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SFU Student Teacher Information and Media Literacy

SFU Student Teacher Information and Media Literacy. Kevin Amboe December 2009. Technology is to Communicate.

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SFU Student Teacher Information and Media Literacy

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  1. SFU Student TeacherInformation and Media Literacy • Kevin Amboe • December 2009

  2. Technology is to Communicate • "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of the flickering pictures - in this century as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing people together.” •  Antoine de Saint -Exupery (1900 - 1944) 2

  3. Teaching as a Journey • My Journey started in 1995 with Surrey and Richmond. • Comfortable with Technology and teaching • By 2000, I wanted more leadership with adults

  4. Marc Prensky • Digital Native • Digital Immigrant • Digital Tourist • Digital Resident

  5. Shape of Day • 9:00 Conversations / Irritations • 10:00 • Hands on - rapid fire - explorations • or • Hands off - cover more ground • 11:30 • Notes on Style - Irritate - Model - Diverge 5

  6. Information Literacy • Inquiry • Access, • Process, • Interpret, • Present

  7. Media Literacy • Interpret media messages 7

  8. Twenty First CenturyStudents • Born as Digital Natives • Cellular phones • Mobile Devices • iPods • WebKinz 8

  9. What is an educated person? 9

  10. Are you an expert? • Can you look it up on Google? • Do you know it without Google? 10

  11. Literacy • Reading understanding, comprehending, acting on it, articulate , convey (meaning to words) • Level of literacy - poetry - numeracy - problems - life application / connections - spectrum of everyday life • ability to communicate ideas - speech, reading, doing - with two types of language • domains of literacy - eduspeak - • types - visual (images) - math literacy • not related to intelligence • translate between interior dialogue and external communication • oral - retelling / internal processing • decoding vs for meaning • assessing information - critical mindedness - beyond words • to find / access or navigate toward understanding • strategies to understand / comprehend what trying to figure out • minimum threshold to be able to apply to that field. Transferability 11

  12. What is Literacy? • Reading and Writing 3 • Organize and Structure Thought • Find answers and communicate • Develop understanding of new ideas • Differentiate alternate medias / realities / currency • use whatever form of media • decode accuracy and understand • make sense of information • (need other parameters defined • being able to function • being able to communicate in the present world • Personal connections to what see /read • knowing the degree of influence ‘sources’ tell you 12

  13. What is Literacy? • ability to use language to communicate • understand information in front of you • reading and writing • Knowledge, Comprehension, Application • Languages of Literacy - Writing, Reading, Technology, Science, Numeracy • Comprehension - basic understanding • Ability to interpret symbols 13

  14. Literacy • read write and speak • good understanding of something • comprehending what reading • fluency in language (computers books) • functional level in a certain area 14

  15. What is literacy? • Comprehension, analyze, interpret, apply - Tools to get comprehension • Able to read, write, comprehend x2 • Understanding and being able to use it • Ability to understand and interpret written language • Comprehension, think critically about what we receive reading • SFU Student Teachers 2007

  16. What is literacy • Navigate and decode (web, book, page) • Understanding and teach to others, comprehension • Discuss what you read • Decipher without help • ability to read and write • 5 finger rule of comprehension • If you see it you know what to do with it • If you don’t understand - have strategies • Enables to interact with each other 16

  17. What is literacy? • How do we define Literacy? • Read and understand the language of your culture • Adequately converse on any subject • Read, Write, and Truly Understand • Gathering, making meaning, implementing information • Reading, Varied communication, understanding • SFU Student Teachers Fall 2007

  18. What is literacy? • How do we define Literacy? • Decoding, recognizing symbols, understanding, comprehending, able to use / work with, communicating, linking, making sense, making connections, evaluating sources, metaphors / context, connotations, nuances, input into self, understand, then output • Victoria TLITE

  19. What is Literacy? • The traditional definition of literacy is considered to be the ability to read and write, or the ability to use language to read, write, listen, and speak. In modern contexts, the word refers to reading and writing at a level adequate for communication, or at a level that lets one understand and communicate ideas in a literate society, so as to take part in that society. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy

  20. Missing the Boat • Do We Really Teach students to? • understand and communicate ideas in a (TODAY’S) literate society

  21. Missing the Boat • High School students that have used technology since grade 4 • Never been exposed to spreadsheets • “Things everyone knows” • Flash and Photoshop • Know more than their parents

  22. We need a Plan

  23. Information and Media Literacy • Six Key Aspects • Use Technology • Understand Role • Inquiry • Create • Communicate • Think Critically

  24. Where are you?

  25. Self Assessment

  26. So What? Now What? • What are the implications for teaching? • What strategies can we use?

  27. Kudos to you • You don’t know your destination; however, you will become more Information and Media Literate. • Empowering students will empower your learning as well.

  28. Digital Students • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-KAb5fomKY • Web2.0 Sequel • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o • Students as Fleas • http://www.youtube.com/v/yYu81Q1QTy4

  29. Further Thoughts • If you want to know more, contact Kevin Amboe - amboe_k@sd36.bc.ca

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