Reading Revolution

1. Reading Revolution Social Networking Technologies for Learning May 5, 2011

2. Social Networking & Literacy • New technologies are bringing revolutionary transformations in reading, writing, communicating, and knowledge production. It represents a fourth revolution following language, writing, and print. • Warschauer, 2008

3. Social Networking: Changing Literacy Practices • Work • 62% of adults cell phones and text message to complete job related tasks. • MMORPG’s Business Leadership • Resources are distributed • Highly-competitive • Highly-collaborative • Civic Engagement • Obama Facebook • YouTube Debates • Record number of registered voters under 30 turn out to vote in the primaries. Power to the Millennial!

4. Digital Literacies • Design web pages people want to visit. • Know rules for participation in electronic communities. • Effectively and appropriately insert oneself into an electronic community. • The ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities.

5. In an Out of School Literacy Practices • School based literacy practices • Decoding and encoding page bound print • A solitary act of cognition. • Assessed by a standardized test. • Out of school literacy practices • Read and write multimodal texts • Collaborative • Performance assessment - Using texts and technologies to communicate effectively to get something done in the world.

6. Social Networking & Youth • 96% of 9-17 year olds report using social networking technologies. • 70% use at least 9 hours a week. • Reading and writing more than anytime history. • Changes the way young people: • Communicate • Socialize • …and how they approach learning

7. Social Networking & Schools • 80 – 90 % of schools against any type of social networking technology like email, posting to discussion boards, blogging, & text messaging. • Frivolous and the equivalent of unproductive classroom talk. • Digital ways of writing “dumb down kids” • Academic writing needs to proceed digital ways of writing

8. Texting and Literacy • Txt Msg N School Literacy: Does Texting and Knowledge of Text Abbreviations Adversely Affect Children's Literacy Attainment? (2008) • Children who are avid text messages tend to have better performance on a measures of verbal reasoning ability, spelling attainment and general writing attainment.

9. September 7 - 9:26 am hi September 7 - 4:19 pm hey September 7- 3:41pm hi March 30 4:28pm hey wat r u doing? ask ur mom and dad if you can come to my B-DAY! April 15 10:43 am HEY WHAT DID U DO @ UR GRANDMAS

10. May 5 - 9:50 am Hey Girl, How is Texas? I want to go to Texas really bad! Is Texas hot during the winter? I have never been to Texas. What is your school like? Ours hasn’t changed much. We got a kid name Tyler. For our concert our songs are ‘Tiger Tiger, Talk To The Animals,” The Goat, “ Music of Life,” and “Three Creature Feature.” LOVE Shauna (P.S. I MISS U A LOT!)

11. The Problem • Children do not always learn these literacies on their own. • Some do not have access. • Millennial Myth • Many tend to use social media in narrow and repetitive ways. • The digital divide may be widening

12. The purpose of schooling • To ensure that all students benefit from learning in ways that allow them to participate fully in public, community and economic life (New London Group, 1996).

13. The Question • How can social network sites promote the development of digital literacies and the academic literacies school purport to value?

14. Why youth ♥ Social Network Sties Yes! This is my biological Mom!

15. Motivation & Literacy • A strong connections exists between identity construction and motivation to engage in literacy learning. • Motivation is key in raising literacy achievement!!

17. Politics

24. Edmodo

26. Collaborative Story Writing

27. Edmodo and Attitudes Toward Writing • Because it makes me feel more confident of my writing. • I really like when people tell me how good i did on a project. • I think it inspired me to write these stories with my friends and family. I thought it was a fun activity. • Both of them were using what they thought would make real story, two minds making something interesting. • I like typing on Edmodo better because I personally think that typing is more fun than writtng on paper.

28. Teacher of the Year • Keep your head up high and stay in charge! • Always remember to have everything you need! • Never give up, no matter how frustrating • it gets! • Stay calm when a student forgets something. • Remember to speak in a calm voice! • Never be shy to mess up. • Be random and mix it up a little bit. • Remember subjects are not just facts.

29. Pre-service Teacher Thoughts • I was nervous about doing the Magazine cover because I felt like my status was at the will of these ten year olds, but I was happy to read the TONS of responses I received. I was flattered actually. • I had no idea that there were such great websites available for teachers and ways to incorporate technology into the classroom. • I learned that fifth graders are a lot smarter than I thought!

30. Benefits • Students become closer and more inclusive as a group. • Provide students with opportunities to build digital literacies who lack access at home. • Improve motivation to engage in literacy building activities. • Bridge out of school literacy practices with academic literacy practices in ways that improve both skill sets.

31. Best Practices in Adolescent Literacy Instruction for the 21st Century • Provide a clear purpose for writing. • Provide an authentic audience for writing. • Provide opportunities for self-expression. • Provide opportunities to draw on funds of knowledge. • Provide opportunities for collaborative writing. • Provide opportunities for multimodal expression.

32. My beliefs • Not the equivalent of unproductive classroom talk. • These web pages count as legitimate text for learning. • Students are learning how to texts and technologies to communicate effectively. • The are learning to read and write in ways that schools claim to value. • They are learning skills valued that will help them become productive citizens and achievement personal fulfillment in their lives outside of school.