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ALT Strand (Arts, Literacy, and Technology). Rusty Clevenger, USD 116 Fine Arts Betty Allen, USD 116 Fine Arts Lynn Burdick, University of Illinois Haeny Yoon, University of Illinois. The Arts & Literacy & Technology Connection:.
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ALT Strand (Arts, Literacy, and Technology) Rusty Clevenger, USD 116 Fine Arts Betty Allen, USD 116 Fine Arts Lynn Burdick, University of Illinois Haeny Yoon, University of Illinois
The Arts & Literacy & Technology Connection: Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms—are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities and social trajectories of individuals and groups.
M.A.K. Halliday’s Functions of Language • Learning with Language: Using language to understand norms, rules, content, ideas, etc. • Learning through language: Using language to accomplish goals and to interact with others. • Learning about language: Understanding the syntax, forms, parts of language.
Literacy and language use satisfies multiple needs: • To get things done • To understand • To communicate a message • To express oneself • To build social relationships • To satisfy needs • To control/empower/overpower
Working definition of literacy • It is a social, interactive process. • Language encompasses multiple symbol systems that are used to communicate (i.e alphabet, numbers, codes, gestures, digital symbols, etc.) • Being literate varies across different contexts (time, place, events, etc.). • Literacy is not just about grammar, spelling, decoding, punctuation, but about making meaning. • Literacy involves using language to communicate: talking, reading, writing, drawing, movement, and technology in an interrelated way. • To be literate is shifting and changing. • Children are already competent communicators before they come to school.
Synthesis All creative products and solutions are a form of expression where we use our body, voice, and mind through multiple, cultural tools.
What is Arts Infusion? Arts Infusion is an approach to teaching and learning that integrates skills and content from an art form (art, dance, drama, music) with another subject (math, science, reading…). By having instructional objectives in both areas, the goal of this blending is to deepen student understanding in the subject area as well as the art form, allowing both disciplines to mutually support and strengthen each other. Pine Street Elementary School
Why Infuse the Arts? Children need to be competent in multiple modes of communication and expression. Using the arts should not be an after thought or add-on, but it should be a vehicle to all learning. Arts are a main mode of communicating our culture through artifacts: art, dance, drama, music, writings, etc.
Collaboration Communication Critical Thinking Creativity
Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally.
Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes.
Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information.
Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments.
Working definition of literacy • It is a social, interactive process. • Language encompasses multiple symbol systems that are used to communicate (i.e alphabet, numbers, codes, gestures, digital symbols, etc.) • Being literate varies across different contexts (time, place, events, etc.). • Literacy is not just about grammar, spelling, decoding, punctuation, but about making meaning. • Literacy involves using language to communicate: talking, reading, writing, drawing, movement, and technology in an interrelated way. • To be literate is shifting and changing. • Children are already competent communicators before they come to school.
Literacy and language use satisfies multiple needs: • To get things done • To understand • To communicate a message • To express oneself • To build social relationships • To satisfy needs • To control/empower/overpower
Advantages • Digital text can be • marked • transformed • linked • Digital technologies • facilitate tiered scaffolding • capitalize on student strengths • engage students
Two Layers • Using technologies to facilitate traditional language/literacy • Traditional definition of literacy • Adding “digital” advantages • Acquiring “digital literacy” • Learning 21st century skills
Digital Literacy Competencies • Use: Ability to engage with technology • Understand: Ability to comprehend, contextualize, and critically evaluate digital media • Create: Ability to produce content using media tools
“The New Literacy” “Computers are causing us to rethink both our definition of literacy and our approaches to teaching it. We are in a transition period, beginning to move away from print-dominated classrooms where literacy focuses almost completely on tasks related to effectively dealing with text”
“The New Literacy” “New technologies and new media are broadening our perspective on the goals of teaching literacy, shedding new light on the learners we are trying to reach, what we should teach them, and how they should be taught.”
“The New Literacy” “’Write your name on your paper’ no longer covers all the options. Saying to the students, ‘Identify the piece of work as yours” could result in them typing their names, making a digital recording, pasting a personal logo or a scanned photo of themselves into a document, or creating a link to their home pages.”
Moving Forward and Not Backward The significant problems we face cannot be solved with the same level of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein Changing Education Paradigms by Sir Ken Robinson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U