Literacy in the 21st century for CCIRA convention by Kylene Beers and Bob Probst

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CCIRA 2012

Kylene Beers

Robert E. Probst

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Literacy in the 21st Century

Share the essentials or critical components of literacy education in the 21st century

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Critical Components of Effective 21st Century

Schools

1. UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN LITERACY DEMANDS

21st Century Literacies Definition

In order to thrive in an increasingly interdependent, global society, students need to acquire the full range of 21st century literacies. As defined by NCTE, 21st century literacies are essential to student achievement; they include the ability to…

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

“In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.”

The World is Flat

Thomas Friedman

Schools

1 . UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN LITERACY

DEMANDS

2.Highly engaged school community

(faculty, students, parents)

“When the profit motive becomes unmoored from the purpose motive, bad things happen.”

Schools

DEMANDS

2.HIGHLY ENGAGED SCHOOL COMMUNITY

(FACULTY, STUDENTS, PARENTS)

3.Highly skilled readers and writers for

Content Areas

Achievement

Percentile

Minutes of Reading per Day

Words per Year

90th 40.4 2,357,00050th 12.9 601,00010th 1.6 51,000

Reading Volume of Fifth-Grade Students of Different Levels of Achievement

(Based on In and Out of School Reading Logs)

Anderson, Wilson, & Fielding, 1988

Move from Best Practices to Next Practices

Schools

DEMANDS

2.HIGHLY ENGAGED SCHOOL COMMUNITY (FACULTY, STUDENTS,

PARENTS)

3.HIGHLY SKILLED READERS AND WRITERS FOR CONTENT AREAS

4.Fluid use of multiple tech

To understand how the “how” is changing, let’s look back to the literacy demands of an earlier time…

Are you a stranger, visitor, or resident?

Wordle Flickr You TubeDel.icio.us IM PoppletsDigg Twitter Second LifeSkype MMORPG PolleverywhereEvernote Ning GoogleLitTripsPodcasts Diigo FacebookBlogs Email TaggingWiki Text JottitNaturally Speaking Google Docs Typewith.me

Schools

1. UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN

LITERACY DEMANDS

2.HIGHLY ENGAGED SCHOOL COMMUNITY

(FACULTY, STUDENTS, PARENTS)

3.HIGHLY SKILLED READERS AND WRITERS FOR

CONTENT AREAS

4.FLUID USE OF MULTIPLE TECH TOOLS

--Wayne Otto

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

Learn More

Twitter/KyleneBeers or Twitter/BobProbst

KyleneBeers.com (Kylene’s blog)

Article from us on why reading lit is important:

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Slides at Slideshare.com

Summer Reading Institute in San Antonio, Texas, June 19-22, 2011

Summer Reading Institute in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, June 26-30, 2011

Info for both at www.heinemann.com (click on workshops)

Literacy in the 21st century for CCIRA convention by Kylene Beers and Bob Probst

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