integrating technology with common core

Eliteracy : A Crucial Component of Today’s Integrated Literacy Model

Meg Griffin NBCTPAWLP FellowFourth Grade Teacher CBSDmgriffin@cbsd.org www.mgriffin.wikispaces.com

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What level of technology do you regularly use in your instruction?

1) Standard educational methods, no technology2) Automated presentations used, online

curriculum presentations, etc.3) Student work is published4) Students collaborate with other students

online5) Students participate in global online projects

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.

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

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

Traditional Literacy Is……

• Reading• Writing• Viewing• Listening• Speaking• Understanding

• The online environment is increasingly a visual environment• Interpretation of visuals is the most subjective

Common Core Standards & Literacy

THREE MAJOR changes1) 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

Key Phrases from Common Core Standards

• Communicate and collaborate

• Research, read, and reflect

• Research to build knowledge, to present

• Take notes and summarize information

• Vocabulary acquisition

Where do we go 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

Spelling City

Tagxedo

Free Rice

Quizlet

Visuwords

Vocabulary Acquisition

Communicate and Collaborate

• Blogs classblogmeister, edublogs

• Wikispaces

• Skype mgriffin

• Google docs• Documents, forms, surveys, presentations

Presentation Options

• Voicethread

• Animoto

• Word Clouds

• Big Huge Labs

VoiceThread

• create an interactive 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

Sample VoiceThread

• https://voicethread.com/share/4920120/

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.

http://goo.gl/UZem9J

Wordle

• Great for brainstorming and as a reflection tool at the end of a lesson, unit.etc.

www.wordle.net

Windows Moviemaker

• Use photos and sound (music or voice) to create a movie.

Windows Photostory

BigHugeLabsBigHugeLabs.com

Adding Visualization to Traditional Literacy of

* Reading*Writing

*Speaking *Listening

Where to Find Images

• Google Images• FLICKR• Digital Cameras• Cell Phones

FLICKR

• Spell with FLICKR• Tags• 6 word stories

Google Images

Meg Griffin mgriffin@cbsd.org

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