EDUF 560:

Integrating Technology into the Curriculum

Session 4:21st Century Literacy

Warm-up

Reflection: What is “literacy”?

Agenda Centering exercise Announcements / reminders Neat resources Review 21st century literacy NETS-S Assignment work

Announcements Marilyn Benakis class visit today Blog posting #2 and Comment #1

due today Assignment change / Survey Rubrics for tech unit and webquest

Neat resources Bugscope WolframAlpha Google Earth Virtual Field Trip example Other suggestions?

Review Laws of media: Enhances, obsolesces

retrieves, reverses Media change shape and boundaries

of the classroom Different dimensions of educational

theory (who directs learning; Bloom; stages of development; intelligences; Freire)

21st Century LiteracyThink-Pair-Share:

What Does It Mean To Be Literate in the 21st

Century?

Review wiki entry on technology literacy

21st Century LiteracyPaolo Freire and literacy:

Literacy as not just “reading the word”, but “reading the world”

And not just “reading the world”, but “writing the world”

Literacy as a generic term for constructing (or maybe discovering) meaning

NETS-S

1. Creativity and innovation2. Communication and collaboration3. Research and information fluency4. Critical thinking, problem solving

and decision making5. Digital citizenship6. Technology operations and concepts

NETS-Students / NETS-Teachers

Reflection questions

What is education for? What do our students need?

What are we trying to do? What is NETS-S suggesting?

Assignment work Example of virtual field trip Technical issues? Avoid Filimentality Components of tech unit / lesson plan

format? Other questions?