New Literacy in the Web 2.0 World

Literacy in the Web 2.0 World (New Literacy) Daniel Churchill This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Hong Kong License Background image source: Flickr by Noah Sussman

Welcome! Dr. Daniel Churchill Room 116, Runme Shaw Building The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Email: dchurch@hku.hk Web: http://www.learnactivity.com Tel: +852 28591141

20 Year Ego ► No Internet ► No Windows ► No many computers around ► No MP player ► No Digital Cameras ► No PNP, no Nintendo ► No Blogs, Youtube, Facebook ► No many other artifacts that are part students’ life today Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/futurestreet/

Central Thesis • Emerging technologies create new possibilities, practices and demands • These challenge traditional conception of ‘a literate person’ while making outdated what is traditionally taught in schools • ‘Literacy’ as in the ‘new literacy’ is a metaphor for essential abilities required today to shape and communicate meanings, develop oneself, and participate in a society.

Other Emerging Literacies? • Health Literacy • Economic Literacy • Multicultural Literacy • Environmental Literacy • Human Conditions Literacy

Levels of New Literacy

What is Web 2.0? Web2.0 as a metaphor, a paradigm shift, a new popular culture (cyberculture) Blog Wiki Podcast RSS Feeds Video Sharing Social Bookmarking Social Networking Workspaces Portfolios Mobile W2 Google Docs Flickr Youtube Twitter Ning Facebook MySpace Zoho Blogger Technorati Bloglines Diigo YakPak Teacher Tube Delicious Hi5 Picasa Wikipedia Google Earth Skype Ebay Amazon Odeo …

Web 2.0 • User control of information • Web as a point of presence • Web as a social environments • Web as a platform • New forms of expressions • Read more at http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcvb5vzv_571dtmscxhp

Important Areas • Managing Information – harvesting, searching, digging, leveraging collective intelligence, community plumbing, bookmarking, tagging, subscribing • Consuming information – visual, multimodal, interactive, using tools • Designing information – blogging, digital storytelling, copyright awareness, representing, authoring, mashing • Social Networking Literacy

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/

Growth of Information • Google trillionth addresses http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/technology/internet/23search.html?_r=2 • Millions of: – Your tube videos – Blog posts – Wikipedia articles – Flickr Images, – Bookmarks, Slides, Voicethreads – Other stuff (podcasts, mindmaps, cartoons, items for sale) • Over 1b Internet users (300m in China, 170m mobile internet users) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/world/asia/15beijing.html?_r=3&ref=technology

Information Seeking Strategies – Google classroom posters: http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html – Google lesson plans: http://www.google.com/educators/activities.html – Other Google Searches: Blog Search, Books and Scholar –

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Information Seeking Strategies • And there is more, e.g., • Visual Search http://www.eyeplorer.com/ • Wiki search engine: http://www.qwika.com/ • Search for mind maps: http://www.mindmapsearch.org/ • Search with other devices

Managing Information Profiling and subscribing for information… Product Podcasts Information News Aggregator Music Something Video Else

Multimodal Information • Traditional literacy focuses on R-W-S-L (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening) • New literacy expands this to include Viewing and Representing through ‘multimodal text’

Multimodal Text Source http://www.albertocairo.com/jomc/projects/lindsay1.html

META INFORMATION Source: http://newsmap.jp/

Pop-up Books http://www.robertsabuda.com/

WebQuests and ActiveLessons • http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/grant/oceanpollu

Minard’s Map

Minard’ Map – Interactivity and Visualization

Interactivity • Contemporary technology brings visualization to much higher level by enabling interactivity • In addition, through technology it is possible to create dynamic and animated displays and to add other modalities such as audio. • Also, meta-information extends meanings

Growth of Digital Information

Creating Digital Content • Blogs (e.g., Blogger) • Wikies (e.g., Wikispaces) • Web-as-a-platform applications (e.g., GoogleDocs) • Podcasting (e.g., Gcast) • Digital Storytelling (e.g., Voicethread) • Mashing -- Mixing and re-mixing existing resources and media to create new resources

Remixing • Why is the Rum Gone? – Remix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JImcvtJzIK8&feature=related • The Dark Night (Batman) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sYBqhOEdRQ&feature=related

Copyright in Digital Age • Traditional copyright? • Why is copyright important in the digital age? • Creative Commons

Social Networking Literacy

Source: Gauravonomics from Flickr. Data from Wave 3 of the Power of the People Social Media Tracker by Universal McCann

Mobile Phones Source: https://digitalcommons.georgetown.edu/blogs/isdyahoofellow/category/bric/page/2/

Bullying • Name-calling, spreading rumors, excluding people and turning someone’s friends against them, abusive messages, racist comments, gender and sexual orientation comments (e.g., calling someone a homosexual), etc… • Last year 69% of young people said they'd been bullied… but • In a survey 83% of teachers said they hadn't seen bullying in the last 12 months Source: National Bullying Survey 2006

Example • Thirteen-year-old suffered from cyber bullying for six months. She said: quot;They were making me feel alone, like I had nobody, making me feel worthless. They dedicated whole web pages about how much they hated me and a couple of hate mail sites… I even thought about taking my own life because I thought I had nothing to live for.” Source BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/health/newsid_7921000/7921

Let’s check these… • You newer know who you are chatting to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZHq4CQekTY • Also check Megan Meier Story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw2FG-Fwpek&feature=related

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4961768.stm

Social Networking Literacy • Ability to interact with other is cyberspace in specific ways that are ethical, beneficial to other and beneficial to self. • Developing strategic alliances and engaging in uses of collaborative tools • Awareness of dangerous as well as responsibilities, knowledge of socially acceptable behavior in cyberspace • Understanding privacy issues

Modified image from : http://www.cameraposition.com/archives/77

21st century learning

Focus Questions? • What are roles of teacher librarians in promoting integration of new literacies in the curriculum? Source: http://bivdu.blogspot.com/2009/03/english-is- based-on-26-characters.html

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