and analyze
information using digital technology.
Research around digital literacy is
concerned with wider aspects
associated with learning how to
effectively find, use, summarize,
evaluate, create, and communicate
information while using digital
technologies, not just being literate
at using a computer.
Digital literacy encompasses all
digital devices, such as computer
hardware, software, (particularly
those used most frequently by
businesses), the Internet, and cell
phones. A person using these skills
to interact with society may be
called a digital citizen.
8. Definitions
Visual literacy
is the ability to interpret,
negotiate, and make meaning
from information presented in
the form of an image.
Visual literacy is based on the
idea that pictures can be “read”
and that meaning can be
communicated through a
process of reading.
9. Applying visual literacy to picture books
“It is the synergistic relationship among art,
text, and design that makes the picture book
unique (Sipe, 1998a). Isolating one system of
meaning to serve as a prompt for another
privileges one system of meaning (usually
written language) over another (usually art or
design). We need to help readers see
illustrations and design elements as systems
of meaning in their own right and develop
skills and strategies for readers to use in
comprehending these aspects of picture
books (Serafini, 2011).”
“When Bad Things Happened to Good Books”
Frank Sarfini
10. Definitions
Critical literacy
Critical literacy encourages
readers to actively analyze texts
and offers strategies for what
proponents describe as
uncovering underlying
messages.
There are several different
theoretical perspectives on
critical literacy that have
produced different pedagogical
approaches to teaching and
learning. All of these approaches
share the basic premise that
literacy requires the literate
consumers of text to adopt a
critical and questioning
approach.
11. Background on Critical Literacy
According to proponents of critical literacy, the
practice is not simply a means of attaining
literacy in the sense of improving the ability to
decode words, syntax, etc.
Social justice pedagogy of
In fact, the ability to read words on paper is not Brazilian educator and
necessarily required in order to engage in a critical theorist Paulo Freire
(Marxist): assumes
discussion of "texts," which can include oppression
television, movies, web pages, music, art and other
means of expression. The important thing is being
able to have a discussion with others about the Australian: starts with text
different meanings a text might have and teaching
the potentially critically literate learner how to
think flexibly about it. Definitions
Context
Discourse
At the heart of this approach to teaching is the belief that Discursive background
while literacy enables students to make meaning from Intertextuality
texts, critical literacy will empower them to understand View of the World
how texts are trying to influence and change them as Gaps and Silences
members of society. Positioning
Agency
Deconstruction
12. A resource close at hand for more discussion of
critical literacy….
Critical literacy in a primary multiliteracies classroom: The Hurricane Group
Penny Silvers
Dominican University, USA, psilvers@dom.edu
Mary Shorey
Pritchett Elementary School, Illinois, USA
Linda Crafton
University of Wisconsin Parkside, USA
Abstract
This qualitative research presents an expanded perspective of literacy practices in which young students engage in
multiple literacies while exploring personal inquiries about Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, LA. An extended
classroom example and analysis taken from a broader research project focusing on early multiliteracies, illustrates
the ability of young students to ask critical questions, explore alternative perspectives, and engage in multimodal
responses to construct and communicate meaning as they take social action. Narrative inquiry and discourse analysis
provide insight into ways that primary children engage in authentic inquiry from a critical, social justice perspective.
They also show how traditional early childhood curriculum can focus on social issues through critical framing. This
classroom example demonstrates students’ increasing ability to use a range of multimodal tools to accomplish
mutually agreed socially relevant goals within a classroom community of practice. Critical literacy in a primary
multiliteracies classroom: The Hurricane Group
13. What is the future for literacy
in the 21st Century?
14. 50 most common text terms:
2moro – Tomorrow OMG – Oh My God
2nite – Tonight OT – Off Topic
BRB – Be Right Back POV – Point Of View
BTW – By The Way RBTL – Read Between The Lines
B4N – Bye For Now ROTFLMAO – Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
BCNU – Be Seeing You RT – Real Time
BFF – Best Friends Forever RTM – Read The Manual
CYA – Cover Your Ass SH – Sh** Happens
DBEYR – Don’t Believe Everything You Read SITD – Still In The Dark
DILLIGAS – Do I Look Like I Give A Sh** SOL - Sh** Out of Luck
FUD – Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation STBY – Sucks To Be You
FWIW – For What It’s Worth SWAK – Sealed With A Kiss
GR8 – Great TFH – Thread From Hell
ILY – I Love You THX – Thanks
IMHO – In My Humble Opinion TLC – Tender Loving Care
IRL – In Real Life TMI – Too Much Information
ISO – In Search Of TTYL – Talk To You Later
J/K – Just Kidding TYVM – Thank You Very Much
L8R – Later VBG – Very Big Grin
LMAO – Laughing My Ass Off WEG – Wicked Evil Grin
LOL – Laughing Out Loud -or- Lots Of Love WTF – What The F***
LYLAS – Love You Like A Sister WYWH – Wish You Were Here
MHOTY – My Hat’s Off To You XOXO – Hugs and Kisses
NIMBY – Not In My Back Yard (http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2007/12/top-50-most-
NP – No Problem com.html)
NUB – it stands for a new person
OIC – Oh, I See
Notes de l'éditeur
Literacy can also include the ability to understand all forms of communication, be it body language, pictures, video & sound (reading, speaking, listening and viewing). Evolving definitions of literacy often include all the symbol systems relevant to a particular community. Literacy encompasses a complex set of abilities to understand and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture for personal and community development. In a technological society, the concept of literacy is expanding to include the media and electronic text, in addition to alphabetic and number systems. These abilities vary in different social and cultural contexts according to need and demand.
It involves a working knowledge of current high-technology, and an understanding of how it can be used. Further, digital literacy involves a consciousness of the technological forces that affect culture and human behavior. Digitally literate people can communicate and work more efficiently, especially with those who possess the same knowledge and skills.
