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The Changing ‘Face’ of Literacy

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhRochelle Jensen - 2008

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Overview:

o 21st century learning and teachingoThe Place of ICT?oThe ‘new’ literacyoA promising combo - ICT + Literacy


Learning Intentions :

oExamine how we as teachers can increasingly provide experiences that ‘connect’ to the world of the 21st century learner.

oOverview the place of ICT while looking at practical resources that can be integrated into a classroom literacy programme.

Presentation available from :

http://www.slideshare.net/rjensen/21st-century-literacy-87159/


Generation C

• Creators, • Contributors• Communicators• Collaborators• Coordinators• Consumers

(Derek Wenmoth)


Traditional Learning Environments

•Teacher centered instruction•Single sense stimulation•Single path progression•Single media•Isolated work•Information delivery•Passive learning•Factual, knowledge-based•Reactive response•Isolated, artificial context

Newer Learning Environments

•Student-centered learning•Multisensory stimulation•Multipath progression•Multimedia•Collaborative work•Information exchange•Active/exploratory/inquiry•Critical thinking and informed decision making•Proactive, planned action•Authentic, real world context



So…

How Savvy R U


Is ICT enough?

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“ The real magic in a quality learning experience comes not from boxes, wires and expensive digital equipment. The real magic comes from teachers who have high expectations, create relevant and challenging learning experiences, supported and scaffold pupils to success, and provide quality feedback for their pupils.” Trevor Bond

•Creating a supportive learning environment.•Encouraging reflective thought and action.•Enhancing the relevance of new learning.•Facilitating shared learning.•Making connections to prior learning and experience.•Providing sufficient opportunities to learn.•Teaching as inquiry.


“... e-learning forms part of a conscious choice of the best and most appropriate ways of promoting effective learning”.

JISC, 2004,pg10


Today's definition of literacy is more than reading and writing. In order to be functionally literate in our media-saturated world, children and young people – in fact, all of us – have to be able to read the messages that daily inform us, entertain us and sell to us. As the Internet becomes a fact of life, the critical thinking skills that help young people navigate through traditional media are even more important.

Media Awareness Network, (2006, June 21)


** Making meaning of ideas or information they receive (Listening, Reading, Viewing )

** Creating meaning for themselves or others (Speaking, Writing, Presenting )

The New Zealand Curriculum - EnglishEnglish is structured around two strands, each encompassing the oral, written, and visual forms of the language.


Consumers : Analyse and interpret meaning

Producers : Convey meaning by being creative with literacy and design


A ‘good’ literacy programme

oReading tooReading withoReading by

oWriting to

oWriting with

oWriting by


Explore resources that engage students while

encouraging them to make and create meaning.

• Digital Learning Objects• Software• Web 2.0 – blogs and wikis• Collaborative Projects


Digital Learning ObjectsWhat are they ?

An interactive digital resource used to support learning.

Digital learning objects are often developed to support the development of a specific particular skill, knowledge or concept.

Personal Picks

Digistore

Electronic Storybooks

Games

WHOMP

Read/Write/Think


Software What? Where? The software portal for NZ teachers is known as ‘Software for Learning’ and is accessible through Te Kete Ipurangi. This resource contains links to downloads, teachers picks and snapshots of how software is used in the classroom.

Personal Picks Photostory Glogster Comics ScratchVoicethread


Blogs and WikisWhat ? Where? The evolution of the web.Users are active rather than passive. Create and publish content. Shared constitution of meaning.No html knowledge required.

BlogsA blog is a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.http://2008meadowbank23.blogspot.com/http://e3eclat.blogspot.com/

Wikishttp://dictionary.k12opened.com/index.phphttp://collaborativetales.wikispaces.com/http://www.instructables.com/http://www.instructables.com/http://www.wikipedia.org/


Collaborative ProjectsWhat are they ?Projects that connect learners across the globe to work collaboratively to meet shared outcomes.

Personal PicksWriters WindowEpalsPersonalised Projects using web 2.0 toolshttp://rjensen.wordpress.com/literacy/

ICT’s can help:

Learners experiment with different ways of making meaning – via multi-media tools

Build learners' sense of themselves as active knowledge-builders, having a unique niche, role, point of difference…

Provide tools and resources needed for research

To develop the kinds of relationships/connections/collaborations needed to generate new knowledge


Our challenge is to engage students in the thoughtful creation of

media content as well as the critical

consumption of it.


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