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Universal Authorship

Universal Authorship. Classroom Implications of Living Online Jessie Daniels daniels.jessie@gmail.com. Literacy and Authorship: Questions to think about. Does one automatically lead to the other?  Should we refocus our strategy from "Reading/Writing" to "Authoring"?

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Universal Authorship

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  1. Universal Authorship Classroom Implications of Living Online Jessie Daniels daniels.jessie@gmail.com

  2. Literacy and Authorship: Questions to think about... Does one automatically lead to the other?  Should we refocus our strategy from "Reading/Writing" to "Authoring"? What implications exist within that shift? 

  3. Definition of Literacy Literacy is culturally defined, but overall is acknowledged as individuals over a certain age who are able to read and write to some extent. 

  4. Global Literacy World Leaders in Literacy (According to UNESCO) • Cuba 99.8 • Estonia 99.7 • Also Greenland and other Nordic Countries and known for their progress in literacy Literacy in the USA is also 99% (According to CIA World Factbook) Lowest Literacy Rates in the World • Burkina Faso Apx 24% • Sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest on average in the world

  5. Changes in Literacy In 1870, 20% of the entire adult population was illiterate, and 80% of the black population was illiterate. [...] For the later part of this century the illiteracy rates have been relatively low, registering only about 4% as early as 1930. [...] The gap in illiteracy between white and black adults continued to narrow through the 20th century, and in 1979 the rates were about the same.  -- Excerpt from Chapter 1 of 120 Years of American Education: A Statisical Portrait (Edited my Tom Snyder, National Center for Educational Statistics, 1993). 

  6. Universal Authorship "Everyone Publishing"

  7. Rates of Authorship ( --Dennis G. Pelli and Charles Bigelow "A Writing Revolution" SEED Magazine October 20, 2009. 

  8. Authorship Stats • The number of published authors per year increased nearly tenfold every century for six centuries (since 1400) • By 2000, there were 1 million book authors per year (that is only 0.01% of the earth population of nearly 7 billion) • Currently, authorship (including books and new media) is growing tenfold each year

  9. Importance • Trading Privacy for Influence • Increasing Power of the Individual  • Dissipation of Authority • Validity and Legitimacy in Question • "Going Viral" • Consumer Culture to a Creating Culture

  10. Positive Classroom Applications • Emphasis on Creation • Ease of Collaboration • Availability of Audience • Relevance of Voice

  11. Issues for the Classroom

  12. Resources and Ideas Web 2.0 Tools • Blogs • Wikis • Social Media Awareness and Participation • Technology Connections • Cultural Shift in Students • Discourse as Authorship

  13. Resources Bigelow,Charles and Dennis Pelli. "A Writing Evolution." SEED         Magazine. October 20, 2009. March 26, 2010. Web.Daniels, Jessie. "Issues with Authorship." Wordle.net. March 26,         2010. Web. "Literacy Poster." Management Advantage. March 26, 2010.         Web. "Literacy from 1870 to 1979." National Assessment of Adult Literacy.        March 26, 2010. Web.  Literacy. "The World Factbook." CIA Home. March 26, 2010.          Web.  "Literacy." UNESCO. March 26, 2009. Web.  View this presentation on the web http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dd5pj94c_287hhxwq8ck

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