WHY DO WE NEED NEW LITERACY’S?

Understanding New Literacy’s will enable our educator’s to help students become more familiar with advancing technologies which can be highly beneficial for them even after they are done with their schooling.

http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/literacy/riesland.htm

"one could say that its fundamental purpose is to ensure that all students benefit from learning in ways that allow them to participate fully in public, community, and economic life." (1996)..Erin Riesland

NEW LITERACY'S IN A CHANGING WORLD

What is a new literacy?

http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=263

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New Literacy’s are essential to know and understand especially today because of how technologically oriented the world is becoming.

http://www2.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/a/administrator_marapr05_pdfs_put_new_lit_to_work.pdf

Smartboard

Interactive Whiteboard

Can be used with any subject

Allows instructors to put present information that is interactive and students can use

http://smarttech.com/

Inspiration

Create visual diagrams for language arts, science, math, social studies

Supports Visual learners

Teachers can create for classroom students

Students can use for studying, projects, organization

http://www.inspiration.com/

Costs of Literacies The typical budget for Education systems has

dramatically decreased, making new Literacies too costly now more than ever: Higher Education

Costs of Some New and Old Literacies

Standard Classroom Whiteboard ≈ $440 Standard Classroom Chalkboard ≈ $350 Classroom Projector ≈ $750 - $5,000 Smartboard ≈ $2,500 Interactive Monitors ≈ $1,000 - $2,000 Projection Screen ≈ $4,000 - $6,000 Audience Response System≈ $800 - $1600

Individual Click Pads ≈ $45.00

Standard Costs of Literacies

Visual Literacy and the Classroom

“More and more students are turning to PowerPoint or equivalent programs for classroom presentations. These students are pushing their classmates to compete and setting classroom precedents. The speed at which technology is altering classroom communication is overwhelming. The time to address visual media literacy is now”(Riesland).

Emily Riesland