New Literacy & New Web Workshop for ESC Region 10 Staff in Richardson Texas

After delivering a workshop (through ESC Region 10) on new literacy for teachers in the Dallas, Texas area a couple of months ago, the educational technology staff asked me to return to work with the staff of the center. The workshop is divided into two parts. A presentation of new literacy (Contemporary Literacy) with the entire staff in the morning. And two breakout sessions in the afternoon on Web 2.0. Here are the links:

  • Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century
  • It is important to acknowledge the supreme importance of reading, arithmetic, and writing. They are more important today than at any point in our history. However, it is equally important that we expand our notions of what it means to be a reader, a processor of information and a communicator, when information is increasingly networked, digital, and overwhelming, and to understand the new ethical implications of the new information environment.

  • An Educator’s Guide to Web 2.0
  • There are a series of new technologies that have emerged in recent months that have so changed the way that we use information and the Internet, that they are increasingly being called Web 2.0. The new effect is that people are beginning to connect with each other in new ways, through their content.

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