Professional Development Workshop: Emerging Literacy in Media and MultiMedia

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Professional Development WorkshopEmerging
Literacy in Media and Multi-Media
Northport-East Northport UFSD

• Presenter Peter Laspina
• Dates Thursdays January 11 January 18, 2007
• Time 300 430 PM
• Location Dickinson Avenue Computer Lab

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Literacy Definitions

• Ability to
• decode
• derive meaning
• speak
• listen
• read
• write

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Elements of Traditional Literacy

• Manipulated Symbols
• Combining symbols into meaningful units
• Construction of meaningful, communicative
  structures
• Transmission and Reception of meaningful ideas
  and information

• Letters punctuation
• Words
• Sentences, paragraphs, and larger forms
• Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing

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Elements of Media MultiMedia Literacy

• Manipulated Symbols
• Combining symbols into meaningful units
• Construction of meaningful, communicative
  structures
• Transmission and Reception of meaningful ideas
  and information

• Five Sensory Inputs
• visual, auditory, haptic, olfactory, gustatory
• Visual Images
• representational
• symbolic
• Sound
• musical
• spoken
• ambient and sound effects (representational)
• direction and (3rd) dimension
• Motion
• Placement
• Text

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Elements of Media MultiMedia Literacy

• Manipulated Symbols
• Combining symbols into meaningful units
• Construction of meaningful, communicative
  structures
• Transmission and Reception of meaningful ideas
  and information

• Narrative Characters
• Layout
• clustering or separation
• position and juxtaposition
• space and white space
• Visual motion
• Navigation
• Locus-of-Control
• sequencing directed, random, repetition,
  variation
• Exposition
• presentation or discovery

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Elements of Media MultiMedia Literacy

• Manipulated Symbols
• Combining symbols into meaningful units
• Construction of meaningful, communicative
  structures
• Transmission and Reception of meaningful ideas
  and information

• Screenfuls
• Plot
• Story line
• Perception
• Meaning-making . . .

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Making Meaning/Deriving Meaning(summarized from
authors Review of Literature)

• Vocabulary (What content/knowledge is needed?)
• No longer exclusively verbal or textual
• Uses multiple sensory-input channels
• Syntax (What skills are needed?)
• Contextual
• Universally understandable
• imagery
• movement, animation
• semiotic
• Attainment (New research and theories of
  Learning,
• Cognition, Perception, Instructional Design,
  etc., are needed)
• Making Meaning teasing out what is contained
  within the texts
• Deriving Meaning assigning meaning to the
  texts

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Elements of Media MultiMedia Literacy

• Manipulated Symbols
• Combining symbols into meaningful units
• Construction of meaningful, communicative
  structures
• Transmission and Reception of meaningful ideas
  and information

• Delivery media
• internetworked (web) or
• hard (CD, cartridge, game-box)
• Environments
• shared or
• discrete
• Interaction
• collaborative or
• competitive
• Timing and Response
• immediate or
• delayed

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Concerns for the Classroom Teacher

• Educational Environment
• current accepted definitions of Literacy
• knowledge base, models, and methods of assessment
• systemic resistance to change
• Personal Investment
• prior successes with older forms
• time and management
• Professional Investment
• pre-service training and preparation
• curricular time

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Necessity for Current Learners

• Their Future, not Our Past (Dr. David
  Thornburg)
• Villagization of the Globe
• Marketplace is already Global
• Educational and Innovational leadership is
  migratory
• Inter-/multi-national corporate, political,
  cultural and knowledge structures.
• outsourcing of both jobs and intellectual
  capital.
• devalued dollar and global exchange rates.
• Literacy will become Global and not Local

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Article 1

• Vincent, J. (2006, April). Children writing
  Multimodality and assessment in the writing
  classroom. Literacy, (40)1, 51-57.

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Article 2

• Grugeon, E. (2005, April). Listening to learning
  outside the classroom Student teachers study
  playground literacies. Literacy, April, 3-9.

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Article 3

• Moje, E.B., Labbo, L.D., Baumann, J.F., Gaskins,
  I.W. (2000). What will classrooms and schools
  look like in the new millennium? Reading Research
  Quarterly, (35)1, 128-134.

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• Grugeon, E. (2005, April). Listening to learning
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• Shephard, K. (2003, June). Questioning, promoting
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  the home. British Journal of Educational
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• Thus endeth the lesson.
• Sean Connery as Jim Malone in The Untouchables