The document discusses challenges and opportunities for developing literacy skills in modern students. It notes that today's students write by hand less and may interact with books in digital rather than physical forms. It asks how teachers can prepare students for a future that is difficult to predict by focusing on transferable skills. The document presents various digital tools and approaches that can be used to engage and motivate students in developing literacy, such as collaborative writing platforms, digital storytelling, and multimedia book reviews. It emphasizes selecting tools relevant to students and starting small.

1. Lifting Literacy
Etools and approaches to engage,
develop and extend our learners

2. What were the main stimuli during your
preschool development years?
How does this affect brain
development?

3. And what of today’s kids . . . ?

4. Aside from school work and homework, how
often do most kids of this generation write pen
to paper?
In their future, will they interact with books in
hardcopy form?
What are the chances they will ever use a
dictionary as we did?

5. Consumers Creators
Tool Learning
Focused:
focused LEARNING

6. What etools/apps are you
currently using to activate/
develop/deepen student
literacies?
Wallwisher here:
http://wallwisher.com/wall/knconference

8. 21st
Century
Wri.ng
• Will
our
kids
need
to
learn
to
write?
• Whose
future
are
we
preparing
them
for?
• What
might
their
future
look
like?
• How
do
we
prepare
them
to
adequately
and
confidently
to
live
in
a
world
when
we
have
no
idea
what
that
will
look
like?
• Skills
and
processes
are
transferable.

12. • Clearly purposeful to me
• For an audience
• That gets feedback, reaction and a
result from the reader
• Where I experience success
• Where I can take responsibility but
get the support I need to get better
• Where I can see and measure my
own progress

14. What
is
o.k?
• CollaboraIve
wriIng
• Borrowing
ideas
from
others
• EdiIng
wriIng
on
a
computer
• Spell
check
• Grammar
check,
thesaurus
• GeLng
inspiraIon,
moIvaIon
&
ideas
from
pictures
or
illustraIons
• DigiIsing
stuff
• Publishing
work

15. Many students have had years of working on their own, faced with
paper and pen, and lacking in motivation and ideas. It’s time for a
change.
• Bouncing ideas around
• Opportunity to “borrow” some ideas in order to get started
• Richer vocabulary
• Greater engagement
• Part of a great piece of writing
• Audience and interaction

16. https://
etherpad.mozilla.org/

17. Etherpad and
Recipes for writing
hQp://christchurchcitylibraries.com/kids/childrensauthors/
phyllisjohnston.asp

18. To
tantalise
our
tastebuds
to
write…

19. Etherpads:
6-­‐8
per
pad.
hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn1
hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn2
hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn3
hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn4
hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn5
hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn6
hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn7
hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn8
hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn9
hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn10

20. Recipe for writing:
1. Decide from what perspective you will be writing.
2. Set the scene as though a silent camera was
sweeping across the landscape.
3. Introduce
sound
into
the
scene
4. Introduce
character
to
the
scene
5. Introduce
tension
6. Add
climax/drama
that
needs
resoluIon
7. Add
resoluIon
and
closure
to
the
story

21. For juniors: e.g. I sor a betel.
Think of an animal
It is going
• What is your animal? under a lef. It
• What is it doing?
had a big stip
on it bak. It is
• What does it look eeting the lef.
like?
I don’t like
• What does it eat? betels. They
• How did you feel
stink.
about it?
Note the variation in tense – something to
model work on for editing.

22. Five
Card
Stories

23. Story-­‐starter
ideas
h@p://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/contents_wri.nginspira.on.htm

24. Twi@er
• CollaboraIve
Note
taking
around
text/
learning
• Flipping
the
classroom
and
asking
students
to
tweet
in
from
home.

25. Crea.ng
Digital
Stories
Let’s
take
a
look
at
a
few
that
have
been
created
by
other
students….
The
NaI
Awards
and
another
example
My
loose
tooth
The
Bully

26. Let’s
hear
from
a
school
that
used
an
online
tool
called
StoryBird
to
create
their
own
digital
stories…

27. Publishing
your
Digital
Stories

28. E-­‐Pals

29. Quad
Blogging

30. Wri.ng
Book
Reviews

31. Wri.ng
your
own
School/Class
Newspaper

32. Apps
&
Online
tools
for
WriIng
• E-­‐books
for
reading
and
wriIng
• My
Story
• LiQle
Story
Maker
• Apple
iBooks
Author
• Skitch
• Inkflow
• Popplet
• Storybird
• LiQle
Bird
Tales

33. 21st
Century
Reading
• Is
it
not
that
students
aren’t
reading;
is
it
more
that
they
are
reading
differently…
and
we
just
haven’t
noIced?
• To
what
extent
are
we
teaching
transferable
skills
and
processes
vs
knowledge?

34. Think
of
a
reluctant
reader;
what
happens
when
we
put
a
digital/mobile
device
in
their
hand?
– Searching
– SelecIng
– Synthesising
– Inferring
– Discussing/chaLng
– UIlising
mulI-­‐literacies

35. ebooks and book reviews

36. Book reviews
«

37. Linking with QR - Codes
Placing QR codes onto Library books
Great also for Wide Reading - Secondary

38. iPad Apps

39. Voicethread
http://voicethread.com/?#q.b2039358.i10800964
Examples
of
its
use
in
Junior
and
senior
classes
And
others

41. hQp://englishonline.tki.org.nz/English-­‐Online/Community-­‐discussions/ICTs-­‐in-­‐English

42. hQp://elearningbop.wikispaces.com/Literacy+Progressions

43. Key
messages:
*
Modify/scaffold
the
use
of
these
tools
*
Make
it
relevant
to
your
students
and
their
environment.
*
Choose
one
relevant
thing
to
begin
with
and
give
it
a
go!