integrating technology with common core
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Bucks County IU March 29, 2014TRANSCRIPT
Eliteracy : A Crucial Component of Today’s Integrated Literacy Model
Meg Griffin NBCTPAWLP FellowFourth Grade Teacher [email protected] 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
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
Adding Visualization to Traditional Literacy of
* Reading*Writing
*Speaking *Listening
Where to Find Images
• Google Images• FLICKR• Digital Cameras• Cell Phones
Meg Griffin [email protected]
Class website http://www.cbsd.org//Domain/746
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