The document discusses the changing nature of literacy and learning in the 21st century. It argues that students must now be able to represent their ideas through various multimedia formats like podcasts, movies and educational games, not just written essays. It also highlights the importance of online collaborative learning projects in building skills like critical thinking, cultural understanding and negotiation. Global projects allow students to "be human together" and learn from each other across cultures and locations.

1. Spheres of Influence Ec+i 831 Computers In The Classroom Feb 12, 2008 Sharon Peters LEARN sharo [email_address] mtl- peters.net/blog

2. “Understand the word, understand the world” understand the world”

3. I conjecture that by 2018, a student will routinely be judged not only by her ability to write a 5-paragraph essay but her ability to represent her ideas via a 5 minute podcast, 2 minute movie, and level in an educational game.

4. “ Teenagers (we) learn through relationship (networks)”

5. “ Creeping Disconnection...” Social Neuroscience

9. To be literate, we must make meaning from all the information that is available to us - multi-modal information audio graphical visual tactile symbolic/representational

10. Rationale : LITERACY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Literacy, simply put, is about meaning-making Quote taken from the Québec Education Program

11. These tools offer affordances for students to making meaning

13. The need to include “visual grammar” into our frameworks of literacy

14. It’s all about AUDIENCE Moist Continental LCC Blogs

16. Let’s Go Global! Online Collaborative Learning Projects Sharon Peters LEARN [email_address] mtl-peters.net/blog

17. Global Projects begin.....

18. ... with Globally-Minded Educators

19. What did this globally-minded student have to say? From a Neveh Channah student after receiving peer review from a student from LCC: "Thank you for taking the time to read my paper. I was touched by your warm words and the gentle criticism. Yes, some of the spelling should be edited and I didn't want to burden the reader with too many details and information....I would love to host you here in Jerusalem and to join you personally on a walking tour through the streets of Nachlaot." "Thank you for taking the time to read my paper. I was touched by your warm words and the gentle criticism. Yes, some of the spelling should be edited and I didn't want to burden the reader with too many details and information....I would love to host you here in Jerusalem and to join you personally on a walking tour through the streets of Nachlaot."

20. These partnerships provide opportunities for students to "be human together" (Siemens)

23. "From all of the work that we have done with other students, I have learned how to look over other people's work and let them edit my own.”

24. “ From working with other students, I also learned how to be patient and not always want things to happen at the exact moment I would like them to, but rather wait and spend more time on something to make it even better." - Matthew, grade 7 - Matthew, grade 7 - Matthew, grade 7 ( Metacognitive skills built )

25. Karen Guth - teacher at Neveh Channah School in Etzion Bloc, Israel:"I would say that this became a project that engaged the minds, skills, and hearts of our students. It turned the English Bagrut project into an international research, writing, thinking, and teaching opportunity."

30. Your Network is Your Filter . (Tapscott) We learn from the company we keep . (Smith)

31. Who is “the company” you keep?

32. What are your spheres of influence?