Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2009 No Comments »
What does it mean to be a reader or even a literate person in the 21st century? What challenges face teachers as they explore the complexities of new literacies in literacy instruction? What role does the learner have to play in developing his or her literacy skills?
In working with students from diverse backgrounds, students who [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning on Aug 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Reviewing NECC 2009, if you haven’t already watched, listened and learned check out www.istevision.org. It was a conference where just so much happened, so many professional lives were changed and the potential of technology was recognised as a positive not as something that needs to be harnessed and controlled.
Four weeks on and thoughts of NECC [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Blogs, Creativity, connective writing, new literacies, reading, social networking on Jul 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Human impulse is to write (21st Century Writing).
Kathleen Blake Yancey believes writing has been affected by the context of history from 1940’s to present
war and distance created need for people to write letters
school writing disciplined and punishment oriented
freedom of graffitti writing, letters of freedom of gaol
writing process, moves that lead to final product, process became [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, authentic assessment, hyper literacy, new literacies, reading, risk taking on Apr 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Earlier in the year a friend flicked me an email with an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education attached. It was written by Mark Bauerlein and entitled Online Literacy is a Lesser Kind and it has provoked a great deal of thought and research on my part.
I do not necessarily agree with the writer’s conclusions; [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Blogs, Creativity, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, connective writing, hyper literacy, new literacies, reading, social networking, ubiquitous on Apr 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Just a few thoughts after listening to Kathleen Blake Yancey, reading Writing in the 21st Century and Will Richardson’s commentary.
The concept of connective writing is not about the act of publishing it is what happens before and after publication.
Reading and writing now, are not what they were.
They were:
Reading to inform, teach and indoctrinate.
Writing was for the [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Blogs, Future Learning, personalised learning, social networking on Apr 15th, 2009 No Comments »
MacArthur Foundation Research in 2008
Speak Up 2008 available 24 March
We are becoming Nodes around interest groups on line.
Children are learners and teachers.
Lines are blurrring between who is the teacher and who is the learner.
According to context the role of learner is fluid.
