Contemporary Literacy

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    1. Contemporary Literacy Presented by David Warlick The Landmark Project http://davidwarlick.com/ Zer-Aviv, Mushon. &quot;Digital Divide.&quot; Mushon's Photostream. 15 Oct 2006. 30 May 2007 <http://flickr.com/photos/mushon/270775337/>.
    2. Online Handouts Session Tags: redefine literacy warlick NECC Tag: n07s705 http://landmark-project.com/ http://handouts.davidwarlick.com/ http://landmark-project.com/sl
    3. Opening facts May 11 Orders for Halo 3 hit 4.5 million. ..and it isn’t even released yet! 67 Million user (2006) 250,000 new members a day Almost 7 million residents $1/4 Million transactions a day The Information Landscape that we use is changing!
    4. Beginning! I learned in the 1980s that what made these new technologies so special was that they were machines that you operated by communicating with them! What I learned later, was that it was actually that these machines gave us new ways to communicate with each other!
    5. 21st Century Learning?
      • How many of you learned one?
      • How many of you learned a wrong one?
      Marie Curie Sigmund Freud Albert Einstein My Grandmother? Margaret Mead How, and how well, do we learn from each other?
    6. http://labs.digg.com/swarm/ Information is dynamic. It is made for conversation.
    7. Heidigoseek, &quot;AADL - New Books.&quot; Heidigoseek's Photostream . 20 Mar 2006. 13 Nov 2006 <http://flickr.com/photos/heidigoseek/115581765/>. Althouse, Ann. &quot;September 11th News.&quot; Ann Althouse's Photostream . 11 Sep 2005. 13 Nov 2006 <http://flickr.com/photos/althouse/42300120/>. Who do? we trust? The source that warns us, or the source that seems more interested in protecting its own authority? No answer! Just a good question?
      • Find it – in a digital networked landscape
      • Decode it – regardless of the format
      • Evaluate it – to determine its value
      • Organize it – into personal digital libraries
      Reading » Exposing
    8. Reading » Exposing When there’s too much information to search through -- then we need to learn to train the information to find us! RSS
    9. It’s not just reading the information… It’s exposing information!
    10. Arithmetic » Employing Arithmetic is about making numbers tell their story. When all information is made of numbers, then arithmetic becomes so much more.
    11. Arithmetic » Employing Processing sound? Processing images?
    12. Arithmetic » Employing
      • Add & Subtract
      • Process & Synthesize
      • Manipulate
      • Assemble & Take Apart
      • Mix & Remix
    13. It’s not just about arithmetic… It’s about employing information to accomplish goals.
      • Expressing compellingly with
        • Text
        • Images
        • Sound
        • Animation
        • Video
      Writing » Expressing
    14. Writing » Expressing Remixing content to communicate -- to express ideas compellingly?
    15. Writing » Expressing Anderson, Chris. &quot;The Long Tail.&quot; WIRED Magazine Oct 2004. 17 Mar 2005 <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html>. What are we depriving our children of by not teaching them from the long tail?
    16. It’s not just about writing… It’s about expressing ideas compellingly!
    17. Ethics Ethics Ethics
      • Spam cost the world $50 billion dollars in 2005 (U.S. $19b).
      • Expected to double in 2007.
      • According to the Copenhagen Consensus We could bring HIV/AIDS under control for less than $35 billion.
      Jennings, Richi. “Spam and Other Email Threats: Market and Technology Update.” Ferris Research. 8 Jun 2007. Ferris Research. 9 Jun 2007 <http://www.ferris.com/>. Kerr, Roger. “Hard-Hedaded Spending Decisions not Cold-Hearted.” BusinessROUNDTABLE. 2 Jul 2004. New Zealand Business Roundtable. 9 Jun 2007 <http://www.nzbr.org.nz/documents/articles/articles-2004/040702Copenhagen.htm>
    18. Ethics Ethics Ethics
      • Seek truth and express it
      • To minimize harm
      • To be accountable
      • To respect and protect the information infrastructure
    19. Ethics
      • Who’s Responsible
      • I worried about making my students’ developing language skills available to a wider audience – but I needn't have. They are developing their own voice and with it a greater degree of responsibility Paul Harrington
    20. The Nature of Information is Changing
      • Reading
      • Arithmetic
      • Writing
      • Exposing
      • Employing
      • Expressing
      • Ethics
    21. Two Things We Know Nature Information has Changed Preparing Children for an unpredictable future Contemporary Literacy Learn to Teach Yourself Learning Literacy

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