Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 Content Area Reading Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum Richard T. Vacca, Jo Anne L. Vacca, Maryann Mraz

Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 Chapter 2 Learning with New Literacies

Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 Organizing Principle New literacies are transforming the way we read, write, think, communicate, and make meaning.

Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 Frame of Mind What are new literacies? What is different about learning with new literacies? What is the same? Why is learning with new literacies essential for students? What are some instructional strategies that can be used to engage and empower learning through the use of new literacies? How do roles of teachers change when they make new literacies an integral part of subject matter learning?

Key Terms Blogs Hypermedia Hypertext Information and communication technologies (ICT) Internet inquiries Media literacy Netiquette New literacies Nings Threaded discussion Websites WebQuests Wikis Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4

Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 New Literacy Classrooms - the rationale for using electronic texts in content area classrooms. Focus on inquiry and student choice Employ a student-centered curriculum Teach thinking and learning in multimodal environments Teach students how to evaluate websites Use blogs, wikis, and Nings Use the Internet Link in-school and out-of-school literacies Recognize non-linear characteristics of new literacies Connect with the content standards

brainstorm ways you have observed teachers using new literacies. classify their observations as effective or ineffective. Discuss the factors that contribute to the use of new literacies being effective or ineffective. Are the experiences that they recall positive or negative? How could negative experiences have been altered to provide a positive learning experience? Book title, #e Author Name © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 6

The authors suggest that, “New literacies have impacted the way we think about teaching and learning.” Discuss this statement and its implications for education. Book title, #e Author Name © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 7

Ask students to select three sites pertaining to their content area of interest and evaluate each site’s usefulness for enhancing the content area curriculum. brainstorm ways in which the effectiveness of these electronic resources could be enhanced. Book title, #e Author Name © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 8

Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 9 Multimodal Elements Print Graphic design Audio Video Gesture Continuous interaction top_640x360_ccv2/ab/streaming/myeducationlab/PG205/Wee k1_Segment4_iPad.mp4 top_640x360_ccv2/ab/streaming/myeducationlab/PG205/Wee k1_Segment4_iPad.mp4

Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 10 Standards Revolve around several broad areas of strategic knowledge and skills Creativity and innovation Communication and collaboration Research and information fluency Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making Digital citizenship Technology operations and concepts

Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 11 What You May Find in a New Literacy Classroom Daily work in multiple forms of representation Explicit discussions of the merits of using certain symbol systems in certain situations with much choice Meta-dialogues Modeling by teachers working through problems using certain symbol systems A mix of individual and collaborative activities Student engagement top_640x360_ccv2/ab/streaming/myeducationlab/contentare areading/Engagement_iPad.mp4 top_640x360_ccv2/ab/streaming/myeducationlab/contentare areading/Engagement_iPad.mp4

Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 12 Framework for Evaluating Online Resources Examine possible bias. Determine reliability. Determine accuracy. Synthesize information in a meaningful way.

Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 Communication Tools for Engaging Writing to Learn Strategies for Writing to Learn Explore types of and the potential of new reading and writing forms. Threaded discussions Blogs Wikis Nings

Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 14 Netiquette Respect the privacy of classmates and what they share. Ask for clarification if a posting is difficult to understand. Recognize that exposure to another group member’s response and comments are part of the learning experience, even though you may personally disagree with the comments. Before posting a comment, ask whether you would make the same comment in a face-to-face discussion. Keep in mind that something that would be inappropriate in a face-to-face classroom discussion is also inappropriate in an online discussion. Adapted from Online Student Expectations (p. 46)

Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 15 Strategies for Multimodal Learning Identify strategies to show students how to think and learn in multimodal environments. Internet workshops Internet inquiries Internet projects Webquests

Content Area Reading, 11e Vacca, Vacca, Mraz © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 16 Internet Project Planning Plan a project for an upcoming unit and write a project description. Post the project description and timeline several months in advance, seeking classroom partnerships with other teachers. Post the project at a location on the Internet where teachers advertise their projects. Arrange collaboration details with teachers in other classrooms who agree to participate. Complete the project using Internet workshop sessions for project-related activities and information exchanges.

Show Learners How to Evaluate Websites plans/inquiry-internet-evaluating-pages-328.html Book title, #e Author Name © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 17

Helping students identify “good” information Model How to Think and Learn in Multimodal Environments n_12/lesson_plans_ideas_technology.htm Book title, #e Author Name © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 18