digital literacies

Virtual

Round

TableApril 2012

21st Century Skills

Digital Literacies

Gavin Dudeney

&

Nicky Hockly

Slides prepared by Gavin Dudeney, Nicky Hockly and Mark Pegrum

How manyof these

statementsare TRUE?

Cows give more milk when they

listen to music

A pregnant goldfish is

called a twit

Ants don’t sleep

Reading is an unnatural act; we are no more evolved to read books than we are to use computers. Literate societies become literate by investing extraordinary resources, every year, training children to read. Now it's our turn to figure out what response we need to shape our use of digital tools.

Clay Shirky

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How manyof these

statementsare TRUE?

Cows give more milk when they

listen to music

A pregnant goldfish is

called a twit

Ants don’t sleep

http://mysterytopia.com/2008/10/bizarreoddstrangeunusual-facts.html

Fabulous facts

Lesson steps

a) Dictate 3 fabulous facts

b) Pairs decide which T/F

c) Research online

high tech / low tech / no tech

d) Feedback

How manyof these

statementsare TRUE?

http://mysterytopia.com/2008/10/bizarreoddstrangeunusual-facts.html

Fabulous facts

Fact-checking is way down; but after- the-fact-checking is way WAY up.

Clay Shirky

evaluate

Apple & Blackberry to collaborate on new Crumble smartphone

Personal literacy

Glogster – edu. glogster.com

Online me

Lesson steps

1. Reflect on content (personal info, video, images, text, comments) for:

• family• classmates/work colleagues• boss (or potential future employer)• a college or university admissions

officer• anybody in the world

2. Create for one audience

3. Share and guess audience

Online me

If you want to keep up, don't try to keep up with the technologies. Keep up with the literacies that the technologies make possible.

Howard Rheingold

NICKY & GAVIN

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Slides prepared by Gavin Dudeney, Nicky Hockly and Mark Pegrum from their forthcoming book: Digital Literacies, Pearson 2012

MARK

email: mark.pegrum@uwa.edu.auweb: e-language.wikispaces.comtwitter: @ozmark17