Literacy

=Introduction=

What is LITERACY? What makes someone ILLITERATE by today's standards? Has the definition of LITERACY changed in the past 10 years? Let's define LITERACY . ..
=== //"literacy is the ability to encode and decode meaning in any of the forms used in cultures to represent meaning" - Eisner//   ===

=== After viewing the video, think-pair-share with a partner, then, post your thoughts on the new literacies presented in the video on the Edutopia blog, located at http://www.edutopia.org/media-literacy-skills-video.===

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How have learning expectations or objectives been adapted as a result of the new literacies?


=YES, Virginia. . . There are technology standards! =

//  —Don Knezek, ISTE CEO, 2007   // ||
 * Leadership in technology is best illustrated by ISTE's creation of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), first published in 1998. ISTE is now leading the creation of the next generation of NETS. In 1998, it was enough to define what students needed to know about and be able to do with technology. Now, we're defining what students need to know and be able to do with technology to learn effectively and live productively in a rapidly changing digital world.

http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/NETS-S_2007_Student_Profiles.pdf
 * Profiles for Technology Literate Students** in //Grades 6-8// are found on page 4 of the following document:

What do our schools have to support these literacies?

[|Resources for3D Literacy.ppt]



=**Visual Literacies **=



Three short BURMARK video clips on Visual Literacy
 * Introduction (1:06 to 3:41)
 * Research on Images (12:40 to 18:40)
 * Using Multimedia (22:05 to 23:04)

//These segments are from a Canter & Associates video for the Masters in Instructional Technology program at Walden University.// **If you could use one image to define you, your class, or a specific unit, what would it be?** Connecting images to information aids student learning. Look through some of these resources to find a "defining image" for one of your classes that you can use this year. PicSearch [|http://www.picsearch.com] Flickr [|http://www.flickr.com] DK clipart http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/cs/uk/11/clipart/home.html Google Images [|http://images.google.com] Pics for Learning: http://pics4learning.com/ Freefoto.com: http://freefoto.com/index.jsp Morgue File: [|www.morguefile.com]  Flickr : [|www.flickr.com] Commons project: http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Astronomy Pic of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Web Museum, painters: <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery: <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.npg.si.edu/ <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Digital Librarian – best of the Web: <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.digital-librarian.com/images.html <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Art Images for College Teaching: <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berkeley Digital Library Project: <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/ <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUBL Information Services – Image Collections: <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://bubl.ac.uk/link/types/images.htm <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New York Public Library Web Gallery: <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/ <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U.S. National Archives & Records Administration: [|http://www.archives.gov/index.html</span]> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Archives: [|http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/home.html</span]> National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration: [|www.photolib.noaa.gov/collections.html] National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Multimedia: <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[|www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html] <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[|www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/indix.html] American Memory Project: [|http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/</span]> Civil War Photos: [|http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html</span]> American Indians Pacific Northwest: [|http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/wauhtml/aipnhome.html</span]> Garst Photographic Collection: [|http://lib.colostate.edu/wildlife</span]> Cybrary of the Holocaust: [|http://www.remember.org/</span]> The Natural Child Project: [|http://naturalchild.org/gallery</span]> Kidspace Comic Strips & Funny Pages: [|http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/browse/fun5000/</span]> Calvin and Hobbes (comics): [|http://www.ucomics.com/calvinandhobbes/</span]> The Official Peanuts Web Site: http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/

[|Reveal Game Ex.ppt]
 * Using the Reveal Game in your** **classroom . . .**


 * //More from Dr. Burmark//** . . . [|Click here to OPEN and view] the first 10 minutes of a 30 minute FREE streaming preview of a video entitled // Effective Teaching with Classroom Videos. //

<span style="color: #ff0006; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"> =**<span style="color: #ff0006; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Audio Literacies  **=

<span style="color: #003aff; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> "we should be careful about our children learning through a single window, a single point of view. It is critical that we make sure students are learning from a variety of primary source information." - David Thornburg

Podcasting Wiki:

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 * Ever seen this icon on the Internet?** What is it and what can it do for you?//

What is RSS, anyway?

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<span style="color: #ff0006; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"> =<span style="color: #ff0006; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Collaboration = =<span style="color: #ff0006; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"> = <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> // Edutopia: A Product of Learning: Representing Their Work Through Tech // =<span style="color: #ff0006; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="1156801" = = =

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The following link gives an overview of getting started and setting up an account (//if you don't already have one//) so you can begin using GoogleDocs as well as many other Google products. . . [|Tour of Google Docs] (//For ambitious starters or intermediate to advanced GCal users, check out the link that follows for ideas on how to "**Rock Your Google Calendar"**// [|Tips for Google Calendar])

**Compare and contrast Google Docs vs. wiki** Google maps: [|Activity with Google Maps],[|101 Things to Do with Google Maps] Creating a Google Map activity by learning to [|Edit a Google Map] [|Earthquakes] around the World

What are some of the benefits of real-time collaboration?
 * From **teacher** to **teacher**?
 * From **teacher** to **student**?
 * From **student** to **student**?

media type="custom" key="1358069" **from DAVID THORNBURG. . .** media type="custom" key="1165831"

Our challenge is to address the global information infrastructure needs in ways that touch anyone wishing to develop skills at any age. This means that we must work to insure that every school, every library, every meeting place in every corner of the world has access to the informational tools of the next century. **The key to peace, economic growth, and the preservation of the planet, is an educated populace.** This does not mean that technology can do the job alone. Well-prepared teachers are needed to guide all learners as they come to master the tools of this new age. **If we provide technology without meaningful staff development, we will have wasted our money.**

The American poetess, Edna St. Vincent Millay, once wrote: //Upon this gifted age,// //In its darkest hour,// //Rains from the sky// //A meteoric shower of facts.// //They lie unquestioned,// //Uncombined.// //Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill// //Is daily spun,// //Yet there exists no loom// //To weave it into fabric.// When these lines were written the computer had not yet been invented. Today the looms exist — they are the powerful computers we can provide our students. The fabric exists as well — we call it the Web. The question remains as to what we will have our students make from this fabric. I believe **the role of educators in this new age is to help students make magic carpets — magic carpets of the mind with which they can explore the infinite world of ideas at the speed of thought.**

Thornburg, D. 1996. //Technologies of Liberation//. Retreived July 28, 2008 from http://www.tcpd.org/Thornburg/Handouts/techlib.pdf