The document discusses how new literacies and technology skills are important for students to develop in order to meet Common Core State Standards and be prepared for college. It provides examples of curriculum and lessons that help students improve their online research, organization, and evaluation abilities. While students are using technology more, they need guidance to learn how to effectively and ethically use the internet for academic purposes. The examples shown integrate literacy, research skills, and various subjects like science and art.
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2. Presentation Highlights
1. New Literacies
2. Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Technology
3. Preparing Students for College
4. CCSS Curriculum Flexibility
5. Curriculum Examples
a. Data Overload - Establish Online Organizational Skills
b. Online Research and the Transition to High School
c. Intersection of Science/Art and Technology
d. Science Project
5. New Literacies
● Broad literacy pattern
development
● Internet as a key technology for
learning
● Multimodal information delivery
6. ORCA - New Literacies
Online
Reading
Comprehension
Assessments
Reading to Locate
Reading to Evaluate
Reading to Synthesize
Reading and Writing to
Communicate
Aligns with Common Core State Standards
8. CCSS & New Literacies
Participate in Structure Conversations
Make Comparisons & Contrasts
9. CCSS & New Literacies
Analyze and Synthesize Multiple Inputs
10. CCSS - Missing an ‘online’
focus
Word frequency in CCSS English Language Arts
Information 247
Reading 189
Research 80
Technology 24
Internet 14 ( in Writing only )
11. CCSS Tech For Elementary School
Grade 3 Standards
With guidance and support from adults, use
technology to produce and
publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as
well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Grade 4-5 Standards
With some guidance and support from adults, use
technology, including the Internet, to
produce and publish writing
as well as to interact and
collaborate with others; demonstrate
sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a
minimum of one page in a single sitting.
12. CCSS Tech For Middle School
Grade 6 Standards
Use technology, including the Internet, to
produce and publish writing
as well as to interact and collaborate with others;
demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding
skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single
sitting.
Grade 7-8 Standards
Use technology, including the Internet, to
produce and publish writing
and link to and cite sources as well as to
interact and collaborate with
others, including linking to and citing
sources.
13. CCSS Tech For High School
Grade 9-10 Standards
Use technology, including the Internet, to
produce, publish, and update
individual or shared writing
products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity
to link to other information and
to display information flexibly and
dynamically.
Grade 11-12 Standards
Use technology, including the Internet, to
produce, publish, and update
individual or shared writing
products in response to ongoing feedback,
including new arguments or
information.
14. CCSS & Internet Standards
Production and
Distribution of Writing
Research to Build and
Present Knowledge
K-5 and 6-12 Standards
15. CCSS - Research Standards
CC.11-12.W.8 Research to Build and Present Knowledge
● Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital
sources
● Use advanced searches effectively
● Assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the task,
purpose, and audience
● Integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas,
avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source and following a
standard format for citation.
16. Other Supporting Research
Standards
AASL Learning Standard: 1.1.5
Evaluate information found in selected sources on
the basis of accuracy, validity, appropriateness to
needs, importance, and social and cultural context.
17. Other Supporting Research
Standards
ISTE Standards for Students: 3
Research and Information Fluency
● Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use
information.
● Plan strategies to guide inquiry
● Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use
information from a variety of sources and media
● Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based
on the appropriateness to specific tasks
● Process data and report results
18. Why focus on online research?
In today’s world, technology is more important than ever.
Today’s students
● Use technology daily yet do not know how to use it responsibly
● Often assume anything they read online is true
● Want instant gratification: if the answer is not on the first page of Google,
they are not interested in looking for it
● Need to know how to conduct online research as information is delivered
digitally
19. Online Research Skills Goals
● Use various search tools to meet personal and academic
needs
● Read search results to determine relevant and reliable
information
● Use results to refine a search
● Critically evaluate information
● Determine what information is relevant to the learning task
21. CCSS - College Preparedness
To be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological
society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate,
synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original
research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and
create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media
forms old and new. The need to conduct research and to produce and
consume media is embedded into every aspect of today’s curriculum
http://www.corestandards.org/read-the-standards/
22. CCSS - College Preparedness
College Ready Students:
● Use technology and digital media strategically and capably
● Employ technology thoughtfully to enhance their reading, writing, speaking,
listening, and language use
● Tailor their searches online to acquire useful information efficiently
● Integrate what they learn using technology with what they learn offline
http://www.corestandards.org/read-the-standards/
23. 5 Must-Have Tech Skills for College Students
College Preparedness - It’s Not
Just CCSS
Typing ability
Online etiquette skills
Software suite basics
Online research chops
Privacy and security awareness
http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-admissions-playbook/2014/01/27/5-must-have-tech-
skills-for-college-students
24. Typing
Word processing
Spreadsheets
PowerPoint
E-Mail “netiquette"
College Preparedness - It’s Not
Just CCSS
Electronic calendar
Social networking sites
Basic computer upkeep
Internet searches - research
Database use
The Top 10 Tech Skills Your Teen Needs Now
http://www.education.com/magazine/article/The_Top_10_Tech_Skills_Your_Teen/
26. ● States can agree to adopt the CCSS
● May change 15% of the standards to include
content they deem valuable
○ as long as the states plan to measure the
additional standards (Achieve, 2010).
CCSS - Curriculum Flexibility
27. Literacy & Research Integration
How can teachers integrate CCSS literacy,
New Literacy, and research into their content
areas?
29. Organization 101
● Physical Organization Skills do not equate to Electronic
Organization Skills
● Teach basic skills of Folder Structures and relevant File
Naming
● Ensure comfort with digital abstraction
30. Data Inundation
● Recognize that myriad data sources exist
● Online Research
o Once located information must be collected to be
usable
● Define process alongside students
● Technology is moving us away from printed materials
34. Prepping for the Upper Grades
1. Gather relevant information:
● Create effective searches by identifying KEY WORDS,
synonyms, and descriptors
● Compare results from two different on-line information
sources using different combinations of terms
● Use information and words from the results to add or
substitute search terms
35. Prepping for the Upper Grades
2. Authoritative print and digital sources
● Define “authoritative” and “authority”
● Locate author, publisher, date of publication
● Search for information about an author
● Introduce point of view and bias
36. Prepping for the Upper Grades
3. Advanced searches
● Examine URLs
● Explore search engine and database tools that narrow
and widen searches
● Play with Google’s advanced search
● Introduce ethical and legal image searching
37. Prepping for the Upper Grades
4. Strengths and limitations of sources:
Task, Purpose, & Audience
● Rate how well sources meet your information needs
● Compare/contrast the organization, graphics and text at a
.com site, .org site , and a blog on the same subject
● Analyze & Resolve discrepancies - fact, point of view,
currency, missing or added information
38. Prepping for the Upper Grades
5. Integrate information
● Graphic organizers
● Notes
● Tagging, topics & sub-topics
39. Prepping for the Upper Grades
7. Avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source
● Paraphrase
● Seek multiple sources
40. Prepping for the Upper Grades
8. Citation
● Identify different types of sources - web sites, articles,
blogs, reports, periodicals, reference works
● Images
42. Technology Integration: Science
and Art
9th grade students studying color
perception
● Question: What color is the dress?
“The dress” is a relevant example made possible by
the internet: it was a viral phenomenon
43. Technology Integration: Science
and Art
Technology Integration:
Adobe Photoshop
Students can:
● use Photoshop to look at
the color profile of the dress image
● search for images that are
improperly color balanced
● evaluate the color profile of the image they found
● synthesize the information by using Photoshop to correctly
color balance the image they found
● present their findings to the class
45. Literacy & Research Integration:
Science/Physics Class
● After three marking periods of physics, students have a
basic understanding of many key principles of the topic
of study (Introductory Physics)
● Students are asked to integrate that understanding with
information from additional sources to understand
The Physics of: a topic of importance to them
46. ● Students had a refresher on source reliability from a
librarian, as well as an introduction to databases that
would be helpful for Science research (previously
unencountered in their educational careers)
● Students were introduced to different resources to
evaluate sources, identify & understand complex
information, and create an annotated bibliography
Literacy & Research Integration:
Science/Physics Class
47. How did you choose your topic?
● Students had free rein over their topic of choice as long as it
could be related to our understanding of physics.
● Topics ranged from The Effects of Cell Phone Radiation on
Humans to the Inner Workings of Electric Trains to How to
Touch-Screen Gloves Work?
48. ● Students had access to the UCONN
library online databases through our librarian,
as part of our ECE programs
● Students also had access to iConn,
Connecticut’s Research Engine
● Students may have also
used Google Scholar
How did students find sources?
49. ● Working with our Librarian, students
learned the CRAPP test and how to
apply it to scientific literature. Students
also discussed in class the recent
Biomed Peer-Review Scandal in the
news after reading a topical article.
How did students evaluate sources?
50. Students learned how to read a scientific journal using resources listed
previously and may have performed additional research.
How did students decipher
academic journals?
52. Conclusions
To survive in tomorrow’s world, students need to learn
technological skills in today’s classroom
● 21st century schools need to support emerging technologies
● Teachers will use technology in their classrooms if it is available and they
are trained on how to use it
“Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed,
will revolutionize the way we learn.”
-Steve Jobs
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Editor's Notes
What is meant by the term new literacies? There are 2 ways to understand the term.
lowercase (new literacies)
new literacies permit technologies and unique concepts to evolve while allowing certain research concepts and language to remain constant.
Uppercase (New Literacies)
New Literacies is a broader, more inclusive concept that includes common findings emerging from new literacies
Designed to develop, test, and refine a set of three assessments formats for measuring online reading comprehension.
To become college and career ready, students must have ample opportunities to take part in a variety of rich, structured conversations...They must be able to contribute appropriately to these conversations, to make comparisons and contrasts. They need to be able to both recognize and reconcile different ideas and the ways information is presented to convey meaning.
To become college and career ready, students must have ample opportunities to take part in a variety of rich, structured conversations...They must be able to contribute appropriately to these conversations, to make comparisons and contrasts, and to analyze and synthesize a multitude of ideas
They also must analyze and synthesize these new ideas by making connections to their own background knowledge and their information seeking task. This means being able to combine new and old ideas to build more complex understandings.
New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. The Internet has accelerated the speed at which connections between speaking, listening, reading, and writing can be made, requiring that students be ready to use these modalities nearly simultaneously.
Technology itself is changing quickly, creating a new urgency for students to be adaptable in response to change.
http://www.corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/ELA_Standards.pdf
While the CCSS doesn’t have ‘technology’ or ‘internet’ as a predominant focus it remains critical that our students are introduced to relevant technologies early and taught how to interact with these technologies as individuals and as part of social construction.
What do the CCSS mean by “research”?
American Assoc of School Librarians has written standards that address research skills in an online context.
The International Society for Technology in Education more explicitly addresses the use of digital resources in conducting research.
When we consider the sources of information available to us today it is important to consider research and information literacy as defined by the CCSS, AASL, and ISTE. They each contribute to our understanding and definition of what we want students to know.
The CCSS seek to prepare students for college and careers.
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Note that the CCSS explicitly states that we live in a technological society.
Despite the fact that the CCSS does not explicitly state that use of the Internet is a basic component of the ELA standards (except in writing), schools must acknowledge that Internet use is critical in supporting all the standards. Thankfully there is some flexibility possible in interpretation.
Ensure that the students are given relevant frameworks for organizing information once they have located it.
the ability to organize information is an underdeveloped skill that has to be addressed before any higher level online skills can fully develop.
The challenge is not simply locating and evaluating information, the challenge is efficiently collecting, collating, archiving and retrieving the data when it is necessary.
Online Research Journals, Blogs, Websites, Social Media Feeds, YouTube…
Once located information must be collected to be usable
How can you reference, cite, synthesize if the data isn’t organized once its located?
Define process alongside students
It’s not possible to force a single Methodology on a student, but it is possible to provide tools and allow students to adapt them to their needs
Students use the Internet daily to meet their information needs. However, it is critical to teach and refine the use of the Internet as a tool for learning academic content.
Students need to be able to conduct research by the end of high school, but how do we get there? We begin in elementary and middle school to build the skills necessary to be applied when the information seeking task and authoritative sources become more difficult to locate and understand.
These simple activities can be completed in elementary and middle school classes in any content area when students need to access information. Brainpop, Grolier, and WebPath Express are online resources that can control results according to grade level but allow students to experiment with creating searches.
Younger students need to learn to identify the parts of a resource and read closely. Teachers should routinely include citations for all materials they use and discuss how the information included helps to understand the source. They might discuss how and why they chose the resource modeling the scrutiny necessary when choosing a resource to use and the ethical considerations necessary. They should always note when they are using others’ materials - whether text, images, simulations, charts or graphs - and correctly cite them.
There is life beyond and within the simple Google search. Students can use simple databases to hone their research skills and learn to use Google’s advanced search options.
The key to determining whether a resource meets your needs is being able to identify what you need to know. Different sources display information in different ways and the creator determines what and how they present their information depending on their audience. Students need to compare authors’ choices for what they present.
Students practice finding main and supporting ideas and learn to categorize.
Paraphrasing is a difficult skill to master and with the ability to cut and paste, students need to practice this skill.
When students understand that anyone can publish on the Internet they see the value of confirming claims or verifying facts.
When students create citations they have to find the author, title, publisher, and the date of epublication. This is the first step to gathering the information needed to evaluate their source. Students need to know that Google is not a source - it’s a search engine. They need to know that the Internet can connect them with a variety of sources - web pages but also periodicals, reference works, and blogs. One of the biggest hurdles for students is identifying what type of resource they are using - a necessary skill when evaluating the resources they will be required to use when they are in high school and college.
A special word is necessary on the importance of citing images. It is so easy to simply search for an image and grab it for a presentation that teachers must devote some time to teaching students about copyright and intellectual property. More teachers are assigning multimedia presentations and it is the perfect time to include lessons on media literacy, design, finding and properly citing images found on the Internet.
Corresponds to the key ideas of CCSS & science literacy:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.11-12.1
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to important distinctions the author makes and to any gaps or inconsistencies in the account.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.11-12.2
Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; summarize complex concepts, processes, or information presented in a text by paraphrasing them in simpler but still accurate terms.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.11-12.3
Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks; analyze the specific results based on explanations in the text
Links:
CRAPP test
How to read & understand a scientific paper
annotated bibliography instructions/example
Corresponding to CCSS:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.11-12.7
Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.11-12.8
Evaluate the hypotheses, data, analysis, and conclusions in a science or technical text, verifying the data when possible and corroborating or challenging conclusions with other sources of information.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.11-12.9
Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.