New Media Literaciesfor the 21st Century

A Conversation between teacher/studentmother/daughter

Sharon Peters - teacher, ped. consultant, mother of 3

teenagers

Meg Peters - Gr. 10 student, Lower Canada College,daughter, sister, 308 friends on FB

Some Questions to Examine in Our Conversation

How do we include multiple literacies in our learning processes?

What are the learning activities and situations thatwill reflect the development of competencies of

multiple literacies?

Why do we need to understand the importance of multiple literacies?

How do we go about best evaluating these competencies?

Why do we need to understand the importance of multiple literacies?

“Understand the word, understand the world”

I conjecture that by 2018, a student will routinely be judged not only by her ability to write a 5-paragraph essay but her ability to represent her ideas via a 5 minute podcast, 2 minute movie, and level in an educational game.

How do we include multiple literacies in our learning processes?

Rationale - need for reflection

Taken from Québec Education Program

Taken from Québec Education Program

Rationale : LITERACY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Literacy, simply put,is about meaning-making

Quote taken from the Québec Education Program

To be literate, we must make meaning from all the information that is

available to us - multi-modal information

audiographical

visualtactile

symbolic/representational

The need to include “visual grammar” into our frameworks of literacy

http://aspirations.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/movies/visual_grammar.swf

These tools offer

affordancesfor students to making

meaning

What are the learning activities and situations thatwill reflect the development of competencies of

multiple literacies?

Meg’s Journeyas a digital learner

Meg

Meg

Fictionpress - Simply Meg

ICT in Education - Music on the Internet

A Real Teen Talks about Blogging and Social Spaces

Facebook

Grace

iLike....

... on the topic of backchanneling

Matthew

Nat

Runescape

YouTube for music videos

Whereas previous generations value loyalty, seniority, security and authority, the NetGen’s

norms reflect a desire for creativity, social connectivity, fun, freedom, speed, and diversity

in their workplaces.

(Tapscott)

Shared online learning spaces provide opportunities for students to "be human

together" (Siemens)

Têtes à Claques

It’s all about AUDIENCE

Moist ContinentalLCC Blogs

"From all of the work that we have done with other students, I have learned how to look over other people's work and let them edit my own.”

Outcomes: Skills Built• MultiliteraciesMultiliteracies

• Self-Regulation/Self-Regulation/MetacognitionMetacognition

• Communication StylesCommunication Styles

• Critical Thinking / ReflectionCritical Thinking / Reflection

• Synthesis and SummarySynthesis and Summary

• Info Literacy, Validation, Info Literacy, Validation, FilteringFiltering

• Negotiation and Negotiation and CollaborationCollaboration

How do we go about best evaluating these competencies?

Research•Self-Regulated Learning / Metacognition

(Ley & Young, 2001, Hadwin & Winne, 1996, Boekaerts, 2000)

•Collaborative knowledge construction environments (Jonassen 1995, Scardamalia & Bereiter, 1994) - computers no longer support ONLY individualized instruction

• Improvement in motivation, learning and problem-solving behaviour (Hoyles, Healy and Pozzi, 1994)