literarcy in a connected world
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Literacy in a Connected World
Meenoo Rami
Stay In TouchO Teach my students English at Science
Leadership Academy in PhillyO Started #engchat in 2010O www.engchat.orgO @meenooramiO [email protected] www.linkedin.com/in/meenooramiO National Board Certified TeacherO Thrive – to be published by Heinemann in
2014
GoalsOExpand definition of
reading/writing in our classrooms
OWays to engage students in authentic reading/writing
OUsing connections to share work with wider audience
This MomentO 96% agree digital technologies
“allow students to share their work with a wider and more varied audience”
O 79% agree that these tools “encourage greater collaboration among students”
Source: Pew Internet Study – The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing, July 16, 2013
So What?
From NCTEO Develop proficiency with the tools of technologyO Build relationships with others to pose and solve
problems collaboratively and cross-culturallyO Design and share information for global
communities to meet a variety of purposesO Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple
streams of simultaneous informationO Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-
media textsO Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by
these complex environments
Science Leadership AcademyClass of 2015
ReadingO Newspapers (Snow Fall – John
Branch, NYTimes)O Blogs – based on students’ interestsO Videos – TED talks, Big Think,
Vlogbrothers O RSA AnimateO Authors from your community or
across the world via SkypeO Documentaries – PBS, HBO, POV
WritingO BlogsO PodcastsO TrailersO Short Films/DocumentariesO Photo EssaysO Multigenre Research ProjectsO 6 words stories via TwitterO Presentations/Skits/Performance
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ChecklistO Know your studentsO Know their interestsO Create reading/writing opportunities
that bring their interests + skills you want to teach together
O Use your connections to give them wider audience
You as the lead learnerO Where does your reading and writing
life live?O How well do your students know you
as a reader and a writer?O Write with your studentsO Share the things that challenge you
about the things you read and write
ResourcesO Crafting Digital Writing – Troy HicksO http://digitalis.nwp.org/ - Digital IsO http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/ -
NYTimes Learning BlogO www.engchat.org - Weekly Twitter
Chat for English Teachers – Mondays at 7 PM ET.
If you can leave with…O Focus on the students, not the toolsO Tools may make composing and
publishing may make it easier but reading/writing is still a complex process
O You teach even more by modeling your reading/writing life
Stay In TouchO Teach my students English at Science
Leadership Academy in PhillyO Started #engchat in 2010O www.engchat.orgO @meenooramiO [email protected] www.linkedin.com/in/meenooramiO National Board Certified TeacherO Thrive – first book to be published by
Heinemann in 2014