Technology, Information and Media Literacies: Strategies for Effective Learning

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Technology, Information and Media Literacies
Strategies for Effective Learning

• Cindy Kovalik and Mary Tipton
• ILILE
• Kent State University

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Workshop Structure

• One Credit hour workshop
• Invited Teachers and Library Media Specialists
• Purpose to explore the convergence of 21st
  century skills with technology literacy,
  information literacy, and media literacy in the
  core subjects

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Objectives

• To make a correlation of 21st century skills with
  standards for information literacy, technology
  and media literacy
• To explore new technology tools and how they
  could support instruction
• To develop technology enhanced strategies
• To Assist students in achieving content
  standards
• And to become competent in 21st century skills

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21st Century Skills Framework

• Global awareness
• Financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial
  literacy
• Civic literacy
• Health literacy
• Creativity and Innovation Skills
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills
• Communication and Collaboration Skills

• Information literacy
• Media literacy
• ICT literacy
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Initiative and Self-Direction
• Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
• Productivity and Accountability
• Leadership and Responsibility

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How do the standards interrelate?
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How do the standards interrelate?
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How do the standards interrelate?
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Tool Analysis Form
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• Where and how can you obtain the tool?
• What does the tool cost?
• What does the tool do? How do you use it?
• What kind of products can be created?
• What are characteristics that make it a good tool
  for learning
• Identify characteristics that help make it usable
  for multiple purposes or content areas.
• Identify standard/skill this tool can help
  students achieve

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Tool Analysis
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• Generated a list of new and useful technology
  tools
• Each participant chose a tool to analyze Ex.
• Brainstorming Toolbox
• Crazy Talk
• Flickr
• Gliffy
• Noodletools - NoodleBib
• Quandry
• Scratch
• Thumbstack
• Web Inquiry Projects (WIP)
• Available on wiki http//21stcenturyskills-ilile
  .wikispaces.com

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Tool Analysis Form
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Tool Analysis Form
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Tool Kit
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• World problem/general topic

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Tool Kit
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Tool Kit
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Tool Kit
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• Topic area
• Grade range
• Goals/outcomes
• Student product(s)
• Assessment(s)
• Standards/themes/skills
• Media literacy
• Technology standards
• Information literacy
• 21st century skills
• Strategies, resources, tools

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Tool Kit
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• Share examples
• Irradiated food
• Nonfiction books
• Illiteracy among women
• Enhancing lifelong learning
• Note These hyperlinks will not work. Tool kits
  are available on the wiki site (see last slide
  for web address) and will eventually be available
  on the ILILE web site.

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Lessons Learned

• Overall
• Liked the presentation of the standards
• Liked the activity building relationships between
  21st century standards and other standards
• Strongest part
• Tool Analysis and Toolkit Activity employing
  21st century skills
• Communication with others lots of time for
  discussion
• Standards discussion

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Lessons Learned

• Improvement
• More hands on with tools and technology
• More time to discuss use of the tools
• More practice adding/including 21st century
  skills into the core curriculum

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Lessons Learned

• Collaboration and conversation
• Need to hear other situations and solutions
• Comparison of standards
• Need to see the relationship of different
  standards
• Technology, Information Literacy, Media Literacy,
  and 21st Century Skills
• Hands-on with technology
• Need to try out the technology to see if it would
  work in their situation

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Resources

• 21st Century Skills wiki ilile
• http//21stcenturyskills-ilile.wikispaces.com
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• http//www.21stcenturyskills.org/
• eSchool News Creating the 21st-Century
  Classroom
• http//www.eschoolnews.com/resources/creating-the-
  21st-century-classroom/
• Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008
• http//c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html