Literacy and digital age...how dod we get here

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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Credib
ility

Volum
e of
informati
on
Issues

Person
alised
Learning

Online
sources
Now

On
Own

Library

Fixed
sources
and
journals
Was
Research

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

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8. Is reading changing?
What does this image show us?
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9. New Media and text
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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

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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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17. Further reading
http://www.gettingintoliteracy.com/
http://www.timrylands.com/
http://www.2epub.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/PerpetualRevision/digital-literacy-in-writinginstruction
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/simple-guide-for-teachers-tocreate.html
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