21st century literacies: the challenge and the opportunity as little as we know about the future for...
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21st Century Literacies: The Challenge and The Opportunity
21st Century Literacies: The Challenge and The Opportunity
As little as we know about the future for which we are preparing our students, it is clear that it will be a place that is governed by information. Accessing, processing, building with, and communicating that information is how we will all make our livings.
Being literate in this future will certainly involve the ability to read, write, and do basic math. However, the concept of literacy in the 21st century will be far richer and more comprehensive than the 3 Rs of the one room school house, a legacy that still strongly influences today's education environment.
-David Warlick
As little as we know about the future for which we are preparing our students, it is clear that it will be a place that is governed by information. Accessing, processing, building with, and communicating that information is how we will all make our livings.
Being literate in this future will certainly involve the ability to read, write, and do basic math. However, the concept of literacy in the 21st century will be far richer and more comprehensive than the 3 Rs of the one room school house, a legacy that still strongly influences today's education environment.
-David Warlick
The World is Changing
The World is Changing
The World is Changing
The World is Changing
At a rate that is unprecedented!
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that
today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that
today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs
by age 38!by age 38!
According to former Secretary of Education
Richard Riley . . .
According to former Secretary of Education
Richard Riley . . .
The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 will be jobs that didn’t exist in 2004.
The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 will be jobs that didn’t exist in 2004.
We are:We are:
currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .
that will require technologies not yet invented . . .
in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.
currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .
that will require technologies not yet invented . . .
in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.
What will our students need to operate effectively in 2036?
What will our students need to operate effectively in 2036?
Literacy is changingLiteracy is changing
The ways we access information have changed.
Huge volumes of information are at our fingertips
We need to be able to find appropriate information
We need to judge its credibility.
The ways we access information have changed.
Huge volumes of information are at our fingertips
We need to be able to find appropriate information
We need to judge its credibility.
Literacy is ChangingLiteracy is Changing
See a movie!
Web 2.0Web 2.0
It is now as easy to publish information to the Web as it is to send an email
We are in the era of: Blogs Social bookmarking Social networking Media communities Wikis Podcasts
It is now as easy to publish information to the Web as it is to send an email
We are in the era of: Blogs Social bookmarking Social networking Media communities Wikis Podcasts
Welcome the age of Web 2.0 The read-write web!
Most middle school students know what these are.
Do we?
How does this affect teaching and learning?
How does this affect teaching and learning?
Students will need to use these tools, in fact many already are.
The tools offer unprecedented opportunities for communication, authentic audiences, and engagement.
We need to model; without models the digital natives are digital orphans.
Students will need to use these tools, in fact many already are.
The tools offer unprecedented opportunities for communication, authentic audiences, and engagement.
We need to model; without models the digital natives are digital orphans.
Teaching New Literacies is EssentialTeaching New Literacies is Essential
Essential for the world of work Essential for the development of an
informed, reflective and active citizenry in a democracy
Essential in extending the joy of learning into a lifelong experience
Essential for the world of work Essential for the development of an
informed, reflective and active citizenry in a democracy
Essential in extending the joy of learning into a lifelong experience
While much is changing, much of what constitutes great
teaching remains the same.
While much is changing, much of what constitutes great
teaching remains the same.
We need to engage students. We need to teach them to
comprehend and think critically. We need to help them to be effective
communicators. We need to teach and support them
to be ethical.
We need to engage students. We need to teach them to
comprehend and think critically. We need to help them to be effective
communicators. We need to teach and support them
to be ethical.
Bloom’s Taxonomy Higher Level Thinking
Evaluation: Make recommendations, assess value and make choices, critique ideas
Synthesis: Discuss “what if” situations, create new ideas, predict and draw conclusions
Analysis: Recognize patterns and meaning, see parts and whole
Application:Use information in new situation, solve problems
Comprehension:Finding meaning,compare, restate,summarize
Knowledge: dates,events, places,vocabulary, key ideas
But while great teaching remains the same …
But while great teaching remains the same …
The tools have changed. Issues of equity have
changed with the tools. New opportunities carry
new risks of inequity.
The tools have changed. Issues of equity have
changed with the tools. New opportunities carry
new risks of inequity.
Many schools and teachers have not yet recognized—much less responded to—the new ways students communicate and access information over the Internet. Students report that there is a substantial disconnect between how they use the Internet for school and how they use the Internet during the school day and under teacher direction. For the most part, students’ educational use of the Internet occurs outside of the school day, outside of the school building, outside the direction of their teachers. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Schools_Internet_Report.pdf
Many schools and teachers have not yet recognized—much less responded to—the new ways students communicate and access information over the Internet. Students report that there is a substantial disconnect between how they use the Internet for school and how they use the Internet during the school day and under teacher direction. For the most part, students’ educational use of the Internet occurs outside of the school day, outside of the school building, outside the direction of their teachers. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Schools_Internet_Report.pdf
The Internet and School
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What are we doing to prepare students for their
future?What more can we do?
What are we doing to prepare students for their
future?What more can we do?
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