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Integrating Technology with Common Core
This document discusses the importance of eliteracy as a crucial component of modern literacy education. It defines traditional literacy as involving reading, writing, viewing, listening, speaking, understanding and interpreting visuals. It notes that the Common Core Standards emphasize having students read more challenging texts, build vocabulary, and communicate and collaborate online. The document provides examples of digital tools that can help develop eliteracy skills, such as blogs, wikis, VoiceThread for multimedia presentations, Animoto for digital stories, and Big Huge Labs for additional visualization options. It emphasizes using technology to enhance and expand traditional literacy in the modern classroom.
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- 1. Eliteracy : ACrucial Component of Today’s Integrated Literacy Model Meg Griffin NBCT PAWLP Fellow Fourth Grade Teacher CBSD mgriffin@cbsd.org www.mgriffin.wikispaces.com
- 2. Shared Google Document goo.gl/LVIbUc URLshortener Goo.gl
- 3. What level oftechnology do you regularly use in your instruction? 1) Standard educational methods, no technology 2) Automated presentations used, online curriculum presentations, etc. 3) Student work is published 4) Students collaborate with other students online 5) Students participate in global online projects
- 4. Traditional Literacy Is…… •"... the integration of listening, speaking, reading, writing and critical thinking. • It includes a cultural knowledge which enables a speaker, writer or reader to recognize and use language appropriate to different social situations. The National Secretariat for the International Year of Literacy, 1990.
- 5. Traditional Literacy Is…… •... the making of meaning and its clear communication to others. • Truly literate people not only read and write, but regularly do so in order to sort out their ideas • Truly literate people are thinkers and learners." Brown & Mathie, 1990
- 6. Traditional Literacy Is…… •"... the foundation of effective citizenship, human communication and social integration in a literate society. • Literacy is the foundation of learning in all areas of the curriculum." Holdaway, 1979
- 7. Traditional Literacy Is…… •Reading • Writing • Viewing • Listening • Speaking • Understanding • The online environment is increasingly a visual environment • Interpretation of visuals is the most subjective
- 8. Common Core Standards& Literacy THREE MAJOR changes 1) Students will read more texts that provide facts and background knowledge 2)Students will read more challenging texts 3) There will be an increased emphasis on building vocabulary
- 9. Key Phrases fromCommon Core Standards • Communicate and collaborate • Research, read, and reflect • Research to build knowledge, to present • Take notes and summarize information • Vocabulary acquisition
- 10. Where do wego from here? How will these changes look in the classroom? * Research papers, opinion papers * note taking and organizing information * creating and analyzing charts, graphs, timelines, and diagrams * discussion, collaborations and presentation
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- 12. Communicate and Collaborate •Blogs classblogmeister, edublogs • Wikispaces • Skype mgriffin • Google docs • Documents, forms, surveys, presentations
- 13. Presentation Options • Voicethread •Animoto • Word Clouds • Big Huge Labs
- 14. VoiceThread • create aninteractive slideshow using pictures, videos, documents, or even Powerpoint presentations. • You or your students can record video/audio • publish a class poetry book, create informational texts, and publish interactive writing about a class field trip
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- 16. Animoto For Education •Animoto is a wonderful tool for students because it allows them to focus on content creation rather than trying to learn an editing or manipulation tool. • create booktrailers, digital stories or music videos.
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- 18. Wordle • Great forbrainstorming and as a reflection tool at the end of a lesson, unit.etc.
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- 20. Windows Moviemaker • Usephotos and sound (music or voice) to create a movie.
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- 23. Adding Visualization toTraditional Literacy of * Reading *Writing *Speaking *Listening
- 24. Where to FindImages • Google Images • FLICKR • Digital Cameras • Cell Phones
- 25. FLICKR • Spell withFLICKR • Tags • 6 word stories
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- 27. Meg Griffin mgriffin@cbsd.org Classwebsite http://www.cbsd.org//Domain/746 Previous class website www.griffingazette.wikispaces.com Professional website www.mgriffin.wikispaces.com Class Blog http://goo.gl/sTwxmE Twitter @megbg76