Literacy & Learning

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This presentation seeks to expand what it means to be literate, when information is increasingly:

Literacy & Learning for the 21st Redefining CenturyLiteracy for the • Net worked, • Digital, and • Abundant

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

New Information Landscape

-- Alvin Toffler

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Use these online handouts, not only to access information about the topics of this presentation, but also to engage in conversations and even contribute.

Session Tags: redefining Literacy Warlick

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Preparing a Workforce that could work...

• In straight rows • Performing repetitive tasks • Under close supervision The purpose of education was different in the industrial age.

Its job was to prepare you for the rest of your life. Today, education should prepare you with the skills you will need to keep re-preparing yourself.

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So much about the information age work place did not exist only 20 years ago. So much of it will be replace 10 years from now -- by tools and processes we can’t even imagine today.

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For the first time in history Our job as educators Is to prepare our children

We’ve lived in unpredictable times for quite a while. The difference today is that things are changing so fast, that we know, now, that we can’t predict the future of our children.

For a future That We can not clearly describe.

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Literacy as We Know It

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Reading

So if teaching children to teach themselves is what we need to do, then literacy is perhaps the best way to go?

But who’s literacy? ;-)

Riting

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Reading Text

In a world where a Wikipedia flourishes and biased content becomes the rule, reading is no longer enough.

Expands into

Exposing What’s True

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Each of these skills, and more, are as critical today as being able to read text from a piece of paper.

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• Find the Information, • Decode it, • Critically Evaluate it, and it into personal • Organize digital libraries.

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Arithmetic Expands into

When all information is made of numbers, being able to calculate values on a piece of paper is no longer engouh for students to master.

Employing Information

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Anderson, Chris. "The Long Tail." WIRED Magazine Oct 2004. 17 Mar 2005 <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html>.

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The long tail means that anyone can publish to a global audience. We all have something to teach or a story to tell. The question is, can they compellingly tell their story.

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We’re not producing this capacity to communicate for the sake of words and numbers alone.

We’re producing this capacity to communicate, because we know that in the 21st century, we’re going to be communicating with images, sound, video, audio, and conversation.

More than 200 sets of Encyclopedia Britannica in less than a minute. ...or hours of DVD-quality video

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To deliver a message today, it must compete for the attention of its audience.

Writing

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Expands into

Expressing Ideas Compellingly

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Expanding our Notions of what it is to be Literate

• Employing Information • Expressing Ideas Compellingly • Exposing What is True

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Jennings, Richi. “Spam and Other Email Threats: Market and Technology Update.” Ferris Research.

8 Jun 2007. Ferris Research. 9 Jun 2007 <http://www.ferris.com/>.

E Kerr, Roger. “HardHedaded Spending Decisions not ColdHearted.”

BusinessROUNDTABLE. 2 Jul 2004. New Zealand Business Roundtable. 9 Jun 2007 <http:// www.nzbr.org.nz/ documents/articles/ articles-2004/040702Copen hagen.htm>

Spam

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..cost the world $50 billion dollars in 2005 (U.S. $19b).

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Expected to double in 2007 (U.S. $35b).

According to the

Copenhagen Consensus

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We could bring HIV/AIDS under control for $27 billion.

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Ethics Ethics Ethics

If we are teaching these prevailing information skills and not teaching students to use them ethically, then weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have a hill of problems.

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Stop integrating technology,

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...and instead, redefine literacy, and integrate that.

If we can integrate contemporary literacy, then the technology will come along, not because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re convinced it makes our students smarter, but because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the pencil and paper of our time.

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This is where we need to be, Where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the information we are focused on, not the technologies.

We see Technology

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It’s Not just Literacy…

It’s learning-Literacy

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It’s Not just Literacy skills…

It’s Literacy Habits Literacy & Learning in the 21st Century David Warlick

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It’s Not just Lifelong Learning…

It’s Learning Lifestyle.

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Thank You!

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