Navigating the Intersection Of Literacy and Technology
Changes to the Reader …
Changes to the Text … (Bolter, 1990, 2001)
Online Changes to the Activity …
New Literacies involve the skills, social practices, and dispositions that foster life-long learning through online: collaborative inquiry, reading comprehension and content construction.
Online Collaborative Inquiry A Group of local or global learners who arrive at a common outcome via multiple pathways of knowledge
Online Collaborative Inquiry Wall Wisher
Online Collaborative Inquiry
Online Reading Comprehension The skills, strategies, and dispositions necessary to question, locate, evaluate, synthesize, and communicate information during problem based reading tasks that utilize multiple modes of information in networked environments.
Online Reading Comprehension
Internet Reciprocal Teaching Teacher-led demonstrations of basic Internet use skills and cooperative learning strategies Explicit modeling by teacher Largely whole class instruction
Internet Reciprocal Teaching Students presented with information problems to solve. Work in small groups to solve those problems. Exchange strategies as they do so. Debrief at the end of the lesson. Initially: locating and critically evaluating Later: Synthesis and communicating. Online Reading Comprehension
Online Content Construction Process by which students construct and redesign knowledge by actively encoding and decoding meaning on the world through the use of ever shifting multimodal tools.
Online Content Construction
Teacher Role Build Teacher/Classroom Websites Join a PLN Utilize hybrid lessons Encourage and Assess the Digital Footprint
Administrative Role Define technology as a literacy issue. Create a schoolwide system Have a filter/unfilter 20 minute rule Invest more in PD than technology Have long-term 1-1 computing strategy Encourage and Assess the Digital Footprint
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