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Key Skills in Digital Literacy Bill Lord www.lordlit.com @Joga5 Bill Lord @joga5 www.lordlit.com

DefinitionsDigital literacy is the ability tolocate, organize, understand, evaluate, and analyze information using digitaltechnology. It involves a working knowledge of currenthigh-technology, and an understanding ofhow it can be used.

DefinitionsMultiliteracies (New London Group.)• The world is becoming smaller, communication between other cultures/languages is necessary to anyone. The usage of the English language is also being changed.• The second way to incorporate the term multiliteracies is the way technology and multimedia is changing how we communicate.

“something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better” Bill Lord @joga5 www.lordlit.com

This slide was a call back to the 1990s when we all had Paul Johnson’s How to MakeBooks in Primary schools and used them to get children writing. The issue was that, alltoo often, the quality of the books outweighed the quality of the writing contained inthem.

•Children need to have writing modelled to them (on paper or electronically)•Children need to, at times and where appropriate, feel uncomfortable about the writingprocess BUT TO FEEL SUPPORTED AT ALL TIMES The Writing Commandments Bill Lord @joga5 www.lordlit.com

Key Questions• What do you want from blogging? – What do you perceive as the benefits for the children in your class? – What will be the focus of your blog? • Diary • Collection of work • Entirely text based? • Using Web 2.0 materials

Potential unrecognised….School Reports• Tolstoy: “Both unable and unwilling to learn.”• Louis Pasteur: “A mediocre pupil in his baccalaureate.”• Roald Dahl: English composition. “The boy is an indolent and illiterate member of the class.”

The teaching of writingMaking explicit the internal conversationwhich takes placein a writer’s mind.

Teaching how to write on a blog• Which skills are needed? – Oracy – Planning – Drafting – Editing – Reviewing

Reading blogs• Modelling• Timing• Maintaining

Commenting on blogs• Who comments?• What is the language of comment? – Is there a meta-language?

The able writer may…….• Possess a strong awareness of audience• Show an interest in the craft of writing• Be capable of writing at length while maintaining a sense of audience, purpose and organisation• Write in original ways and experiment with styles• Summarise succinctly• Show a dislike of repetition and closed tasks• Apply reading experiences to writing tasks

Vocabulary choices• How do you develop• Fluffy girls versus non-descriptive boys

Training backwards

Some success stories

Book Reviews Bill Lord @joga5 www.lordlit.com

Removing Barriers to Literacy• Expectations• Speaking and listening• Sequence, sequence, sequence

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