digital literacies
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Presentation for the Virtual Round Table E-Conference 2012.TRANSCRIPT
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
Dig
ital l
itera
cies
Dig
ital l
itera
cies
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
email: [email protected]: www.theconsultants-e.comtwitter: @theconsultantsefacebook: www.facebook.com/TheConsultantsE
Slides prepared by Gavin Dudeney, Nicky Hockly and Mark Pegrum from their forthcoming book: Digital Literacies, Pearson 2012
MARK
email: [email protected]: e-language.wikispaces.comtwitter: @ozmark17