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Tuesday May 05, 2009

Information & Communication Technologies & Education

Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Orchestrating the Media Collage - Annotated

I really enjoyed reading this article and thought it was a good basis for explaining how I think of using ICT in education. The key is to find the right technical tools and the right database and to use these to help students express themselves and communicate.

The first part of the post is the points I hightlighted in the article. The second part is links to resources that provide examples. In the presentation I'll be using Diigo to show you examples of teaching practice and how I record my thoughts on these examples.

Key Points:

- New media demand new literacies.
- New media coalesce into a collage.
- New media are largely participatory, social media.
- 1. Shift from text centrism to media collage.
- A simple video can demonstrate a science process; a blog can generate an organic, integrated discussion about a piece of literature; new media in the form of games, documentaries, and digital stories can inform the study of complex social issues; and so on.
- evolving so quickly that teachers should trust their instincts as they explore what works
- 2. Value writing and reading now more than ever.
- active readers and editors of one another's materials and mindful contributors to group expression
- rafting text for the Web highlights the importance of written expression by recasting it in a more compact, concise form
- Digital stories, movies, documentaries, and many new media narrative forms require clear, concise, and often highly creative writing as a foundation.
- 3. Adopt art as the next R.
- imagine computer technicians rather than language arts instructors teaching writing because of the former's advanced understanding of word processing technology.
- 4. Blend traditional and emerging literacies.
- Digital, Art, Oral, and Written. Being able to understand and blend the best of the old, recent, and emerging literacies will become a hallmark of the truly literate person.
- 5. Harness report and story.
- One kind of metaform can be described by a continuum that is bounded by report on one end and story on the other.
- 6. Practice private and participatory social literacy.
- his can include everything from expecting students to craft a collaborative media collage project in language arts classes to requiring them to contribute to international wikis and collective research projects about global warming with colleagues they have never seen. What is key here is that these are now "normal" kinds of expression that carry over into the world of work and creative personal expression beyond school.
- 7. Develop literacy with digital tools and about digital tools.
- not just how to use digital tools, but also when to use them and why.
- 8. Pursue fluency.
- Digital fluency facilitates the language of leadership and innovation that enables us to translate our ideas into compelling professional practice.
- Teachers as Guides
- What is important is that teachers become advanced managers of their students' talents, time, and productivity. Teachers need to be able to articulate standards of quality and provide feedback that students can use to meet those standards.