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• 03 Aug 08
  

  Kelley Connolly

  Sarah Kajder response to Marc Prensky's session that focused on gaming and how this type of technology makes the need to be able to read and write obsolete.

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  • my job to help students gain access to the literacies of power.
  • Our students need us to do more than nod. We need to think. Deeply. I have been moved to do that by Ewan McIntosh who spoke yesterday about the power of divergent thinking and ways that new literacies and emerging technologies lead “the barely motivated to become activists.”
• 21 Jul 08
  

  Barbara Reid

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• 20 Jul 08
  

  kristeen bower

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  A response to Marc Prensky's BLC'08 session on teaching programming

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  • literacy is situated, contextual, social, multiple, active and a component of  identity. New literacies don’t replace former literacies.
  • literacy is situated, contextual, social, multiple, active and a component of  identity. New literacies don’t replace former literacies. This isn’t a situation  of either “new literacies” or “old literacies.”
  • Teaching English is about opening up what counts as valued communication,  inviting ALL students to engage in multimodal discourses, and to put their  knowledge to work. We produce and consume media; expertise means leveraging  tools and spaces in intentional, productive ways; and we participate in global  communities that are keenly, deeply invested.
  • Teaching English is about opening up what counts as valued communication,  inviting ALL students to engage in multimodal discourses, and to put their  knowledge to work. We produce and consume media; expertise means leveraging  tools and spaces in intentional, productive ways; and we participate in global  communities that are keenly, deeply invested
  • the power of divergent thinking and ways that new literacies and emerging  technologies lead “the barely motivated to become activists.”
  • importance of balance across literacies by providing opportunities for students  to demonstrate their knowledge through multiple modes - and to engage, where  possible, with “struggleware.”
  • be transparent when teaching - and to empower students to teach and attain a  whole new level of credibility. If I teach in the ways that they inspire me to  consider, I am empowering students to engage with literacies that value the ways  that they are multiply literate
  • They challenge me to be a gateopener, rather than a gatekeeper.

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• 19 Jul 08
  

  Michael Richards

  Sara attended one of Marc Prensky's sessions at BLC08 and was moved to write this entry based on what she heard. This is a must read entry. Ironically she started this blog so she could write this post. A new voice in the blogosphere, thank you. If you get the chance to see her it is well worth it.

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