This document discusses 21st century literacies needed for participation in a globally connected world. It emphasizes skills like critical thinking, collaboration, adaptability, communication, accessing and analyzing information. Various online tools are presented to help develop these skills, including tools for digital storytelling, blogging, visual and media literacy, information literacy, and global literacy. The goal is to help students become leaders, thinkers and digital citizens who can thrive in today's digital world.

1. 21st CENTURY LITERACIES
in the
GLOBALLY CONNECTED WORLD
AYŞİN ALP SEDA KABA

2. BE THE CHANGE AGENT!

3. TECH INFUSED ... CONNECTED WORLD ....
IMAGE CREDIT: Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, 21st Century Learning
Specialist at GloballyConnectedLearning.com

4. EMBRACE THIS CONNECTED CULTURE AND
INTEGRATE IT INTO THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
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IMAGE CREDIT: Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, 21st Century Learning
Specialist at GloballyConnectedLearning.com

5. TONY WAGNER’S SEVEN SURVIVAL SKILLS
• CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING
• COLLABORATION ACROSS NETWORKS AND
LEADING BY INFLUENCE
• AGILITY AND ADAPTABILITY
• EFFECTIVE ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
• CURIOSITY AND IMAGINATION
• ACCESSING AND ANALYZING INFORMATION
• INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

6. MORE SOPHISTICATED LITERACY SKILLS ARE REQUIRED FOR
FULL PARTICIPATION IN A GLOBAL COMMUNITY
IMAGE CREDIT: Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, 21st Century Learning
Specialist at GloballyConnectedLearning.com

7. AS ACTIVE & SUCCESSFUL PARTNERS OF THE GLOBAL
SOCIETY, OUR STUDENTS SHOULD DEVELOP PROFICIENCY &
FLUENCY WITH TECH TOOLS

8. TECH INTEGRATION IS NOT ABOUT
TECHNOLOGY. IT IS ALL ABOUT LEARNING!

9. SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW
IF USED CORRECTLY, TECHNOLOGY CAN GIVE EVERY STUDENT A VOICE AND
HELP TO MAKE STUDENT THINKING AND UNDERSTANDING VISIBLE.

10. DSL – DIGITAL AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Quizlet
Recipes to Good Writing Wacky Web Tales
Wonderopolis Read Write Think
Build Your Wild Self
Web Tools for Kids
50 WEB TOOLS FOR LANGUAGE LEARNERS WEB TOOLS AND APPS TO ENHANCE READING COMPREHENSION

11. DON’T BE A “DRILL & KILL” EXPERT: FILM
WEBSITES FOR ESL STUDENTS
MOVIE SEGMENTS TO ASSESS
GRAMMAR GOALS
CINEMA CLUB
LESSONS ON MOVIES
TEACH WITH MOVIES
FILM ENGLISH
OTHER FILM WEBSITES
MOVIE CLIPS
SNAG FILMS
ANY CLIP
ARCHIVE.ORG

12. RESOURCES TO ENRICH OUR STUDENTS’
LEARNING INSIDE THE CLASSROOM
21 THINGS FOR TEACHERS
21 LITERARY RESOURCES FOR THE DIGITAL TEACHER

14. HOW CAN WE HELP OUR STUDENTS BECOME
LEADERS, THINKERS, CREATORS AND
DIGITAL CITIZENS IN A GLOBAL ARENA?
WHAT IS DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP?
GOOGLE DC CURRICULUM
YouTube DC CURRICULUM
COMMON SENSE MEDIA DC CURRICULUM

15. DIGITAL LITERACY MEANS USING TECHNOLOGY
THOUGHTFULLY & RESPONSIBLY
THINKUKNOW DIGIZEN KIDSMART
INTERNET LITERACY
LEARN THE NET
DC WIKI
MEDIA SMARTS EDUCATIONAL GAMES DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP RESOURCES

16. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP FOR YOUNG LEARNERS
DIGITAL PASSPORT
WELCOME TO THE WEB
BRAINPOP DC MOVIE
INTERACTIVE WEBSITES
CARNEGIE CYBER ACADEMY
NETSMARTZ
PLANET NUTSHELL
DC SYMBALOO

18. *
DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP LIVEBINDER

19. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP ASSIGNMENT

20. DC WIKI
Bhsdigitallit.com

21. INFORMATION LITERACY

22. CAN YOUR STUDENTS LOCATE, ORGANIZE,
UNDERSTAND, ANALYZE & EVALUATE
INFORMATION USING TECHNOLOGY?
“There is so much information available that it is almost too
much, and if people aren’t prepared to process the
information effectively, it almost freezes them in their
steps.”
—Mike Summers, Vice President
for Global Talent Management at Dell
*DO I JUST GOOGLE THAT?
*INTERACTIVE TUTORIALS FOR
SEARCH SAVVY STUDENTS
*RESEARCH IN THE DIGITAL AGE
*CYBRARY MAN’S REFERENCE AND RESEARCH PAGE

23. http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html

24. http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/lessons.html

25. WEBSITE EVALUATION
WEBSITES TO VALIDATE via November Learning
EVALUATING QUALITY OF ONLINE INFORMATION via Edutopia
WEB EVALUATION via Acadia University – Canada
FINDING & EVALUATING WEBSITES via Eduplace
EVALUATING INFORMATION ON THE NET via Project Look Sharp
WEBSITE EVALUATION GUIDE via Educators Technology
DETERMINING WEBSITE CREDIBILITY via Mike Slowinski
IMAGE CREDIT bLaugh

26. EVALUATING QUALITY OF CONTENT
THE CRAP TEST
MICROSOFT CRITICAL THINKING TEACHING GUIDE
ISTE CRITICAL THINKING COMPENDIUM
Cartoon by Peter Steiner, New Yorker, July 5, 1993

27. MAKE LEARNING INTERACTIVE & COLLABORATIVE WITH
WIKIS
EXEMPLARY WIKIS:
ICT MAGIC
THE VIRTUAL CAFE
UDL TECH TOOLKIT
DIGITAL ID
TECH-KNOWLEDGE-Y-ROCKS
VISUALIZE POETRY AROUND THE WORLD
COLLABORATIVE WRITING IN THE CLOUD
50+ WAYS TO TELL A STORY WIKI
WIKISPACES tutorials and handouts

28. KIDS IN SCHOOL TODAY MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED LITERATE IN
THE FUTURE IF THEY DON’T FUNDAMENTALLY UNDERSTAND
NEW FORMS OF MEDIA
MEDIA LITERACY
WEB ENGLISH TEACHER MEDIA
LITERACY RESOURCES
MY POP STUDIO
OPEN THINKING WIKI
MEDIA HISTORY DIGITAL LIBRARY
To be truly literate, you need to be able to think critically about media, discern fact from fiction, news from
opinion, trusted from untrustworthy.

29. STUDENTS QUESTION, ANALYZE, EVALUATE
& CREATE MEDIA MESSAGES

31. HOW DO WE HELP STUDENTS CRITIQUE AND ANALYZE MEDIA THAT
PREPARES THEM FOR FUTURE CAREERS & COLLEGE?
Ad lIteracy CINE LITERACY

32. VISUAL LITERACY IS THE ABILITY TO READ, USE, EVALUATE AND
CREATE IMAGES

33. VISUAL LITERACY
IMAGE CREDIT : KAREN OGEN’S EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO
47 VISUAL LEARNING OPTIONS
VISUAL LEARNING
LITERACY SHED
PERIODIC TABLE OF VISUALIZATION

35. DIGITAL VISUAL LITERACY
Teaching with Graphic Novels Wiki
Graphic Novels
Comic Master
Comics in Education
Marvel Comic Creator
Comic Heads

36. ANALYZING CARTOONS
MAKEBELIEFS COMICS CARTOONS FOR THE CLASSROOM
20 EDUCATIONAL CARTOONS FOR BACK TO SCHOOL
COMICS AND CARTOONS

37. NEWS LITERACY
THE NY TIMES LEARNING NETWORK
BEGINNING REPORTING
SCHOOL JOURNALISM
TEACHING KIDS NEWS
TIME JOURNALISM TIPS
THE WRITE SITE
TEACHING AND LEARNING ABOUT JOURNALISM
ONLINE NEWS AND MAGAZINES FOR KIDS
KIDS POST
TEN BY TEN
HEADLINE SPOT
NEWS OF THE FUTURE
THE WRITE SITE
THE PAPERBOY

38. NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE TOOLS
NEWSPAPER TEMPLATES
DIGITAL MAGAZINES
NEWSJACK
THE NEWSPAPER CLIPPING GENERATOR
CREATING NEWSPAPERS IN THE CLASSROOM
4 WAYS TO CREATE MULTIMEDIA MAGAZINES
CREATING A CLASSROOM NEWSPAPER
GRAFFITI CREATOR
FLIPBOARD
PAPERLI

39. AD LITERACY
THE BEST SITES TO LEARN ABOUT ADVERTISING
INTERACTIVES
WEB ENGLISH TEACHER RESOURCES
DON’T BUY IT GET MEDIA SMART
DECONSTRUCTING A TV COMMERCIAL
THE SUPERBOWL TV ADS
BELIEVE IT OR NOT
BAM AD DECODER
50 YEARS OF COCA COLA ADS

40. FILM LITERACY - THE POWER OF MOVING IMAGE IN THE
CLASSROOM
MOVING IMAGE EDUCATION
LANGUAGE OF FILM
MEDIA LITERACY CLEARINGHOUSE FILM LINKS
WEB ENGLISH TEACHER FILM LITERACY
HARNESSING THE POWER OF FILM IN THE CLASSROOM
A TEACHING GUIDE TO FILM AND TV
MEDIA ED
FILM EDUCATION
BFI EDUCATION RESOURCES
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION
FILM TEACHING RESOURCES
ELEMENTS OF CINEMA
TEN TOOLS FOR READING FILM
STORYBOARD GENERATOR
THE STORY OF MOVIES
7 TEACHING RESOURCES ON FILM LITERACY
FILM STREET

41. FIVE INSTRUCTIONAL PRINCIPLES OF FILM STUDY
IN THE CLASSROOM
1- The Language of Film (cameras, lights, sound,
casting, sound effects, costumes...)
2- The Critical Role of Screenwriting
3- The Transition from Passive to
Active Viewer
4- A Knowledge of the Rules of
Filmmaking
5- The Use of a Popular Film for the
First Experience

45. DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Allowing learners to shape the narrative themselves is a
particularly good way of enabling them to pull what they need
from the learning experience.
THE TOMORROW TOOLKIT
64 SITES FOR DIGITAL STORYTELLING
40+ RESOURCES FOR ANIMATION AND COMICS
50 ANIMATION TOOLS AND RESOURCES
RESOURCES ON REPRESENTING

46. STRATEGIES FOR USING COMICS IN THE CLASSROOM
COMIC RESOURCES AND TOOLS FOR TEACHING WRITING
20 WAYS TO ENGAGE LEARNERS WITH COMICS
COMIC LIFE AT A GLANCE

47. PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH AUTHENTIC
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

48. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE TOOLS! IT’S ABOUT THE
SKILLS!
STORYBOOK CREATION TOOLS AND APPS DIGITAL PLAY
STORYTELLING APPS VIA LANGWITCHES TL GUIDES
IMAGE CREDIT: Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano

49. DIGITAL STORYTELLING PROCESS
DIGITAL STORYTELLING WEB TOOLS

50. BOOK TRAILERS
DIGITAL BOOKTALKS

51. INANIMATE ALICE
http://www.inanimatealice.com/index.html
Music plays ... Images float by ... Text rolls across the screen...
Inspire students to create their own digital storytelling projects as a way to
continue Alice’s adventures using digital, media and visual literacy skills. Have
them use critical literacy to deconstruct and reconstruct Alice’s story into
something entirely new.

52. http://www.rockfordsrockopera.com/home/

53. WHEN STUDENTS ARE GIVEN A GLOBAL AUDIENCE, THEY TAKE
MORE RESPONSIBILITY FOR QUALITY
#comments4kids

54. BEING ABLE TO READ AND EXPRESS YOURSELF IN A DIGITAL WORLD IS AN
IMPORTANT PART OF BEING LITERATE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Blogging is a way of linking writing, reading,
connecting information and learning together.

55. «BLOGGING GIVES EVEN THE QUIETEST STUDENT A GLOBAL VOICE»
CYBRARYMAN
Image credit: John Atkinson, Wrong Hands

56. STUDENTS USE BLOGS
• To write book reviews
• To write journal entries
• To ask or answer questions
• To do research about a topic
• To respond to pictures, videos or articles they
themselves or their teachers have posted on the blog
• To reflect on their own and their peers’ work
• To post their work like videos, Glogs, Wordles
• To work collaboratively with their peers all around the
world on global projects

57. BLOGGING INVOLVES A WIDE ARRAY OF SKILLS
• Collaboration
• Presentation
• Communication
• Media literacy
• Technology concepts
• Typing
• Writing
• Hyperlinking
• Networking
• Information literacy
• Digital citizenship
• Reflection
• Publishing
• Organization
• Global awareness
• Reading
• Commenting
• Critical Thinking

58. IMAGE CREDIT The Bounce Blog
BLOGGING AS WRITING CURRICULUM
BLOGGING FOR KIDS
CLASSROOM BLOGS
WHAT’S GOING ON IN MR. SOLARZ’ CLASS?
BLOGGING IN THE CLASSROOM WIKI
TED İSTANBUL 6th GRADE BLOG
TED İSTANBUL 10th GRADE BLOG
TED İSTANBUL 11th GRADE BLOG

59. GLOBAL LITERACY
In order to engage fully in social networks, gain
employment in post-industrial knowledge economies,
and assume roles as global citizens who are comfortable
with negotiating intercultural differences, our students
need full mastery of 21st century literacies.

60. The globalized world today needs globally competent students who are able to understand and thrive
in the contemporary society where cultures, economies and people are continuously connected
TEACHERS’ GUIDE TO CREATING A CONNECTED CLASSROOM
Invite authors, experts, and special guest speakers to your classroom via Skype.

61. INTERNATIONAL COOKBOOK PROJECT

62. Turkish Recipes
Prepared by students from
Grade 6
TED ISTANBUL FOUNDATION SCHOOLS
TURKEY

63. Grade 6 students 

64. Grade 6 students 

65. DEN VOICES CONNECT-AGENTS OF CHANGE
http://www.denvoicesconnect.com/

66. ADOPT A DRIFTER PROGRAM
http://www.adp.noaa.gov/

67. THE GLOBAL READ ALOUD
http://www.globalreadaloud.com/

68. GLOBAL VIRTUAL CLASSROOM
http://www.virtualclassroom.org/contest.html

69. COOL WEB TOOLS ON SCOOP IT

70. PINTEREST

71. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!
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