Yesterday, I attended Will Richardson’s presentation about the influences that Web 2.0 has had on literacy. Today, I’ll be exploring how the mere computer and the mere Internet have impacted on our definition of literacy. Information has become increasingly networked, digital, and overwhelming. Each of these characteristics of this emerging new information landscape have impacted significantly on what we might consider the basic skills of using information to accomplish goals, literacy. Here are the online wiki handouts:
That keynote address will be followed by a breakout session, which is usually delivered as a keynote address, Telling the New Story. This is a presentation that was developed as a follow-up to Literacy & Learning, since people frequently asked the question, “OK, I agree. So how do we make it happen.”
“We make it happen by telling a compelling new story about teaching and learning and classrooms in the twenty-first century, a story that is so exciting that it shatters the stories that we gained from the 12 or 13 years that we all spent in schools during the 1950, ’60s, ’70s, & ’80s. Here are the online wiki handouts”:
Will and others have already presented many good sessions about Web 2.0 tools. I feel a little like a late-comer with this presentation. But my style is different, and this is all sooooo new, and any many ways, it is counter intuitive to the ways that we think of teaching and learning. So I suspect it is a topic that needs to be heard again. Here are the online wiki handouts.
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