DIGITAL LITERACIES

Dawn MacIsaac

November 2011

Where to begin??? Information for educators and their students

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Access information efficiently and effectively

* Owning and organizing the internet

* Collaborative and digital citizenship Analyze media and information critically and competently * Curating, copyright awareness and digital judgment

Use information accurately and creatively and apply tools effectively * Creating for audience and purpose* Based on the curriculum continuum

Digital Literacy

Continue to learn

and create for

yourself and with students.Incorporat

e a few tools for

the classroom.

Join a PLN and create

organizational tools.Start by

talking to other

educators and see what

tools they use.

TERMINOLOGY

Dashboard Widget Tags RSS Themes Settings Mashup pings

Embed code 2.0, 3.0 #hashtags .dll .epub Friends Privacy Post

Some words are new and some words are not what they used to be…..

OWNING THE INTERNET…..

Means…*organizing the Internet

*Learning to collaborate and be a digital citizen

Picture by Adam Baker (FlickerCC)

Access Information efficiently and effectively

ORGANIZERS Your favorite social networks and tools

can be organized into your own home page. Home page organizers allow you to put all your web favorites in one place.

IGoogle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbf0dlESX8E

Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com/en

ORGANIZING THE INTERNET The internet is huge. It’s full of useful and not so useful

information. How do you make what is relevant come to you?

IGooglenetvibes

ADD YOUR FAVORITE ORGANIZATIONAL TOOLS

http://livebinders.com/play/play/110805

https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/INSITE/Web+2.0+Tools+-+New+Possibilities+for+Teaching+and+Learning

Everno

te

Google

Reader

Drop box

DIIGO

Tweetd

eck

Google

calendar

LivebinderScribd

delicious

COLLABORATION MEANS GETTING INVOLVED(Create a PLN)

Use twitter hashtags (tweetdeck)

#edchat#elemchat#edtechtalk#scichat#mathchat#mschat#hschat#cpchat

Image created with twitter mosaic maker. http://sxoop.com/twitter/

Photo by Alec Couros

Teachers are….Connectors Locally and Globally, Content and People

Content Creators Teachers who use interactive media professionally will find they rapidly develop learning styles and strengths similar to their students

Collaborators We can no longer try to be the “holder of all the knowledge”

CoachesModel the skills the students will need

Change agentsUse web tools to move away from some traditional paradigms of instruction

Pg 136&137, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts (2009)by Will Richardson

DIGITAL COLLABORATION LEADS TO DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP

SHARING The Moral Imperative

This video is an abridged version of :

http://bloggingonthebay.edublogs.org/2010/10/12/dean-shareski-sharing-is-a-moral-obligation-for-teachers/

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A TEACHER NEVER KNOWS WHAT WILL INSPIRE A STUDENT’S IMAGINATION OR MOTIVATION, OR WHAT WILL CONNECT A STUDENT TO THEIR LEARNING. RECOGNIZING THAT EACH STUDENT COMES TO SCHOOL WITH A HOST OF MEMORIES, EXPERIENCES, RELATIONSHIPS, AND SKILLS CAN BE REASSURING TO TEACHERS WHO KNOW THEY CAN USE THESE TO HELP STUDENTS MAKE IMPORTANT CONNECTIONS.

(pg26 Language arts Curriculum Guide)

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POSSIBILITES THRU TECHNOLOGYTEDxNYED - Will Richardson - 03/05/2011

INNOVATIVE STUDENThttp://markaklassen.com

CURATING AND DIGITAL JUDGEMENT*Copy right awareness

*Using “settings” as protection for their digital footprint

Picture by Mo Riza

A 21st century skill is the ability to analyze media and information critically and competently.

1) Discuss being aware of who made the website and why the website was created. (tree squid) (provincial guidelines)

2) Discuss that search engine results must be double checked.

3) Discuss that every time you agree to use a username and password you must study the settings to see what parts of your profile are being made public. Old accounts should be purged.

4) Discuss changing passwords.

5) Talk about digital footprint.

6) Explain that copyright must be respected.

Topics that students need to understand…

Copyright in Canada

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/legislation/canadian_law/federal/copyright_act/cdn_copyright_ov.cfm

You tube Creative Commonshttp://www.youtube.com/t/creative_commons

Media Awarenesshttp://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/index.cfm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InzDjH1-9Ns

INFORMATION CURATION Emerging devices, tools, media, and

virtual environments offer opportunities for creating new types of learning communities for students and teachers.

Searching for content requires wise information literacy strategies (embedded in the curriculum learning processes) to avoid being lost in the information labyrinth. 

CREATING FOR AUDIENCE AND PURPOSE

Picture by Jeremy Hall (FlickrCC)

A 21st century skill is to use information accurately and creatively and apply tools effectively.

•Using the curriculum

Gather information/Researc

h

*Understand the importance of multiple sites

and valid sources for research

*Understand strategies that try to influence

people to detect bias

*Sources should be cited and

credited

Publishing*Scan/embed materials into

projects*Create graphics*Cite and credit

materials* Create

presentations (choice of tools) to

communicate knowledge

* Understand the connection between

presentation on a website and its

audience.*Frame points and

issues to create persuasive

productions.

General Communicati

on*Email

*participate in online learning

groups *understand

copyright and ethical issues* Understand

personal safety

Technology, in the continuum, is divided into three strands

pg195

KATHY CASSIDY

Grade one teacher Kathy Cassidy describes this as “fun” while students were predicting, recording, counting, writing numbers, finding the largest number. Some children chose to talk about it on video.During other activities Kathy might provide choices such as using an iPad app called Screenchomp to explain what they had learned. A few children could make a drawing Animationish, an animation program . Others might chose a digital drawing program and to record their explanation on Audioboo.

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Students creating for a larger global audience and while learning about digital citizenship.

AUDIENCE IS THE DIFFERENCE?

Cloud In house

You Tube Diigo, Delicious,

Symbaloo Blog Prezi, Gliffy Flicker Glogster Shelfari Youth voices Skype an Expert/Author Museum Box

Movie maker My favorites

Word processing Slideshow Camera Poster Book clubs Presentation Text books Heritage fair

http://pwoessner.com/2010/11/08/digital-literacy-2010-differentiating-through-expression-styles/

LEARN WITH YOUR STUDENTS

Try new tools..

Befunky DuckduckgoQuizlet SquareleafTurnitin Primary wallApps Story birdWordle SlideshareQuickmaps MobilemePopplet WikibooksAnimotoVoicethread

Partner and Santa created in Befunky

DIGITAL STORY TELLINGMIDDLE SCHOOL JOURNAL MAY 2011 • VOLUME 42 • NUMBER 5 HTTP://BIT.LY/QLNV0I

Point of view: Outlines the point of the story and the perspective from which the story is told.

A dramatic question: Sets the tension of the story by identifying issues to be resolved.

Emotional content: Engages the audience through common emotions and themes (love, pain, humor).

The gift of your voice: Helps the audience make meaning of images.

The power of the soundtrack: Sets the mood of the story.

Economy: Balances the auditory and visual tracks of meaning.

Pacing: Sustains the attention of the audience by establishing and modifying the rhythm of the story. http://www.amle.org/Publications/MiddleSchoolJournal/Articles/May2011/Article3/tabid/

2409/Default.aspx

DIGITAL STORY TELLING

http://www.district18.nbed.nb.ca/other/video/pressure-be-perfect

Watch the award winning "Pressure to be Perfect" and "Live the Dream” videos by clicking on the link to view an award winning student-created documentary by N.B’s District 18 students.

http://www.district18.nbed.nb.ca/whats-doc

CURRICULUM AND CONTINUUM

Effective Use of Technology Within the Core Curriculum Areas

Let’s look at the curriculum guidelines

Look again…with Wordle!

BLOOMS

Strategies to Sustaining Reading

Strategies to Expand Thinking

Solving words Predicting

Monitoring and Correcting Making Connections

Searching for and Using Information

Inferring

Maintaining Fluency Analyzing

Adjusting Critiquing

Systems for strategic actions for processing written text

REFERENCESBooks

Richardson, R (2009) Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, Corwin Press

Trilling, B. Fadel, C. (2009) 21st Century Skills: Learning For Life in Our Time

Pinnell, G., Fountas, I. (2007) The Continuum of Literacy Learning

Pinnell, G., Fountas, I. (2006) Teaching for Comprehension and Fluency

Web

Shareski, D. Sharing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6k4kZCL6P0&feature=related

Or http://bloggingonthebay.edublogs.org/2010/10/12/dean-shareski-sharing-is-a-moral-obligation-for-teachers/

REFERENCES WEB

Middle School Journal Digital Storytelling: A Tool for Teaching and Learning in the YouTube Generation

http://www.amle.org/Publications/MiddleSchoolJournal/Articles/May2011/Article3/tabid/2409/Default.aspx

Judy O’Connel School Libraries and Meta Literacies in Action http://www.slideshare.net/heyjudeonline/learning-without-frontiers-school-libraries-and-metaliteracy-in-action

Judy O’Connell The Next Big Thing is Web 3.0. Catch It If You Can

http://www.slideshare.net/heyjudeonline/the-next-big-thing-is-web-30-catch-it-if-you-can

Judy O’Connel Learning in an online World

http://www.slideshare.net/heyjudeonline/learning-in-an-online-world

The 2011 Horizon Report http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf

Or http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project/horizon-reports/horizon-report-k-12-edition

Kathy Cassidy http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337

The Digital Toolbox http://livebinders.com/play/play/110805

Bloom’s Taxonomy by S Penny http://www.usi.edu/distance/bdt.htm

You Tube Copyright School http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ds_xQI2X0M