21ST CENTURY LITERACY

MARK G. CACCIATOREFORDHAM UNIVERSITY

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

RIP VAN WINKLE

“Rip's story was soon told, for the whole twenty years had been to him but as one night. The neighbors stared when they heard it; some were seen to wink

at each other, and put their tongues in their cheeks.”

?

Imagine, like Rip did, that you fell

asleep for 20 years. You wake up and walk into

a classroom. What does teaching &

learning look like?

21st Century Literacy

Grouping by Ability

Text Books Gone . . .

Problem-Based

Learning

Integration of Tech

THINK-PAIR-SHARE

What literacy skills (reading &

writing) do students need in our Elementary

classrooms?

21ST CENTURY LITERACIES

IRA

P 21

NCTE

21ST CENTURY LITERACY: WHAT IS IT?

21ST CENTURY LITERACIES

NCTE Categories Ideas for Other Classrooms

What I’ve Done . . .

Develop proficiency with the tools of technology

Basic Keyboard commands: Control “F”

Build relationships

Design and share information for global communities

Book Trailers

Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information

Lake of the Woods: Multimedia PowerPoints

Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts

Dr. Faustus

Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

Sexting

NJEA & Governor Christie

21ST CENTURY LITERACY: SOME CLOSURE

Smagorinsky (2001)No educational methodology, innovation, or movement is a panacea.

Lund’s (2006) “Warnings” for EducatorsBUILDING: Educators must know how to respect, build upon, and incorporate students’ Internet-based cultural identities into higher socio-cognitive functioning.

Prensky: Kids are Wired Differently Today!

21st Century LiteracyWake-up, Rip!

References

Lund, A. (2006). The multiple contexts of online language teaching. Language Teaching Research, 10, 181–204.

National Council of Teachers of English (2008) The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies. Urbana, IL. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/21stcentdefinition

Prensky, Marc (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon, 9(5), 1-6.

Smagorinsky, P. (2001). If meaning is constructed, what is it made from? Toward a cultural theory of reading. Review of Educational Research, 71, 133–169.