Literacy in the 21st century for CCIRA convention by Kylene Beers and Bob Probst
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Transcript of Literacy in the 21st century for CCIRA convention by Kylene Beers and Bob Probst
CCIRA 2012
Kylene Beers
Robert E. Probst
Twitter.com/kbeers
Beers.probst@gmail
Literacy in the 21st Century
GOAL
Share the essentials or critical components of literacy education in the 21st century
TWITTER.COM/KBEERS
TWITTER.COM/BOBPROBST
When you have questions . . .
Critical Components of Effective 21st Century
Schools
1. UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN LITERACY DEMANDS
21st Century Literacies Definition
In order to thrive in an increasingly interdependent, global society, students need to acquire the full range of 21st century literacies. As defined by NCTE, 21st century literacies are essential to student achievement; they include the ability to…
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
“In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.”
The World is Flat
Thomas Friedman
Critical Components of Effective 21st Century
Schools
1 . UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN LITERACY
DEMANDS
2.Highly engaged school community
(faculty, students, parents)
“When the profit motive becomes unmoored from the purpose motive, bad things happen.”
Critical Components of Effective 21st Century
Schools
1 . UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN LITERACY
DEMANDS
2.HIGHLY ENGAGED SCHOOL COMMUNITY
(FACULTY, STUDENTS, PARENTS)
3.Highly skilled readers and writers for
Content Areas
Achievement
Percentile
Minutes of Reading per Day
Words per Year
90th 40.4 2,357,00050th 12.9 601,00010th 1.6 51,000
Reading Volume of Fifth-Grade Students of Different Levels of Achievement
(Based on In and Out of School Reading Logs)
Anderson, Wilson, & Fielding, 1988
Move from Best Practices to Next Practices
Critical Components of Effective 21st Century
Schools
1 . UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN LITERACY
DEMANDS
2.HIGHLY ENGAGED SCHOOL COMMUNITY (FACULTY, STUDENTS,
PARENTS)
3.HIGHLY SKILLED READERS AND WRITERS FOR CONTENT AREAS
4.Fluid use of multiple tech
tools
To understand how the “how” is changing, let’s look back to the literacy demands of an earlier time…
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Critical Components of Effective 21st Century
Schools
1. UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN
LITERACY DEMANDS
2.HIGHLY ENGAGED SCHOOL COMMUNITY
(FACULTY, STUDENTS, PARENTS)
3.HIGHLY SKILLED READERS AND WRITERS FOR
CONTENT AREAS
4.FLUID USE OF MULTIPLE TECH TOOLS
--Wayne Otto
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Learn More
Twitter/KyleneBeers or Twitter/BobProbst
KyleneBeers.com (Kylene’s blog)
Article from us on why reading lit is important:
Bit.ly/f79ziP
Slides at Slideshare.com
Summer Reading Institute in San Antonio, Texas, June 19-22, 2011
Summer Reading Institute in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, June 26-30, 2011
Info for both at www.heinemann.com (click on workshops)