1. What is literacy?

2. Session3: 21 st Century Literacy

3.  Centering exercise  Announcements / reminders  Recap: Technology and the self, technology and society  Laws of media  21 st century literacy and NETS-S  Break  Hands-on: Technology tools, more webquests

4. Every medium:  Extends (Enhances)  Overloads (Reverses)  Retrieves  Obsolesces  McLuhan's Laws of Media McLuhan's Laws of Media

5. 1. Your group will be assigned an educational technology. 2. On the white board, make a square and divide it into four quadrants. 3. For your technology, fill in each quadrant using McLuhan’s “4 Laws” model. EnhancesReverses RetrievesObsolesces

6. What Does It Mean To Be Literate in the 21st Century?

7. Paolo Freire and literacy:  Literacy as not just “reading the word”, but “reading the world”  And not just “reading the world”, but “writing the world”  Literacy as a generic term for constructing (or maybe discovering) meaning

8. 1. Creativity and innovation 2. Communication and collaboration 3. Research and information fluency 4. Critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making 5. Digital citizenship 6. Technology operations and concepts

9.  How are the 2007 NETS-S standards similar to the description of technology literacy in Tech Tonic similar?  How are they different?  Which do you prefer?

10. Ten minutes please…

11. Tech Tac Toe Assignment Mailmerge Google forms Presentation programs

12. Explore webquests With the other people at your table, check out some webquests to get a feel for what they look like. Find one that you would like to share with the class.