5. Education beyond the Information Age Patti Mason Pelayo EDU 585 Fontbonne University Summer 2009

6. What are the implications for change in our education system? What current practices can we adapt to prepare our students for the 21 st Century?

8. Research Question How does Abydos philosophy and methodology serve to prepare students for the simultaneous literacies of the global or conceptual age as called for by the expertise of researchers and educators?

9. Reading Literature Review NCTE (2009)  Critical Literacy  Media Literacy  Multimodalities Daniel Pink (2006) A Whole New Mind  Symphony  Empathy  Meaning

10. Writing Literature Review Involves the fullest possible functioning of the brain. (Emig, 1977) In-school vs. out-of-school literacies (NCTE, 2009) Story – Compelling, emotionally engaging (Pink, 2006)

11. Thinking Literature Review Knowledge workers vs. imagination & integration (Pink, 2006) Computers vs. Human Contact & Empathy Rote Learning vs. Metacognitive Learning (Marzano, 2007)

12. Collaboration Literature Review Mini-experts (Carroll and Wilson, 2008) Design & Symphony (Pink, 2006) Social nature of literacy (NCTE, 2009) Scaffolding (Vygotsky, 1986)

13. Study Design

14. Meta-Analysis Chart ReadingWritingThinkingCollaborating Literacies Critical/Media Multi- modalities Symphony /Synthesis Design/ Creativity The Big Picture

15. Our idea of literacy must be revisited. Results Discussion Abydos Philosophy Literacy = Learning + Success Textbook Literature vs. Simultaneous Literacies Reading, comprehension, synthesis and evaluation Abydos Methodology Multimodal Reading Reader-Response  Dialectical Notebooks  Text-to-self  Text-to-text  Text-to-world

16. Writing is not regurgitation; it is a discovery of self and meaning. Results Discussion Abydos Philosophy Process vs. Product Thinking on Paper Metacognition Abydos Methodology Hexagonal Writing Multimodal Writing

17. The ability to think about thinking is at the core of everything we do. Results Discussion Abydos Philosophy Metacognitive Learners =Success Student Choice whenever possible Abydos Methodology Self-Assessment Authentic Student Inquiry (I-Search)

18. Collaboration in a world of mini-experts is an imperative function in the Global Age. Results Discussion Abydos Philosophy Learning is a social activity Abydos Methodology Scaffolding – Sentence Combining Text Rendering

19. Implications Planning – Wiggins’ UbD Method Study Limitations Selected practices highlighted

20. Outcome Abydos Philosophy Abydos Methodology Education Reform for the Global Age