PML Day 2Understanding Literacy as Situated/Starting your Blog

Today’s Agenda

Welcome/Housekeeping

Review of last class/Discuss videos

Defining 21st Century Literacy

Discuss Survey of Literacy Practices

Four Resources Model

Blogging

Today’s Goals

Understand the concept of literacy as “situated”

Start your professional blog

Welcome

The Videos

One half of the class will discuss “What does it Mean to be Literate in the 21st Century” and the other half will discuss “Learning to Change; Changing to Learn”

Each person must be prepared to share what was discussed at their table.

setting a Purpose for Viewing

“squared” with me

“peaked” my interest

still “rolling” around in my

head

orPlus

Minus

Interesting

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Defining 21st Century Literacy

Can we as a class come up with a definition of what it means to be literate in the 21st Century?

What must a literate person be able to know/do in order to participate fully in today’s/tomorrow’s society?

Teaching strategy: freewrite/snowball

Survey of Literacy Practices

How would you adapt this in for use with your students?

Four Resources Model

What do competent readers do?

What are the implications for us as teachers?

Code BreakerHow do I crack this text?

How does it work?

Is there more than one semiotic system operating here?

If so, how do they relate?

What are its (their) codes and conventions?

How do the parts relate singly and in combination?

Meaning MakerHow are the ideas in this text sequenced—do they connect with one another?

Is the text linear or nonlinear; interactive or non-interactive?

How does this affect the way I make meaning?

What prior knowledge and experiences might help me make meaning of this text?

How will my purpose for reading, and the context in which I am reading, influence my meaning making?

Are there other possible meanings and readings of this text

text?

Text User

What is the purpose of this text, and what is my purpose in using it?

How have the uses of this text shaped its composition?

What should I do with this text in this context?

What will others do with this text?

What are my options or alternatives after reading?

Text Analyst

What kind of person, with what interests and values, produced this text?

What are the origins of this text?

What is the text trying to make me believe and do?

What beliefs and positions are dominant in the text?

What beliefs and positions are silenced or absent?

What do I think about the way this text presents these ideas, and what alternatives are there?

Having critically examined this text, what action am I going to take?

Blogging!

Why?

Blogging

When?

Blogging!

How?/Where?

Once your blog is set up

Using Google Docs, redesign the literacy survey for use in your next practicum placement

Embed it on your blog

Write a one paragraph reflection explaining what you changed and why.

For next weekShare the url for your blog with me and the rest of the class via form on my blog.

Watch:

Xplanevisualthinking.Did you Know 4.0 (video)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8&feature=related

Lucier, R. (2009). Creative Commons: What every educator needs to know. (Slideshare) http://www.slideshare.net/thecleversheep/creative-commons-what-every-educator-needs-to-know-presentation

If you get really stuck--don’t freak out! I’ll try to have the lab booked for next class too and we can work out any kinks then.