The "Worlds" Wishes Presented by Angela Maiers

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.

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.

Literacy “Basics” Phonemic Awareness Phonics Fluency Vocabulary Comprehension

Phonemic Awareness

Phonics

Fluency

Vocabulary

Comprehension

Text Literacy Media Literacy Visual Literacy Computer Literacy ICT Literacy Cultural Literacy 21 st Century Literacies

Text Literacy

Media Literacy

Visual Literacy

Computer Literacy

ICT Literacy

Cultural Literacy

The World is Changed The Internet is the new economy’s defining technology for generating productivity gains (Friedman, 2005)

What If....

Technology has everything to do with literacy. And being able to use the latest technologies has everything to do with being literate.

Technology has everything

to do with literacy.

And being able to use the latest technologies has everything to do with

being literate.

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

Left to Right multi-directional

Top to Bottom hyperlink

Pictures as “Support” Visuals ARE message

ABC’s www.

“ .” .com, .org

NEW “Basics” identify important questions locate information search, link, connect critically evaluate that information synthesize information; communicate the answers to others.

identify important questions

locate information

search, link, connect

critically evaluate that information

synthesize information;

communicate the answers to others.

Page Screen

Literacy Change : Online=offline Trad-S Online-W STRONG BOTH! WEAK BOTH! Trad-W Online-S Lue, 2006

New World, New Expectations What Can We Do? Bring the Outside In Start with Visual Literacy Explicit Instruction in New Literacies

Bring the Outside In

Start with Visual Literacy

Explicit Instruction in New Literacies

Bring the Outside In Merge

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

Web 2.0/3.0

MySpace

“ IM”ing

Texting

Blogging

Tweeking

Weblogs

Podcasts

Web Tools

Web Production (You tube, flicker, imovie)

Merging Old and New Literacies Already Do Could Do ??????????????????? ??????????????????? Podcasts Presentations Powerpoint Report Blog Journal Website Newsletter Class Web Message Morning Messages Digital Storytelling Write/Tell Stories

Start With Visual Literacy Live in a world of images 94 % of information is visual More than “looking at the picture”

Live in a world of images

94 % of information is visual

More than “looking at the picture”

BIG IDEAS IN NONFICTION P E N G U I N F R A N L A N T I N G

Building Blocks of Images ELEMENTS OF DESIGN LINE SHAPE DIRECTION SIZE TEXTURE COLOR VALUE/TONE PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN Harmony Repetition Variation Contrast Dominance Gradation

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN

LINE

SHAPE

DIRECTION

SIZE

TEXTURE

COLOR

VALUE/TONE

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

Harmony

Repetition

Variation

Contrast

Dominance

Gradation

Explicit Teaching

Literacy “Basics” Phonemic Awareness Phonics Fluency Vocabulary Comprehension

Phonemic Awareness

Phonics

Fluency

Vocabulary

Comprehension

NEW “Basics” identify important questions locate information search, link, connect critically evaluate that information synthesize information; communicate the answers to others.

identify important questions

locate information

search, link, connect

critically evaluate that information

synthesize information;

communicate the answers to others.

On Line Example

Sign in Web Images Groups News Fro ogle Maps more » Advanced Search Preferences Web Results 1 - 10 of about 11,500,000 for Irish Immigration . (0.07 seconds) News results for Irish Immigration - View today's top stories Irish nationals smuggled into US from Canada via pub - National Post - May 19, 2006 Immigration 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

Sign in Web Images Groups News Fro ogle Maps more » Advanced Search Preferences Web Results 1 - 10 of about 11,500,000 for Irish Immigration . (0.07 seconds)

News results for Irish Immigration - View today's top stories Irish nationals smuggled into US from Canada via pub - National Post - May 19, 2006 Immigration 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

It tells me if I need to narrow my search better It helps me decide if the site will have the information I need I looked at the top of the search results page It said it had teacher lesson ideas not just facts How many websites were found using this search? 11,500,000 Which site is more likely to be helpful for history teacher rather than students? Memory.loc.gov Why is that important? How do you know? Question

For the first time in history our job as educators is to prepare our students for a future that we can not clearly describe.

For the first time in history our job as educators is to prepare our students for a future that we can not clearly describe.

They really CAN have the world at their fingertips! Thank You For Your Time!