Why Johnny Can't Read

Why Johnny Can’t Read: A Conversation About What It Means to Be Literate...Today
Laura Deisley and David Jakes

In 140 characters or less, why did you
choose this session?

How do you define literacy?

Do you see the Internet (and Web 2.0) as “a context in which to read, write, and communicate?”
Leu et. al 2009
“Being literate in a real-world sense means being able to read and write using the media forms of the day, whatever they may be…”
Ohler 2009

Do you see the Internet (and Web 2.0) as “a context in which to read, write, and communicate?”
Leu et. Al 2009

Digital Literacy: the ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented from computers.
Paul Gilser1997

Digital Literacy: a shorthand for the myriad social practices and conceptions of engaging in meaning making mediated by texts that are produced, received, distributed and exchanged via digital codification.
Lankshear and Knobel 2008

Do you read differently?

Reading? Instapaper, Readability, Diigo, Evernote, Twitter, Posterous, Google Reader and Earth, Book Glutton, Zooburst…

Via Wired.com, Life on Earth Project, E.O Wilson Foundation

“The medium is the message…”
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964

So McLuhan suggests: Does the medium change the very nature of literacy or merely expand the means by which we convey ideas?

Transliteracy: the ability to read, write, and interact across a range of platforms and tools from orality through print, TV, radio and film, to networked digital media.
Via Transliteracy.com

What does it mean today to be functionally literate?

What is essential for schools?
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What is your definition of literacy now?

What is your personal take-awayand take-back that you will share?

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Why Johnny Can't Read

by David Jakes on Feb 02, 2011

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