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21 st Century Skills. Digital Age Literacy. Literacy in the 21 st Century . Using Digital Tools in the Classroom Digital Literacy What is it? What does it include? What do digitally literate people look like? Why should teachers teach it?. Using Digital Tools in the Classroom.
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21st Century Skills Digital Age Literacy
Literacy in the 21st Century • Using Digital Tools in the Classroom • Digital Literacy • What is it? • What does it include? • What do digitally literate people look like? • Why should teachers teach it?
Using Digital Tools in the Classroom Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.
What is Digital Literacy? • Composition and reading of ideas represented in print texts, visual texts, audio texts, dramatic and artistic performances O’Brien, D. and Scharber, C. (2008).
Literacy, cont. • Television • Websites • Movies • Talk radio • Magazine Covers • Email • Video Games • Music • Cell phone messages AND MUCH MORE Aqili, S.V. & Nasiri, B. (2010).
What Does It Include? • Like traditional literacy, digital literacy asks students to read and write. However, digital learners must be able to gather information from any format and make sense of that information, use it, and communicate it to others Stripling, B. (2010).
Digital Literacy Tools Aqili, S.V. & Nasiri, B. (2010).
21st Century Multi-Taskers Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll. http://www.pbs.org/teachers/digital-media-literacy/
What do Digital Literate People Look Like? • Intelligently use technology • Amplify solutions with technology • Evaluate impact of technology in larger community Ohler, J. (2008).
Why Should Teachers Teach It? http://www.pbs.org/teachers/digital-media-literacy/ * Information provided by the Program for the Study of Media and Health Publish Date: 2010-01-20
Partnership for 21st Century Skills quote, 2003: • “Students will spend all their adult lives in a multi-tasking, multi-faceted, technology-driven, diverse, vibrant world—and they must arrive equipped to do so” Aqili, S.V. & Nasiri, B. (2010).
Resources • Aqili, S.V., & Nasiri, B. (2010). Technology and the need for media literacy education in the twenty-first century. European Journal of Social Sciences, 15(3), 449-456. • Hisrch, K., & Blanchard, J. (2009). Digital media and emergent literacy. Computers in the schools, 26, 240-255. • O’Brien, D., & Scharber, C. (2008). Digital literacies go to school: Potholes and possibilities. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 52(1), 66-68.
Resources, cont. • Ohler, J. (2008). Digital storytelling in the classroom. California: Corwin Press. • Poore, M. (2011). Digital literacy: Human flourishing and collective intelligence in a knowledge society. Literacy Learning: the Middle Years, 19(2), 20-26. • Stripling, B. (2010). Teaching students to think in the digital environment: Digital literacy and digital inquiry. School Library Monthly, 16(8), 16-19.
Website Resources http://www.pbs.org/teachers/digital-media-literacy/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZokqjjIy77Y&feature=related http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE%20Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/ConnectingtheDigitalDotsLitera/157395/
Web Resources, cont. Images and animations taken from: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images http://www.epals.com/ http://www.readwritethink.org/ http://kids.yahoo.com/ http://www.kidsclick.org/