Are the so called 21st century buzz words a cliche or yet another fad? Or are we in the middle of a learning revolution? We are into the second decade of this “21st century” that seems to be part of labels for everything in education these days. What does it mean to be literate in 2014? What will being educated mean for the class of 2027? Is traditional reading and writing enough? Let’s look at some of these terms, their implication for our schools, and examples of educators who have embraced “new forms” of teaching and learning. Learn how you can look past the semantics and work towards preparing your teachers and students for a changed world.

1. Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano - @langwitches
Skills
Modern21stCentury
Literacies
FLuencies

2. Standing on the Shoulders of
Giants
Network

3. Skills
Modern
communicate
connect create
collaborate
critical thinking

4. Literacies
connect
collaboratebasic information citizenship
media
M o d e r n
global network

5. Fluencies
P e o p l e w h o s p e a k a c o m m o n l a n g u a g e a r e
c o n n e c t e d i n m o r e w a y s t h a n
u n d e r s t a n d i n g t h e w o r d s t h a t m a k e i t u p .

6. Speaking Up and Down Vs. Sideways

7. I don’t translate,
nor wonder what comes
first...the verb or the
noun?
I know how to
respond to
something
unexpected.
I am
comfortable
and not
terrified.
I
can relate,
communicate and
connect with
others.
I know that a
language is the sum of
words, common history
and traditions.
It feels
intuitive,
unconscious and
smooth.
Language Fluency

8. Being Skilled
Being Literate
Being Fluent

9. #AASA14

12. Fluency
Digital
The Bridge from Decoding to
Automatic Comprehension
Knowing what Tool to use and When
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29233640@N07/3481528155/
Overwhelmed?

13. World
What Kind of
do we Live in?

14. DigitalWorld

15. “We will stop printing
the New York Times
sometime in the future,
date TBD."Arthur Sulzberger Jr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdewey/3374674246

16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/selago/36041147
!
2012:
After 244 Years,
Encyclopedia Britannica
Stops the Presses

17. More eBooks soldTrend

18. Digital Footprint
before Birth

19. Swiping
Generation

20. Choices
Who do We go to for
Information?

21. Where do We Learn?
Choices

22. How Much will it Cost?

23. Sharing& Remixing
arepartoftheProcess

24. ReadingHabits

25. http://www.flickr.com/photos/69805768@N00/3292899689/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyjcase/3011595479/
What About Privacy?

26. Instant Connectedness

27. ExponentialTimes

28. Abundance

29. The Conversation Happens
online

30. Stephen Duncombe
We live in a
world where
people can
Books
talk backto their
“

31. Today Yesterday
Easily copied
Making copies takes time,
effort and money
Instantly Shared Sharing is complicated
Easily Edited Edits are cumbersome
Worldwide Audience Audience of One
adapted from: http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/digital-citizenship-symposium

32. Our World“It” is not changing back

33. The “Leave it to Beaver”
Days are Gone...

34. Fluency
Digital
The Bridge from Decoding to
Automatic Comprehension
Knowing what Tool to use and When
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29233640@N07/3481528155/
Overwhelmed?

35. BiggerPicture
The

36. Let’s Talk about
not technology
Learning
Being Skilled
Being Literate
Being Fluent

37. What is the
Point?

38. “What Year
are you preparing
your students for?”
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Discuss...

39. illiterate
the man who can’t read;
how to learn
will
not be
Tomorrow’s
He will be
the Man
who has
not learned
HEbert Gerjuoy

40. LiterateAs a VerB: educated, being able to read & write
As a Noun: Having knowledge or competence

41. Is Traditional
LiteracyCritical
Reading & Writing
Enough?

42. AreTraditionalNotions
of Literacy
sufficient
for a 21st Century
Modern
Education? Discuss...

43. DigitalLYLiterate? Discuss...
What
does
it mean
to be

44. Digital Fluent?
What is our Personal Responsibility
to be
Discuss...

45. ,
Eric Shinseki
even less
irrelevance
you are going to like
If you don’t like
change
http://www.flickr.com/photos/practicalowl/6229907202/

46. The changewe are in the
middle of isn’t minorand it
isn’t optionalClay Shirky
Discuss...

47. Shift is a Process,
not a Program

48. ChangeisHappeningFaster
thaneverbefore

49. How does this impact your own
Learning ? Discuss...Ignacio Leonardi- ignacioleonardi.com.ar

50. You First
based on Steve Hargadon

51. Let’s Talk About
Learningand a little bit about technology...

52. http://anne.teachesme.com/2007/01/17/rationale-for-educational-blogging/
Ann Davis
digital spaces”
“
transferring
It is
notJust a Matter of
classroom writing into
http://www.flickr.com/photos/axeldeviaje/312166488/

53. “It’s not about the tool..
...the tool is just
the Trojan Horse” Kevin Honeycutt

54. It is not knowing about this tool or that tool
The
Full of
Ready to meet
a specific Task
that you
have a
thing Is
important
opportunities
toolbox
Michael Fisher

55. Digital Fluency
“read”
capture
evaluate curate
create
effortlessly
unconsciously
savelearn reflect share
manage
amplify
disseminateconnect communicate
collaborate
publish

56. Fluent Reading ?

57. Fluent Reading ?

58. ReconsiderHow we think about
Reading&Writing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swamibu/2868288357/

59. Reading & Writing

60. happens...

61. Reading http://www.flickr.com/photos/snorpey/3317497657/

62. Writing

63. FutureThe
is
Reading
of
Writing
And
Collaborative

64. Literacyhas always been defined by
Technology
Nichole Pinkard

65. We have to continually be jumping
off
Wings
Kurt Vonnegut
on the way down.
Cliffsand developing our
“
”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccheviron/3603396672

66. Cultural Changes

67. http://www.naafoundation.org/Research/Youth-Media-Consumption.aspx
Fittingintotheirlives
Gap
Widening
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fkehren/312080587

68. Participatory

69. @sixwordstories

70. http://tinyurl.com/sixwordsnow
Snow in Argentina Amazes Florida GirlsCollaborative six Word StoryBook About Snow

71. Twitter StoriesCollaborative

72. Peer Editing
Google DocsCollaborativeNoteTaking

73. WikisCollaborative Writing

74. RSSPersonalized Reading

75. CrowdSourcing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810

76. MovingBeyondPrintedText

77. http://anne.teachesme.com/2007/01/17/rationale-for-educational-blogging/
Ann Davis
digital spaces”
“
transferring
It is
notJust a Matter of
classroom writing into
http://www.flickr.com/photos/axeldeviaje/312166488/

78. Social Process
Reading & WRiting as a

79. Mean?
What does this all

80. toofast
Change Happens

81. Traditional Reading & Writing
Question
Ihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/26341920@N03/3017836276/Image used with permission from Jan (lifeimages04)

82. Quality

83. Experience

84. Learning Curve
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beth19/4721798240/

85. Global Connectedness
http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/08/08/the-next-step-amplification-amplify/
Authentic Assessment
http://www.flickr.com/photos/larimdame/2575986601/
Amplification
Comments
Curation
Remix by others

86. Reading
Annotating
Sharing

87. publishing
creating

88. Writing: to be read

89. DevelopAuthentic Learning &
Assessment
opportunities

90. Classroom
How does this look like in the
?

91. hyperlinked
http://langwitches.org/blog/2012/04/03/hyperlinked-writing-in-the-classroom/
Writing
multimedia
reflective
expecting a conversation
Supportive
connected

92. Tweeting

93. Classroomin TheTwitter
http://langwitches.org/blog/2012/09/19/twitter-hots-establishing-a-twitter-routine-in-the-classroom/

94. CSI- Twitter

95. Mentors on Twitter

96. Current Events

97. Explorers21st Century

98. in all Shapes & Sizes
Information

99. Blogfolios

100. Blogging

101. Bring in an Expert

102. & Learnflow
Workflow

103. Real World Work

104. Infographics

105. Explaining M
ath
Concepts

106. choose media
import
create
save
learn
publish reflect disseminate

107. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMea7u0eXJA
document
reflect
save manage
demonstrate

108. document
connect
network share
listen

109. Langwitches.org/blog
SilviaRosenthal
Tolisano