The marriage between language

and digital literacies in the 21st Century

Richard Brummer 06/29/15

Write down the first word that comes into your head when you hear phrase mobile learning?

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Baule, S. (2015, May-June). Future ready: Are you ready to lead? Library Media Connection, 33(6), 8-9

Evans, J. (2015, May) A vision for mobile learning: More verbs, fewer nouns. Educational Leadership, 72(8), 10-16

Baule, S. (2015, May-June). Future ready: Are you ready to lead? Library Media Connection, 33(6), 8-9

• Over the past few months the US. Department of Education, in conjunction with over 200 superintendents, and overseen by President Barack Obama, have been working on the Future Ready Pledge.

• At its foundation, this pledge is a new initiative to ensure that 99% of students have broadband Internet access and access to the best digital resources

(Here’s where leaders of reading come in)

• Obama - “In a country where we expect free Wi-Fi with our coffee, the least we can do is expect that our schools are properly wired.”

• Obama carries on to explain that his staff reach for a device of some sort every two minutes.

• As a result, he wants an equivalent experience in schools so that students perceive education as modern and not 20 or 30 years behind the times.

• Baule explains that there are 7 tenets of the Future Ready Pledge, nearly all of which requires leaders in the field of reading, such as librarians to direct their implementation.

• “Librarians must help determine the best route for developing and implementing personal digital devices and help provide the resources to support their ongoing use”.

Seven Tenets of Future Ready

• Fostering and leading a culture of digital learning within our schools

• Helping schools and families transition to high speed connectivity

• Empowering educators through professional learning• Accelerating progress toward universal access to quality

devices for all students• Providing access to quality digital content• Offering digital tools to help students and families reach higher• Mentoring other districts and helping them make the

transition to digital learning

“Become a leader in your building to assemble and curate digital materials that assist the teacher in personalizing the learning for each child”

Evans, J. (2015, May) A vision for mobile learning: More verbs, fewer nouns. Educational Leadership, 72(8), 10-16

• Write down the phrase word that comes into your head when you hear the word mobile learning?

• Chances are they will mostly be nouns: tablets, smartphones, apps.

• Idea that we need to change focus from nouns (mobile devices as delivery mechanisms of information) to verbs (demonstrate the impacts these devices have on learning efficiency and reaching important goals .

• Powerful, college ready career verbs like communicate, collaborate, and contextualize.

• Lucky for us, today’s students focus on what they can do with mobile technology (the verbs) rather than the types of mobile devices (nouns).

• Students envision learning as a 24/7 enterprise with a myriad of informal, spontaneous, self-directed learning experiences happening throughout the day.

• Traditional learning that happens in school is only a fraction of their overall learning day.

• Students perceive online classes and texts, digital games, and mobile devices as vital gateways of their increased engagement in and ability to learn.

• Shift in the learners role. From a passive consumer of information to an active developer of knowledge and skills that the learner considers important for his or her future.

For today’s students, the ideal learning experience is social, untethered, and digitally rich: • Social – students want to create and develop

their own personalised learning networks• Untethered – students can access and publish

their own learning from anywhere, at anytime, through a growing multitude of technological mediums.

• Digitally rich – students want to use tools for learning that they see as relevant to the world in which we live.

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• You have 10 minutes to view one or more of the following resources I’ve created.

• When you return please type in the box one or more ideas that you have developed through these resources that you could implement in your work environment.

• These ideas could be mirroring one of these resources or another idea you have developed.

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