MS4 level being good citizen -imperative- (1) (1).pdf
Literacy digital age
1. ANALOGUE DIGITAL AND LITERACY
Dan Bowen
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2. 21st century goals
•Reinforce traditional writing skills
•Improve engagement
•Validate multimodal literacy
•Create resilient communicators
•Improve Digital Literacy skills
•Prepare students for future
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3. Literacy - Old, Recent and Next
Access privileged curriculum
Discrete Skill
Print based decoding
National Strategies – Literacy Hour
Formulaic approach – Told what literacy is and
how to teach it.
Diversity of text, many audiences, digital worlds
and social text, multi-literacy, synthesis of text
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5. What you can embed:
•Searching effectively - There is more to Google than meets
the eye (http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=136861&rd=2)
•Synthesis (not copy and paste)
•Sourcing evidence and creative commons
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Temptation
to be
distracted
Shallow
depth and
tendency to
skim
Quick skim
reading
Issues
Interpret
Scan
Synthesise
Multimodal
Share
Collect
Feed
Social
Now
own
On
Learn a skill
by studying
text
Knowledge
acquisition
Limited
quality print
media
Was
Reading
11. iBooks and iBook Author
iBook
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Bad practice
for
examinations
such as text
speak
Legibility of
hand written
text for formal
examinations
Issues
own
On
Some for
global
audiences
commodity
A
cost
Synthesising
reading
To
communicate
with others
Purpose was
– Academic,
Now
professional,
Many
public,
audiences
Electronically
based in most
cases except
school
Blogging
Large
audiences
cost
No
Multimodal
Share
Social
Was
Writing
14. Sites, games and inspiration
www.storybird.com
www.comicmaster.co.uk
http://audioboo.fm/
www.panoramas.dk
http://www.2epub.com/
Listen to a soundtrack and create a storyboard
Watch a video and create a soundtrack
Creating e-books for set topics for wider audience
Google docs to allow students to collaborative in real time
Make a silent film representing a sequence from a set text
Mind mapping tools for first level support
Audiboo for poetry, listening back to radio programmes
IWB to interact with text, phonics and online narrative
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15. Games based literacy
Professor Layton and the curious village
Myst
African Safari
Endless Ocean
–Writing another level
–Describing characters
–Developing landscapes
–Using the games as stimuli
–Challenge progression reward
–Badges system – level up
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16. Next Steps
Pick one research strategy to use in your school
Pick one reading strategy to use in your school
Pick one writing strategy to use in your school
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