Educon2.0 Presentation by Sharon and Meg Peters, Jan. 26 2008

2. Sharon Peters - teacher, ped. consultant, mother of 3 teenagers Meg Peters - Gr. 10 student, Lower Canada College, daughter, sister, 308 friends on FB

3. Some Questions to Examine in Our Conversation How do we include multiple literacies in our learning processes? What are the learning activities and situations that will reflect the development of competencies of multiple literacies? Why do we need to understand the importance of multiple literacies? How do we go about best evaluating these competencies?

5. Why do we need to understand the importance of multiple literacies?

6. “Understand the word, understand the world” understand the world”

7. I conjecture that by 2018, a student will routinely be judged not only by her ability to write a 5-paragraph essay but her ability to represent her ideas via a 5 minute podcast, 2 minute movie, and level in an educational game.

9. How do we include multiple literacies in our learning processes?

11. Rationale - need for reflection Taken from Québec Education Program

12. Taken from Québec Education Program

15. Rationale : LITERACY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Literacy, simply put, is about meaning-making Quote taken from the Québec Education Program

16. To be literate, we must make meaning from all the information that is available to us - multi-modal information audio graphical visual tactile symbolic/representational

18. The need to include “visual grammar” into our frameworks of literacy

20. These tools offer affordances for students to making meaning

22. What are the learning activities and situations that will reflect the development of competencies of multiple literacies?

23. Meg’s Journey as a digital learner

29. (Tapscott) Whereas previous generations value loyalty, seniority, security and authority, t he NetGen’s norms reflect a desire for creativity, social connectivity, fun, freedom, speed, and diversity in their workplaces.

30. Shared online learning spaces provide opportunities for students to "be human together" (Siemens)

31. Têtes à Claques

32. It’s all about AUDIENCE Moist Continental LCC Blogs

33. "From all of the work that we have done with other students, I have learned how to look over other people's work and let them edit my own.”

35. How do we go about best evaluating these competencies?