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21st Century Literacies - 1 views

  • As society and technology change, so does literacy.
  • Develop proficiency with the tools of technology Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
  • ablished national standards for English language arts learners that anticipated the more sophisticated literacy skills and abilities required for full participation in a global, 21st century community. The selected standards, listed in the appendix, served as a clarion call for changes underway today in literacy education.Today, the NCTE definition of 21st century literacies makes it clear that further evolution of curriculum, assessment, and teaching practice itself is necessary.Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms—are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities, and social trajectories of individuals and groups. Twenty-first century readers and writers need to• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology• Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively andcross-culturally• Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety ofpurposes• Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneousinformation• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environmentsClick here for the complete framework. Document and Site Resources Page Tools: Email Print RSS Share This On: del.icio.us Digg Newsvine Google Yahoo Blogger Facebook Most Popular Articles Read Emailed Discussed Secondary Section Journals NCTE / IRA Standards for the English Language Arts Welcome to the College Section Elementary Section Related Search Terms display:
danielle spencer

Putting the Pieces Together - 2 views

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    This is an awesome resource for teaching in the classroom. I hope people will try some of the suggestions under using non-linguistic representations - as the PAT's show that organization is an area we need to work on in writing.
danielle spencer

Horizon Report 2009 - 3 views

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    The skills involved in writing and research have changed from those required even a few years ago. Institutions need to adapt to current student needs and identify new learning models that are engaging to younger generations.
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    This is transformative: cloud computing transforms once-expensive resources like disk storage and processing cycles into a readily available, cheap commodity
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    The emergence of cloud-based applications is causing a shift in the way we think about how we use software and store our files. Because they live on the network, applications in the cloud make it easy to share documents, collaboratively edit, and effectively manage versions.
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    Everything on the Earth's surface has a location that can be expressed with just two coordinates.
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    Increasing globalization continues to affect the way we work, collaborate, and communicate. Visualization tools are making information more meaningful and insights more intuitive.
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    a personal web - that explicitly supports one's social, professional, learning and other activities via highly personalized windows to the networked world.
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    Personal web (PLN) This transformation is gaining momentum. Blogging sites such as WordPress.com and EduBlogs, as well as tools like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr have become mainstream
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    is that eventually it might be able to help people solve very difficult problems by presenting connections between apparently unrelated concepts, individuals, events, or things - connections that it would take many people many years to perceive, but that could become obvious through the kinds of associations made possible by semantic-aware applications.
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    social/semantic web: Semantic-aware tools to help visualize relationships among concepts and ideas are just beginning to emerge, including mashups that not only plot data on graphs or maps, but also emphasize and illustrate conceptual links. For instance, WorldMapper (http:// www.worldmapper.org/)
danielle spencer

Yoda on learning, "You must unlearn what you have learned." « Constructing Me... - 1 views

  • headed
  • “You must unlearn, what you have learned.
  • rethink school and redefine the purpose and process
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  • it still lags far
  • behind the ideas of those creating the technology we use
  • create learning environments in our classrooms that are predicated on where the “visionaries” see the reality of technology existing down the road.
  • we need to design them around the act of learning.
  • if we listen now, letting this discussion lead in the process of rethinking schools, we just might make a major leap forward.
  • “windows that you carry
  • “portable portals” will “remake both book publishing and Hollywood”
  • what are we doing to provide them process knowledge to creatively integrate new tools of this sort into their learning lives?
  • ‘universal book’
  • contextual innovation will not come from faster chips or wireless networks.
  • The weird thing about the iPad is that it has landed us 180 degrees from where we thought we were heading
  • apps, apps, apps
  • This vision is forming while we teach kids about folders and keeping their work organize
  • as discourse moves from the page to the networked screen, the social aspect of reading and writing move to the fore.
  • To succeed, publishers will have to embrace multimedia and community-building.
  • But that is what “IS” not what will “BE
  • are we taking those things that have been put in our hands (or at least could be) and designing spaces and opportunities to launch our students forward?
  • the power of a new form of hardware, the tablet:
  • Google believes that the operating system should be nearly invisible.
  • hrome-powered netbook
  • Web apps.’
  • what should school be
  • What should it look like?
  • What will we do when the open-source mindset hits the educational system full force?
  • had the freedom to develop ideas and interests without constraints will challenge a system that wants to categorize and organize them and then define their learning for them
  • rethinking school and discovering its purpose in our society today:
  • e learner at the center
  • students will decide what they want to learn; when, where, and with whom; and  they will learn by doing.
  • have we really made strides that would allow school to propel students along the trajectory suggested above?
  • 4. How do we keep the answers from 1 – 3 from becoming the entrenched status quo?
  • “unlearn what we have learned”
  • and start learning a whole new way
  • study, imagine, and move creativity and innovation forward;
  • to aggressively challenge each other and become the type of “critical collaborative” we ask our students to become in the classroom.
danielle spencer

What does UDL look like? | EdReach - 1 views

  •  We have to create learning spaces that allow all students the best opportunity to learn.
  •  There’s no need for a student struggling in reading to fall behind in science if they can learn the information from an audio file or text-to-speech screen reading software.  
  •  Why should a student who struggles with writing be forced to take notes, when they can record the information for later playback, or type the notes on a computer.  
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  • why can’t we allow it for any student
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