what is literacy?. session3: 21 st century literacy

Warm-up

What is literacy?

Integrating Technology Into the Curriculum

Session3:21st Century Literacy

Agenda Centering exercise Announcements / reminders Recap: Technology and the self,

technology and society Laws of media 21st century literacy and NETS-S Break Hands-on: Technology tools, more

webquests

The Laws of Media

Every medium:

Extends (Enhances) Overloads (Reverses) Retrieves Obsolesces

McLuhan's Laws of Media

Educational Technology Tetrads

1. Your group will be assigned an educational technology.

2. On the white board, make a square and divide it into four quadrants.

3. For your technology, fill in each quadrant using McLuhan’s “4 Laws” model.

Enhances Reverses

Retrieves Obsolesces

21st Century Literacy

What Does It Mean To Be Literate in the 21st Century?

21st Century LiteracyPaolo Freire and literacy:

Literacy as not just “reading the word”, but “reading the world”

And not just “reading the world”, but “writing the world”

Literacy as a generic term for constructing (or maybe discovering) meaning

NETS-S

1. Creativity and innovation2. Communication and collaboration3. Research and information fluency4. Critical thinking, problem solving

and decision-making5. Digital citizenship6. Technology operations and concepts

Discussion How are the 2007 NETS-S standards

similar to the description of technology literacy in Tech Tonic similar?

How are they different? Which do you prefer?

Break!

Ten minutes please…

Technology practice

Tech Tac Toe Assignment

• Mailmerge

• Google forms

• Presentation programs

Technology practice

Explore webquests

• With the other people at your table, check out some webquests to get a feel for what they look like.

• Find one that you would like to share with the class.