21st Century Literacies: The Challenge and The Opportunity

21st Century Literacies: The Challenge and The Opportunity

As little as we know about the future for which we are preparing our students, it is clear that it will be a place that is governed by information. Accessing, processing, building with, and communicating that information is how we will all make our livings.

Being literate in this future will certainly involve the ability to read, write, and do basic math. However, the concept of literacy in the 21st century will be far richer and more comprehensive than the 3 Rs of the one room school house, a legacy that still strongly influences today's education environment.

-David Warlick

As little as we know about the future for which we are preparing our students, it is clear that it will be a place that is governed by information. Accessing, processing, building with, and communicating that information is how we will all make our livings.

Being literate in this future will certainly involve the ability to read, write, and do basic math. However, the concept of literacy in the 21st century will be far richer and more comprehensive than the 3 Rs of the one room school house, a legacy that still strongly influences today's education environment.

-David Warlick

The World is Changing

The World is Changing

The World is Changing

The World is Changing

At a rate that is unprecedented!

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that

today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that

today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs

by age 38!by age 38!

According to former Secretary of Education

Richard Riley . . .

According to former Secretary of Education

Richard Riley . . .

The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 will be jobs that didn’t exist in 2004.

The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 will be jobs that didn’t exist in 2004.

We are:We are:

currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .

that will require technologies not yet invented . . .

in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .

that will require technologies not yet invented . . .

in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

What will our students need to operate effectively in 2036?

What will our students need to operate effectively in 2036?

Literacy is changingLiteracy is changing

The ways we access information have changed.

Huge volumes of information are at our fingertips

We need to be able to find appropriate information

We need to judge its credibility.

The ways we access information have changed.

Huge volumes of information are at our fingertips

We need to be able to find appropriate information

We need to judge its credibility.

Literacy is ChangingLiteracy is Changing

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Web 2.0Web 2.0

It is now as easy to publish information to the Web as it is to send an email

We are in the era of: Blogs Social bookmarking Social networking Media communities Wikis Podcasts

It is now as easy to publish information to the Web as it is to send an email

We are in the era of: Blogs Social bookmarking Social networking Media communities Wikis Podcasts

Welcome the age of Web 2.0 The read-write web!

Most middle school students know what these are.

Do we?

How does this affect teaching and learning?

How does this affect teaching and learning?

Students will need to use these tools, in fact many already are.

The tools offer unprecedented opportunities for communication, authentic audiences, and engagement.

We need to model; without models the digital natives are digital orphans.

Students will need to use these tools, in fact many already are.

The tools offer unprecedented opportunities for communication, authentic audiences, and engagement.

We need to model; without models the digital natives are digital orphans.

Teaching New Literacies is EssentialTeaching New Literacies is Essential

Essential for the world of work Essential for the development of an

informed, reflective and active citizenry in a democracy

Essential in extending the joy of learning into a lifelong experience

Essential for the world of work Essential for the development of an

informed, reflective and active citizenry in a democracy

Essential in extending the joy of learning into a lifelong experience

While much is changing, much of what constitutes great

teaching remains the same.

While much is changing, much of what constitutes great

teaching remains the same.

We need to engage students. We need to teach them to

comprehend and think critically. We need to help them to be effective

communicators. We need to teach and support them

to be ethical.

We need to engage students. We need to teach them to

comprehend and think critically. We need to help them to be effective

communicators. We need to teach and support them

to be ethical.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Higher Level Thinking

Evaluation: Make recommendations, assess value and make choices, critique ideas

Synthesis: Discuss “what if” situations, create new ideas, predict and draw conclusions

Analysis: Recognize patterns and meaning, see parts and whole

Application:Use information in new situation, solve problems

Comprehension:Finding meaning,compare, restate,summarize

Knowledge: dates,events, places,vocabulary, key ideas

But while great teaching remains the same …

But while great teaching remains the same …

The tools have changed. Issues of equity have

changed with the tools. New opportunities carry

new risks of inequity.

The tools have changed. Issues of equity have

changed with the tools. New opportunities carry

new risks of inequity.

Many schools and teachers have not yet recognized—much less responded to—the new ways students communicate and access information over the Internet. Students report that there is a substantial disconnect between how they use the Internet for school and how they use the Internet during the school day and under teacher direction. For the most part, students’ educational use of the Internet occurs outside of the school day, outside of the school building, outside the direction of their teachers. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Schools_Internet_Report.pdf

Many schools and teachers have not yet recognized—much less responded to—the new ways students communicate and access information over the Internet. Students report that there is a substantial disconnect between how they use the Internet for school and how they use the Internet during the school day and under teacher direction. For the most part, students’ educational use of the Internet occurs outside of the school day, outside of the school building, outside the direction of their teachers. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Schools_Internet_Report.pdf

The Internet and School

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What are we doing to prepare students for their

future?What more can we do?

What are we doing to prepare students for their

future?What more can we do?

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