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George Couros's List: 21st Century Literacies

    • Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups.
      • Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
      • Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
      • Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes
      • Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information
      • Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
      • Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

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  • Oct 18, 10

    Talking about how we decipher information and essential literacies.

    - Discusses how the real threat is people we know

  • Nov 12, 10

    "In the Home – Digital and media literacy competencies can be learned in the
    home, where most people watch television and movies, sur the Internet, listen to
    music, read newspapers and magazines, and play videogames. With appropriate
    levels o parental engagement, many digital and media literacy competencies can be
    learned at home, provided parents have high levels o interest and motivation and
    the drive to gain knowledge and skills. Organizations like Common Sense Media
    provide parents with tools to help them start conversations with their children about
    the responsibilities o media and technology use."

    • Contents 
       
        From report to Action...............................................................................v 
       
        executive SummAry.....................................................................................vii 
       
        DigitAl AnD meDiA literAcy
       
        A plAn oF Action,Renee Hobbs 
       
        The Knight Commission Recommendation......................................... 15 
       
        The Heritage o Digital and Media Literacy......................................... 16 
       
        Meeting t
    • 1. Schools should change learning so that it's engaging and individualized. Potential technology tools include wikis, blogs, digital content and visualization tools.

       

      2. Schools should measure student progress against college and career ready standards and access real-time data that will guide learning along the way. Potential technology tools include learning systems and technology-based assessments.

       

      3. Schools should connect teachers to tools and individuals who can help them become effective. Potential technology tools include online learning communities, blended professional development and data systems.

       

      4. Schools should provide broadband connectivity for students, no matter where they are. Potential technology tools include mobile devices with Internet access, digital authoring tools, the Web and an infrastructure for learning that's always on.

       

      5. Schools should become more productive, improve student learning and manage costs through technology. Potential technology tools include online courses and learning dashboards that keep students on track to graduate.

    • The study comes from internal data acquired by ReadItLater, a web service that lets users bookmark web content for perusal at a different time. Though you may think this slightly colors the dataset, the way this service works gives the company unique access to time-coded data on how iPad users (and traditional computer users) read content online.
    • But it's with the iPad that the statistics get very odd indeed: With minor usage spikes first thing in the morning, at lunchtime and then dinner time, the main bulk of iPad text content consumption is from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m..

       

        This is prime-time TV's slot, and it seems that as well as settling back on the sofa to watch TV, people are taking their iPad with them too. The data doesn't reveal if folk are multitasking (spending some time ogling their favorite shows, some looking data up on the Web) or are ignoring the TV altogether--but the data will still be of concern to TV execs who expect uninterrupted attention from TV watchers, in order to maximize ad revenues.

    • For many teachers and parents, those text abbreviations may spell the end of literacy as we know it, but a growing body of research indicates that text messages can actually help students' ability to spell.
      • Talking about the importance of texting to literacy.

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    • But, what happens when knowledge and teachers aren’t scarce? What happens when it becomes exceedingly easy to people and content around the things you want to learn when you want to learn them? What happens when in the next decade or so, almost everyone gains access to these profoundly different learning spaces, filled with teachers and content outside the walls through the devices they carry in their pockets? What happens when we don’t need schools to manage the delivery of content any more, when we can get it on our own, anytime we need it, from anywhere we’re connected, from anyone who might be connected with us?
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