I appreciate the theme of this conference, Web of Complexity: Challenges & Opportunities for Schools in the Internet Age. And my Dad would say that I’m in high cotton, presenting here at the Grand Hyatt in mid-town Manhattan, next to Grand Central Station.
Such thrills for the North Carolina country boy aside, my work here seems to be continuing a basic theme for my presentations, a general large group address (keynote) about technology and literacy, followed by a usually well-attended breakouts session on the new web tools — Web 2.0. The message is simple. Information has changed. It is increasingly networked, digital, and overwhelming. As a result, our notions of basic literacy (reading skills, numeracy, and communication skills) must also change. ..and it isn’t a matter of adding a new (digital, technology, etc.) literacy, but redefining the basics of what skills are basic to using information to accomplish goals — learning literacies.
Here are the online wiki handouts:
The overall purpose of the Web 2.0 session is to introduce educators to the underlying concepts of the changing nature of information, and to demonstrate a number of new tools that illustrate these concepts, including blogging, podcasting, wikis, social bookmarks, and RSS.
Here are the online wiki handouts:
