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This presentation examines the "new basics" for literacy and learning in the 21st Century.
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The "Worlds" Wishes Presented by Angela Maiers PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
New Expectations The globalization of the economy and its concomitant demands on the workforce requires a different education that enhances the ability of learners to access, assess, adopt, and apply knowledge, to think independently to exercise appropriate judgment and to collaborate with others to make sense of new situations. The objective of education is no longer simply to convey a body of knowledge, but to teach how to learn, problem-solve and synthesize the old with the new. PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
Literacy “Basics” • Phonemic Awareness • Phonics • Fluency • Vocabulary • Comprehension PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
Text Literacy Media Literacy Visual Literacy Computer Literacy ICT Literacy Cultural Literacy 21st Century Literacies PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
The World is Changed The Internet is the new economy’s defining technology for generating productivity gains (Friedman, 2005) PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
What If.... PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
Technology has everything to do with literacy. And being able to use the latest technologies has everything to do with being literate. PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
New Rules of the Game • Left to Right multi-directional • Top to Bottom hyperlink • Pictures as “Support” Visuals ARE message • ABC’s www. • “.” .com, .org Old New PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
NEW “Basics” • identify important questions • locate information • search, link, connect • critically evaluate that information • synthesize information; • communicate the answers to others. PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
Page Screen PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
Literacy Change: Online=offline STRONG BOTH! Trad-W Online-S Trad-S Online-W WEAK BOTH! PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007 Lue, 2006
New World, New Expectations What Can We Do? • Bring the Outside In • Start with Visual Literacy • Explicit Instruction in New Literacies PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
Bring the Outside In Merge PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
Technology Biography • Web 2.0/3.0 • MySpace • “IM”ing • Texting • Blogging • Tweeking • Weblogs • Podcasts • Web Tools • Web Production (You tube, flicker, imovie) Call Upon the Experts PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
Merging Old and New Literacies Already Do Could Do PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
Start With Visual Literacy • Live in a world of images • 94 % of information is visual • More than “looking at the picture” PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
BIG IDEAS IN NONFICTION P E N G U I N PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007 F R A N L A N T I N G
Building Blocks of Images • PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN • Harmony • Repetition • Variation • Contrast • Dominance • Gradation ELEMENTS OF DESIGN • LINE • SHAPE • DIRECTION • SIZE • TEXTURE • COLOR • VALUE/TONE PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
Explicit Teaching PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
Literacy “Basics” • Phonemic Awareness • Phonics • Fluency • Vocabulary • Comprehension PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
NEW “Basics” • identify important questions • locate information • search, link, connect • critically evaluate that information • synthesize information; • communicate the answers to others. PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
On Line Example PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
Sign inWebImagesGroupsNewsFro ogleMapsmore »Advanced SearchPreferencesWeb Results 1 - 10 of about 11,500,000 for IrishImmigration. (0.07 seconds) • News results for Irish Immigration - View today's top storiesIrish nationals smuggled into US from Canada via pub - National Post - May 19, 2006Immigration and the Security-Technology Complex - Yahoo! News - May 18, 2006 • the Irish Immigrants The third waves of Irish immigration began in the mid-19th century around the ... Another pull factor in the third wave of Irish immigration was that their ...www2.ops.org/NORTH/curriculum/ socstudies/EthnicB2/past/Irish.htm - 16k - Cached - Similar pages • Immigration: The Irish By 1840, the Irish constituted nearly half of all entering immigrants, ... (Library of Immigration persisted. More than 2.6 million Irish came in the ...library.thinkquest.org/20619/Irish.html - 10k - Cached - Similar pages • Irish Immigration Other Irish immigrants became coalminers in Pennsylvania. Working conditions in the mines were ...Irish immigrants arriving in the United States in 1902. ...www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAEireland.htm - 42k - Cached - Similar pages • Irish Immigrants in America during the 19th Century It was estimated that 80% of all infants born to Irish immigrants in New York ... The Irish were unique among immigrants. They fiercely loved America but ...www.kinsella.org/history/histira.htm - 10k - Cached - Similar pages • Immigration... Irish: Colonial Immigration Feature presentation for teachers on the history of Irish immigration to the US, The Learning Page, The Library of Congress.memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/irish.html - 81k - Cached - Similar pages • Immigration... Irish: Irish-Catholic Immigration In later years, the majority of Irish immigrants were women. ... Colonial Immigration | Irish-Catholic Immigration to America | Adaptation and Assimilation ...memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/irish2.html - 82k -Cached - Similar pages • Result Page: 1 ©2006 Google PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
For the first time in history our job as educators is to prepare our students for a future that we can not clearly describe. PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
They really CAN have the world at their fingertips! Thank You For Your Time! PLEASE DO NOT DUPLICATE, ©Maiers 2007
