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/Contemporary Literacy
Presented byDavid WarlickThe Landmark Projecthttp://davidwarlick.com/
Zer-Aviv, Mushon. "Digital Divide." Mushon's Photostream. 15 Oct 2006. 30 May 2007 <http://flickr.com/photos/mushon/270775337/>.
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Online Handouts
Session Tags: redefine literacy warlick
NECC Tag: n07s705
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May 11 Orders for Halo 3 hit 4.5 million.
..and it isn’t even released yet!
67 Million user (2006)
250,000 new members a day
Almost 7 million residents
$1/4 Million transactions a day
Opening facts
The Information Landscape that we use is changing!
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Beginning!I learned in the 1980s that what made these new technologies so special was that they were machines that you operated by communicating with them!
What I learned later, was that it was actually that these machines gave us new ways to communicate with each other!
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21st Century Learning?
MarieCurie
SigmundFreud
AlbertEinstein
MyGrandmother?MargaretMead
• How many of you learned one?• How many of you learned a wrong one?
How, and how well, do we learn from each other?
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http://labs.digg.com/swarm/
Information is dynamic. It is made for conversation.
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Heidigoseek, "AADL - New Books." Heidigoseek's Photostream. 20 Mar 2006. 13 Nov 2006 <http://flickr.com/photos/heidigoseek/115581765/>.
Althouse, Ann. "September 11th News." Ann Althouse's Photostream. 11 Sep 2005. 13 Nov 2006 <http://flickr.com/photos/althouse/42300120/>.
Who do? we trust? The source that warns us, or the source that seems more interested in protecting its own authority?
No answer! Just a good question?
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• Find it – in a digital networked landscape
• Decode it – regardless of the format
• Evaluate it – to determine its value
• Organize it – into personal digital libraries
Reading » Exposing
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Reading » Exposing
When there’s too much information to search through -- then we need to learn to train the information to find us!
RSS
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It’s not just reading the information…
It’s exposing information!
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Arithmetic » Employing
Arithmetic is about making numbers tell their story. When all information is made of numbers, then arithmetic becomes so much more.
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Arithmetic » Employing
Processing sound?
Processing images?
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Arithmetic » Employing
• Add & Subtract• Process & Synthesize• Manipulate• Assemble & Take Apart• Mix & Remix
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It’s not just about arithmetic…
It’s about employing information to accomplish goals.
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Writing » Expressing
Expressing compellingly with Text Images Sound Animation Video
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Writing » Expressing
Remixing content to communicate -- to express ideas compellingly?
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Writing » Expressing
Anderson, Chris. "The Long Tail." WIRED Magazine Oct 2004. 17 Mar 2005 <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html>.
What are we depriving our children of by not teaching them from the long tail?
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It’s not just about writing…
It’s about expressing ideas compellingly!
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Ethics Ethics Ethics• Spam cost the world $50
billion dollars in 2005 (U.S. $19b).
• Expected to double in 2007.• According to the Copenhagen
Consensus
We could bring HIV/AIDS under control for less than $35 billion.
Jennings, Richi. “Spam and Other Email Threats: Market and Technology Update.” Ferris Research. 8 Jun 2007. Ferris Research. 9 Jun 2007 <http://www.ferris.com/>.
Kerr, Roger. “Hard-Hedaded Spending Decisions not Cold-Hearted.” BusinessROUNDTABLE. 2 Jul 2004. New Zealand Business Roundtable. 9 Jun 2007
<http://www.nzbr.org.nz/documents/articles/articles-2004/040702Copenhagen.htm>
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Ethics Ethics Ethics
• Seek truth and express it
• To minimize harm
• To be accountable
• To respect and protect the information infrastructure
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Ethics
• Who’s Responsible I worried about making my students’
developing language skills available to a wider audience – but I needn't have. They are developing their own voice and with it a greater degree of responsibility Paul Harrington
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•Arithmetic
•Writing
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Two Things We Know
Nature Information
has Changed
Nature Information
has Changed
Preparing Children for an unpredictable
future
Preparing Children for an unpredictable
future
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