Easily Integrate 21st Century Literacy into the Language Arts Classroom

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Easily Integrate 21st Century Literacy into the
Language Arts Classroom

• Larry Bedenbaugh
• UCF Literacy SymposiumApril, 2007

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ISTE NETS-T

• All classroom teachers should be prepared to meet
  the following standards
• II. Teachers plan and design effective learning
  environments and experiences supported by
  technology.
• III. Teachers implement curriculum plans that
  include methods and strategies for applying
  technology to maximize student learning.

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IRA Position Statement on Integrating Literacy
and Technology in the Curriculum

• The Internet and other forms of information and
  communication technology (ICT) are redefining the
  nature of literacy. To become fully literate in
  todays world, students must become proficient in
  the new literacies of ICT. Therefore, literacy
  educators have a responsibility to integrate
  these technologies into their literacy curricula.
• Adopted by the IRA Board of Directors September
  2001

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NCTE 2005 Guideline

• Multi-Modal Literacies
• The techniques of acquiring, organizing,
  evaluating, and creatively using multimodal
  information should become an increasingly
  important component of the English/Language Arts
  classroom.

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NCTE 2003 Position Statement

• Resolution on Composing with
• Nonprint Media
• Encourage integrating multimedia composition in
  English Language Arts curriculum

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Florida Legislative Rule 6A-5.065

• The Educator Accomplished Practices of
• the Florida State Board of Education
• 12) Accomplished Practice Twelve - Technology.
• (a) Accomplished level. The accomplished teacher
  uses appropriate technology in teaching and
  learning processes.

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Consider These Quotes

• We need to prepare our children for a future
  that we cant even describe.
• David Warlick
• Technology Consultant Author

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Consider These Quotes

• Whatever made you successful in the past, will
  not in the future.
• Lew Platt
• Former CEO, HP

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Consider These Quotes

• We need to prepare students for their future,
  not our past.

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Consider These Quotes

• We need to prepare students for their future,
  not their present.

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Definitions of 21st Century Literacy

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• NCREL 21st Century Skills
• ETS ICT Literacy
• Pacific Bell/UCLA Initiative for 21st Century
  Literacies
• NMC 21st Century Literacy

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21st Century Literacy

• Bottom Line
• 21st Century Literacy is about more than having
  good technology skills.
• It is learning core subjects and applying these
  learning skills by using ICT tools while
  maintaining a multicultural awareness.

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Consider These Quotes

• Integrating 21st century skills into K12
  education empowers students to learn and achieve
  at the level necessary to succeed in this
  century. Education will become both more
  invigorating and relevant when it reflects the
  realities and challenges of contemporary life.
• John Wilson, Executive Director National
  Education Association

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Digital Students

• Growing Up Digital The Rise of the Net
  Generation
• Don Tapscott, 1997
• This is the first generation to be bathed in
  bits since birth.
• Because of their access to the digital media,
  todays students learn, work, think, shop, and
  create differently than their parents.

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DSL (Digital as a Second Language)
http//www.apple.com/education/digitalkids/
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DSL (Digital as a Second Language)
http//www.apple.com/education/digitalkids/
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Digital Students

• By providing digital students with opportunities
  to learn in ways that satisfy their needs, they
  will be more engaged in the learning process and
  in realizing their potential.

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Consider These Quotes

• Same story, same tool
• Same story, different tool
• Different story, different tool
• Bernajean Porter
• Technology Planner Author

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Best Practices

• Digital Presentations
• Project-based Learning
• Online Book Clubs
• Online Chat Rooms
• Blogs

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Digital Presentations

• Multimedia Authors
• Video Book Trailers
• Digital Storytelling
• Personal Narratives
• Digital Documentaries
• Public Service Announcements

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Digital Presentations

• Multimedia Authors
• Interpret a narrative by using graphics and music
• Create a presentation of student original work
  that includes some combination of music, student
  artwork, graphical interpretation, and/or student
  voice

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Petey the Giraffe
The Canterbury digiTales Project
September 11
To An Athlete Dying Young
They Were Children of the World
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Digital Presentations

• Video Book Trailers
• Movie-trailer style videos about a favorite
  book
• Created with some combination of stills, text,
  video, music, sound effects, and/or student voice

Tell Tale Heart
Catcher in the Rye
Monster
When My Name Was Keoko
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Digital Presentations

• Digital Storytelling
• There are many different definitions of "digital
  storytelling," but in general, all embody the
  idea of combining the longstanding art of telling
  stories with any of a variety of available
  multimedia tools, including still images, voice,
  video, music, sound, text, animation, artifacts,
  and other materials.

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Digital Presentations

• Digital Storytelling
• Personal Narratives
• Digital Documentaries
• Public Service Announcements

A Sacrifice For You
The Power Of One
Moving Again
Tragedy in a Bronx School Yard
Grass Born To Be Stepped On
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Consider This

• "A story should be remembered for its soul, not
  the bells and whistles." 
• Bernajean Porter

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Project-based Learning Description

• Project-based learning asks students to work in
  groups to solve a challenging problem.
• Project-based learning asks students to
  investigate issues and topics addressing
  real-world problems while integrating subjects
  across the curriculum.

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Project-based Learning Description

• Students decide how to approach the problem and
  what activities to pursue.
• Students gather information from a variety of
  sources and synthesize, analyze, and derive
  knowledge from it.

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Project-based Learning Description

• At the end, students demonstrate their newly
  acquired knowledge and are judged by how much
  they have learned and how well they communicate
  it.
• Throughout the process, the teachers role is to
  guide and advise, rather than direct and manage,
  student work.

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Project-based Learning Characteristics

• Curricular content
• Multimedia
• Student direction
• Collaboration
• Real world connection
• Extended time frame
• Alternative assessment

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WebQuests Bernie Dodge Tom March

• A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in
  which most or all of the information used by
  learners is drawn from the Web.
• WebQuests are designed to use learners' time
  well, to focus on using information rather than
  looking for it, and to support learners'
  thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and
  evaluation.

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WebQuests - Levels

• Short Term WebQuest
• Is designed to be completed in one to three class
  periods.
• Has an instructional goal of knowledge
  acquisition and integration.
• At the end of a short term WebQuest, a learner
  will have grappled with a significant amount of
  new information and made sense of it.

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WebQuests - Critical Attributes

• Short Term WebQuest
• An introduction that sets the stage and provides
  some background information.
• A task that is doable and interesting.
• A set of information sources needed to complete
  the task.

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WebQuests - Levels

• Longer Term WebQuest
• Typically take between one week and a month to
  complete.
• Has an instructional goal of extending and
  refining knowledge.

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WebQuests - Levels

• Longer Term WebQuest
• After completing a longer term WebQuest, a
  learner would have analyzed a body of knowledge
  deeply, transformed it in some way, and
  demonstrated an understanding of the material by
  creating something that others can respond to,
  on-line or off-.

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WebQuests - Critical Attributes

• Longer Term WebQuest
• A description of the process the learners should
  go through in accomplishing the task.
• Some guidance on how to organize the information
  acquired.
• A conclusion that brings closure to the quest,
  reminds the learners about what they've learned,
  and perhaps encourages them to extend the
  experience into other domains.

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WebQuests Bernie Dodge Tom March

• WebQuests
• http//webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html
• http//questgarden.com

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Online Book Clubs

• Discussion Board Format
• Informal
• Motivating
• Choice
• what they read
• when they read
• where they read
• how they read
• with whom they read
• Security

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Online Book Clubs

• Literary Book Club
• http//teach.fcps.net/lbc/default.asp

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Online Book Clubs

• Book Nuts Reading Club
• http//www.booknutsreadingclub.com/

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Online Book Clubs

• ePals Book Club
• http//www.epals.com/projects/book_club/

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Online Book Clubs

• Book Clubs Resources
• http//www.book-clubs-resource.com/
• QuickTopic
• http//www.quicktopic.com/

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Online Chat Rooms

• Real-time conversation can be used facilitate
  class discussions
• Pros
• Provides an alternate voice for students
• Conversations can be archived
• Cons
• Risk of banal chatter
• Security/Privacy issues
• Moderated/monitored
• Password protected
• BlackBoard/WebCT

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Online Chat Rooms

• A Tale of Two Cities
• Two chat rooms (England and France)
• Students Internet screen names based on the
  characters in the story
• Students responded to posed discussion questions
  about theme and plot lines
• Students received points for good contributions,
  but lost points for stupid talk

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Online Chat Rooms

• Great Gatsby
• Similar approach
• In the interest of encouraging participation was
  more lenient in allowing improper grammar and
  lower case letters
• Collaborative High/Elementary Project
• HS students became experts on various
  historical figures and assumed identity in chat
  room
• Elementary students posed questions to the
  historical figure
• Alternative to email projects
• Real time exchange with epals, experts

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Blogs

• Short for Weblog a journal that is available on
  the web.
• Originally blogs started as online diaries
  (commentaries, personal thoughts, and essays) and
  were link driven.

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Blogs

• Identified with
• instant publishing of text or graphics to the
  Web without sophisticated technical knowledge
• ways for people to provide comments or feedback
  to each blog post
• the opportunity to archive past blog posts by
  date, and
• hyperlinks to other bloggers

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Blogs

• Fred Roemers 5th Grade Site Tampa, FL
• http//www.pb5th.com/

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Blogs

• Hunterdon Central Regional High School -
  Fleming, NJ
• http//weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/beesbook/

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Blogs

• Blogging Book Club - NJ
• http//bloggingbookclub.blogspot.com/

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Blogs

• Blogmeister
• http//classblogmeister.com/

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Freebie of the Day

• Amazon
• http//www.amazon.com/
• Search Within The Book
• Concordance
• Text Stats

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Contact Info

• Larry Bedenbaugh
• FLaRE Center
• UCF - Teaching Academy Suite 403
• 4000 Central Florida Blvd
• Orlando, FL 32816-1250
• lbedenba_at_mail.firn.edu
• http//flare.ucf.edu