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New Learners New Landscapes

New Learners New Landscapes Faces of Technology Day | Magee Secondary February 8, 2008 Susan Atkey – Reference Librarian, UBC Mary Locke – Teacher-Librarian, VSB Gwen Ingham – Teacher-Librarian, VSB A Vision of Students Today Video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o Who are they?

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New Learners New Landscapes

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  1. New LearnersNew Landscapes Faces of Technology Day | Magee Secondary February 8, 2008 Susan Atkey – Reference Librarian, UBC Mary Locke – Teacher-Librarian, VSB Gwen Ingham – Teacher-Librarian, VSB

  2. A Vision of Students Today Video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

  3. Who are they? Digital Natives

  4. Digital Native - Stats • 96% go online from home Before leaving university • 500,000 commercials seen • 200,000 emails / instant messages • 10,000 hours TV • 5,000 hours reading books

  5. New Literacies • Today, reading, reading instruction, and more broadly conceived notions of literacy and literacy instruction are being defined by change in even more profound ways as new technologies require new literacies to effectively exploit their potentials. These include technologies such as gaming software, video technologies. technologies that establish communities on the Internet, search engines, webpages, and many more yet to emerge. Donald J. Leu, Jr. Toward a Theory of New Literacies Emerging From the Internet and Other Information and Communication Technologies. http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/leu/

  6. Web 2.0 • A second generation of web sites and services (such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies) which facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users. • Key features of web 2.0: • Participatory / Social • Collaborative • Distributed • Fluidity – perpetual beta

  7. The view from post-secondary • UBC classes are incorporating more new web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, and RSS in course materials to create: • interactive course pages • databases of sharable lesson plans & readings • participatory and collaborative course reading • Course notes archives • Collaborative syllabus development

  8. A few examples from UBC of web 2.0 tools in and out of the classroom …

  9. BLOG: Human and Civil Rights in Latin America http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/~blamb/last301.html

  10. WIKI: EDCI 565 http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/EDCI565

  11. VIRTUAL WORLDSUBC Arts Campus Buchanan Island http://ubcartssecondlife.notlong.com

  12. How do we keep pace with our students in the face of rapidly evolving technology?

  13. Training sessions for digital immigrants • UBC Library: TOTS -Tools for Outreach and Teaching Series • Open to all library staff • 2-hour session approximately once a month

  14. UBC - TOTS series Format: • Each session looks at a single tool • 3 components: • Speakers • Hands-on segment • Faciliated questions • How do you see yourself using this in your work environment? • What are some of the advantages of using this technology? • What are some of the challenges of using this technology?

  15. TOTS Wiki http://tots.pbwiki.com

  16. One New Learner:A Case Study

  17. http://libe508ml.pbwiki.com/Our+new+teaching

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