Icebreaker

What was your first computer?

Traditional Literacy & Digital Literacy

What is your definition literacy?

What would you consider a text?

Definitions

•Literacy is the ability to read and write coherently for meaning and knowledge.

•The written word, body language, media

•Digital Literacy is the ability to use technology and read digital texts. (IRA)

The ability to read, write, and interact across multiple platforms, both traditional and digital.

Dr. Alan Liu, English Department, UCSB

Tuckman, Bruce. (1965). “Developmental sequence in small groups.”

How Can We Use Social Networks to How Can We Use Social Networks to

Bridge the Gap Between the Bridge the Gap Between the

Classroom Community and Students’ Classroom Community and Students’

Social Communities?Social Communities?

Past and Present Generations

• Traditionalists: 1900-1945

• Baby Boomers: 1946-1964

• Generation X: 1965-1977

• Generation Y (The Millennials): 1978-1995

• Generation Z (The New Millennials): 1996-now

Changing Definitions of Community

• Traditionalists: Respect authority, personal contact,

technology=radio

• Baby Boomers: Questioned authority, phone contact, technology=tv

• Generation X: Independent, email contact, technology=computers

• Millennials &

• New Millennials Independent, text/email/IM contact, technology=internet

Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants

Terms coined by Marc Prensky in his article “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” (2001).

Digital Immigrants: Generations that did not grow up with computer technology and, thus, are skeptical of it.

Digital Natives: Generations that were born into computer technology and, thus, view it as necessary and essential.

PEW Research CenterAugust 2011

•Most students will take online classes, predict 50% of college presidents.

•More than half the textbooks used by undergrads will be entirely digital, predict 42% of college presidents.

•41% of college presidents say students are allowed to use laptops or other portable devices during class.

•87% of college presidents use a smartphone daily. 83% use a desktop computer and 65% use a laptop. 49% use a tablet, and 42% use an e-reader.

Gartner Survey on Digital Reading Preferences

April 2011

The time people spend reading on a digital screen is now almost equal to the time spent reading printed paper

text.

Students’ Reading and Writing Habits

Websites Further Examined

Using Social Networks Using Social Networks in the Classroomin the Classroom

Facebook (social network website): class groups,discussion posts, reminders, and creative projects.

Twitter (social networking and microblogging): classdiscussions, reminders, connections to the community.

Google Docs (web-based word processor): allows forreal time collaboration, store and share documents.

Tumblr (blogging site): allows for group discussion ona topic or essay.

Questions

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using social networking in an academic setting?

2. Is it appropriate to have facebook (or other social networking) groups for students or should online communities be kept to school websites?

3. Would you incorporate social networking into your classroom?

4. Do you think that incorporating social networking into academia will aid or hurt students as they move on from being students in the 21st century?

Challenges•Student participation

•Making the online spaces “normal” not classroom

•Access to technology

Institutions’ contracts with Blackboard or Angel

•Lack of wi-fi in classrooms

•Finding a balance between Contextualizing Content and being overly content focused.

•Cyber Citizenship

Benefits•Create transferring skills they have to academic environments through authentic tasks.

•Students learn skills that will help them think critically about “digital texts”

•Students are engaged in the material and assignments

• Develop transferrable skills for future college classes and the work world

•Helping students bridge the digital divide •Create a community that can go beyond the classroom

Ways to Get Started Transliteracy Level 1

Add one type of online element to a unit of your class make it optional for students

Transliteracy Level 2 Add a transliteracy unit or assignment

that uses an online element

Transliteracy Level 3 Fully intergrate a social community

online and have students analyze online texts, as well as create a working definition of a cyber bill of rights.

Thanks for Coming!Thanks for Coming!

Please email us for more information:

Amy Leonard leonardamy@fhda.edu

Sarah Lisha lishasarah@fhda.edu

OR check out Amy’s website:

www.deanza.edu/faculty/leonardamy/innovations