I have just posted a new Connect Learning podcast, episode 80. The recordings were made at the TRLD Conference (Technology Reading & Learning Diversity) in San Francisco last week. — or was it the week before? It includes some conversations we had during a Web 2.0 workshop about what’s being bandied around as School 2.0. This part is short, but it is interesting to hear some of the perspectives of people who attend a conference about learning diversities.
The second, longer part of the podcast is a conversation about Literacy. The TRLD conference holds a Community of Learners event each year, where several round tables are set up, each dedicated to a particular issue of teaching and learning in the twenty-first century. My table of tech people, researchers, librarians, business people, Sarah Armstrong, and Don Johnson. There is a lot of discussion that probably extends away from basic literacy, but in the end, I reported the following definition, about which we found consensus.
Literacy in the 21st century includes all skills involved in learning to learn, learning to build with what you’ve learned, and to express compelling what you have built, utilizing all modalities of sense and expression, within today’s rich information landscape.
Not much different from any definition of literacy at any time. It’s just that the skills have changed, as one of the teachers said here in Shanghai said the other day.
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I am always inspired when I read your blog. I have students commenting on many of yor ideas about literacy and blogging. teachers who tap into the cultural(tech world) lives of students are more expansive in their guiding of students. when students engage in metacognitive exercises, learning is owned. I use the same approach with metawriting. when students understand and identitfy their prcess of writing, they learn. combine all this with technology and students now cannect to their world. I propose that all writing is personal. an educator cannot go wrong to have students reflect on process, even the tech process to make all learning personal.
thank you for a year of wisdom, inspiration, and self reflection.
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David,
Thank you so much for chronicling your adventures both as an educator and as a world traveler.
This is a great podcast! Hearing teachers talk about how we need to be changing our teaching is such an encouragement. This podcast needs to be heard by all teachers! … and my fellow college teacher educators.
I wish you were going to be at IL-TCE this year … alas, I’ll meet up with you at NECC.
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