This document discusses new literacies and teaching literacy skills. It introduces habits called "Habitudes" that include imagination, curiosity, self-awareness, perseverance, courage, adaptability, and passion - qualities of great readers, writers, and researchers. It summarizes surveys that found students struggle with online research skills and lack strategies for evaluating sources. The document advocates developing curiosity in students and provides questions to spark curiosity and examples of a "Habitudes" curriculum unit focused on curiosity.

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New Literacies
Exploring
in the Classroom
Presented By:
Angela Maiers and Mark Moran
@angelamaiers @FindingDulcinea

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Teaching: Literacy

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17. HABITUDES
Habits + Attitude

18. •Imagination
•Curiosity
•Self Awareness
•Perseverance
•Courage
•Adaptability
•Passion

21. What do GREAT
readers, writers, researchers do?
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23. ▪ In 2010 Dulcinea
Media surveyed 300
middle school and
high school students
in New York. 3

24. A Majority of Students...
• don’t know how to form a sound search query;
• don’t have a strategy for dealing with poor results;
• can’t articulate how they know content is credible;
• don’t check the author or date of an article.

25. Students’ Primary “Strategy”
... wildly firing random
terms into a search box,
and hoping they’ll get
lucky.

26. Beyond Hope?
▪ Those without access to web research training
show up at college “beyond hope”….with an
“ingrained coping behaviour”… “they have
learned to ‘get by’ with Google.”
-- University College London

27. ▪ Not one of the 600 college students surveyed “could
give an adequate conceptual definition of how Google
returns results….the word ‘magic’ came up a lot.” 5
--ERIAL study (Illinois 2010)

28. Not a library class
▪ “[L]leaving information literacy to librarians alone
suggests a failure to understand the scope of the
problem.”
-- Geoffrey Nunberg

31. Habitudes
Unit of Study:
Curiosity
Lessons: 15-20 min
Unit : 4-6 Weeks

32. invite? show?
display?
expect? share?

33. Copyright Angela Maiers 2008
What’s
Your
CQ?

34. What’s Your CQ?
1.I ask questions in class.
2.My questions are simple and easy.
3.I feel comfortable asking difficult
questions or leaving questions I ask
unanswered.
4.I can identify curious people.
5.I believe curiosity is important

36. Genius Questions
What if…? Is ______ the reason for…?
I wonder why…? Can…?
If…? Would you rather…?
What is it that…? What would it take to…?
When is it…? Why is it that…?
Who could…? How is ____ like _____?
Is it possible to…? If I ______, could_____?
When is…? Does it matter if…?
What could happen if…? How can…?
If it were possible…? What is your opinion about…?
Are there…? Is it right to…?
Why is…? I wonder when…?
How…? I’m wondering if…?
Where did…? How could it…?
Do you…? Why are…?

38. Taking your CQ to the web

41. HABITUDES
BEImaginative
Creative
Generous
Courageous
Passionate
Remarkable

42. Welcome to the
New Literacy Club
where
YOU
WRITEYour
Future!!!