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Learning to Learn: From Information to Knowledge Creation

Multiple Literacies, Multiple Minds!. Learning to Learn: From Information to Knowledge Creation. cindy.matthews@tdsb.on.ca. Students need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able. Wesch, 2008 Defining literacy is a process of

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Learning to Learn: From Information to Knowledge Creation

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  1. Multiple Literacies, Multiple Minds! Learning to Learn:From Information to Knowledge Creation cindy.matthews@tdsb.on.ca Students need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able. Wesch, 2008 Defining literacy is a process of continuous negotiation Loertscher, Koechlin & Zwaan, 2008

  2. What is literacy? What are the language structures in our students’ minds? How do they read and make meaning? How is their syntax shaped?

  3. Multiple Literacies

  4. Visual Literacy Competencies Interpreting, creating and using visual images Being aware of emotional impact of visuals Analyzing patterns & trends in graphics & words Thinking, decision making and communicating with visuals Implications Visual models used increasingly to create or demonstrate understanding of data Need to develop visual spatial intelligence

  5. Aesthetics: colour & meaning-making

  6. posters Codes of communication: Z pattern

  7. http://scratch.mit.edu/ Digital storytelling: gaming and creating

  8. Codes to create: storyboarding as thinking, organizing & communicating

  9. Codes to create: scripting as thinking, organizing & communicating

  10. Visual Literacy in Traditional formats http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Imagine-a-Night/Sarah-L-Thomson/9780689852183 inferences http://www.legacyproject.org/books/dream.html mood http://www.amazon.ca/Duck-Rabbit-Amy-Krouse-Rosenthal/dp/0811868656 point of view http://www.shauntan.net/books/red-tree.html visualization

  11. http://www.amazon.com/Look-Body-Language-Gillian-Wolfe/dp/1845070348http://www.amazon.com/Look-Body-Language-Gillian-Wolfe/dp/1845070348 http://www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-Incredible-Biodiversity-Earth/dp/1553376692 Visual Literacy in Cultural and Information texts http://education.scholastic.ca/product/9780779106738 http://www.shauntan.net/books/the-arrival.html http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Wall/Peter-Sis/e/9780374347017

  12. Media Literacy Competencies Constructing meaning from media viewed, heard & read Understanding intended audience & purpose Implications Becoming informed consumers of information & ideas Using tools to analyze media messages Awareness of media persuasion Critical Literacy Competencies Analyzing & synthesizing multiple sources Connecting personal understandings & experiences to texts Implications Text to self, text and world connections

  13. http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/recommended/teaching_kits/scanning_television.cfmhttp://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/recommended/teaching_kits/scanning_television.cfm http://www.cca-kids.ca/ http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/

  14. 1. All media messages are constructed. 2. Media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules. 3. Different people experience the same messages differently. 4. Media have embedded values and points of view. 5. Media messages are constructed to gain profit and/or power. http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm http://www.eworkshop.on.ca/

  15. Critical Literacy paired with Traditional Literacy

  16. Critical Literacy paired with Information Literacy http://www.ebscohost.com/public/canadian-points-of-view-reference-centre

  17. wordle.net

  18. http://www.urgentevoke.com/ http://www.tigweb.org/ Critical Literacy for Cultural Literacy

  19. Digital Literacy Competencies Understanding, evaluating & integrating information in multiple formats Utilizing multidimensional & interactive skills to understand and construct information Implications Fluid construction of knowledge & information Communicating in real time and networked & participatory learning/work environments http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students.aspx

  20. Technology Operations & Concepts http://www.osapac.org/cms/

  21. Digital Citizenship http://www.slideworld.com/slideshows.aspx/Digital-Citizenship--Compass-for-the-21st-Century-ppt-755918 www.digitalcitizenship.net/uploads/ISTECompass.pdf www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/tech/lict/let_me_try/dig_citizenship.doc http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/catalogue/products/descriptions/passport.cfm http://mypolice.ca/children_and_youth/cyber_safety.html

  22. Critical Thinking & Problem Solving • Presentation: PowerPoint, Prezi, Notebook … • Assistive Technology: Clicker 5, Read & Write Gold, Write Out Loud, Dragon Naturally Speaking • Audio Recording: Audacity, Garageband, VoiceThread … • Digital Storytelling: Photostory, iMovie, Flickr, MovieMaker, Frames, ComicLife, Bitstrips … • Online Productivity: GoogleDocs, ZohoWriter, wikis, blogs …

  23. Research & Information Fluency http://www.ourontario.ca/ http://www.secrest.ca/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=34 http://www.gale.cengage.com/InfoBits/ http://www.gale.cengage.com/globalissues/ http://grade6science-jack.blogspot.com/ http://search.creativecommons.org/ http://www.easybib.com/ http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?reqstyleid=1

  24. Communication & Collaboration Google docs delicious online bookmarking diigo online bookmarking, highlighter and sticky noter Shelfari: social media for book lovers Skype: online free video telephoning kidblog.org for blogging without email addresses Voicethreads: online group conversations around images, digital objects, videos

  25. Creativity & Innovation speeches poetry Readers Theatre interviews oral report newscasts announcements

  26. Collaborative Writing Projects http://ipoddigitalfieldtrips.blogspot.com/ http://digitalfieldtrip.blogspot.com/

  27. http://digitalbooktrailers.pbworks.com/ http://emdietsch.glogster.com/rms-multiple-literacies/ http://multiliteracymemoirs.blogspot.com/

  28. For educators, this [book] raises the question, “How can we help students strike a balance between two opposing human impulses: the need for outward connections and the need for inward reflection?” TedTalk: Where Do Good Ideas Come From? Steven Johnson YouTube: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us Michael Wesch

  29. http://weblogged.wikispaces.com/Connective+Writing • Moving Students Online: First Steps for Teachers • Become ‘Goggleable’ yourself • Model connections • Share student work • Practice and teach ‘reputation management’

  30. Structure is Meaning Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, Noam Chomsky, 1965 >>Linguistics: deep structure holds meaning below the surface of syntactic structure

  31. Learning Commons The structure of our school libraries, both physical and virtual spaces promoting equitable access, and our library programs, with a focus on learning partnerships and technology in education, is meaning for our students’ learning as global, Canadian and local community citizens.

  32. How is your Learning Commons structured for meaning, collaborative knowledge construction, Multiple Literacies and Multiple Minds?

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