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Network Literacy

Elizabeth HelfantInstructional Technology

MICDSehelfant@micds.org

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GOALS

• Understanding Network Literacy (and why we need it)

• Understanding Ways to Develop a Network http://www.flickr.com/photos/

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Educational Leadership – Literacy 2.0 March 2009

Becoming Network-WiseWill RichardsonStudents today are living in a world of online interactions for which they have few learning contexts or models. Schools must begin to prepare students for their connected futures online. Teachers need to embrace new technologies in their own practice and add an important expectation

for learning—namely, that by graduation, students will be able to create, navigate, and grow their own personal learning networks in safe, effective, and ethical ways. This means that teachers need to acclimate students to hypertext environments, teach them to critically "read" both information and people, hone students' skills in writing for authentic audiences and in multiple modes, and promote organized sharing of online sites and resources.

IN A NETWORKED WORLD, IT ISN’T BUSINESS AS USUAL

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Teach them to

hold their world (not ours) in the palm of their hands-

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Don’t set them up to be crushed because they have outdated skills.

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

Alvin Toffler

The dialog we should be having as professional educators – as communities and nations –is what do children need to be learning today to be ready for an unpredictable future.

The best thing we can be teaching our children today is how to teach themselves.

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TRANSLATION – TEACH THEM TO NETWORK

NOTE - IT IS HARD TO TEACH/MODEL WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW

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SHIFTS IN CULTURE

SHIFTS IN LITERACY

SHIFTS IN EDUCATION

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Information Explosion

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Participatory Culture

• Shift from Consuming Knowledge to Evaluating, Constructing, and Creating Knowledge

Education that is targeted at you but doesn’t include you, might not be worth sitting still for.

Social Networking

Flat World Ideology

Ease of Global Collaboration

Today’s Necessary Skills

• Network Literacy• Intercultural Literacy• Digital Citizenship/Ethical Literacy• Information Literacy• Visual/Media Literacy

Teacher Evolution

You Have to Start Somewhere

Social Bookmarks

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How do I keep up with the info?

iGoogle

Google Reader

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Blogger Read them Yourself

Participate

START ONE!

Blog with Students

• Diagnostic Assessment• Student Reflection• Conversational Assessment• Scribe Blogs

Flickr

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Creative Commons

Google Docs Office Online + Forms

FOR TEACHERS

• Plan Lessons Together

• Create Student Handouts

• Create Departmental Presentations

• Simple Formative/Diagnostic Assessments

FOR STUDENTS

• Collaborative Writing• Lab Reports• Shared

Presentations/Reports

• Collect Class Data

RSS and Version History too!

Wikis

Dissecting a Wiki

Uses

Teacher• Build a Course

Presence• Showcase other Web

2.0 apps using embed codes

• Collaborate with Peers to build Units

Student• Collective Notes• Build a Text• WikiLabs• WikiProjects

Social Networking - Ning•Blogs•Discussion•Comment Wall•Videos•Music•Individual Personality/Profile Pages

Nings for Professional Development

Nings for Students

Role Play

Extending the Discussion Outside of Class

Organizing Course Structure

Twitter

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Google Docs

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To this:

COLLABORATION TOOL

To this:

Information LandscapeConsume,

Create, Collaborate,

CommunicatePublish,

Remix, Interact

To this:

Electronic Conferences•Skype

•Pamela•Mikogo

•uStream.tv•Elluminate

Evolution of a Faculty Meeting

To this:

PLC-Personal Learning Communities

METC Ning

Create Your Own

To this:

• TedTalks

• EdTechTalks

• iTunes U

• Open Source Courses