Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Orchestrating the Media Coll. At the epicenter of the evolving nature of literacy is digital literacy , the term du jour used to describe the skills, expectations, and perspectives involved in living in a technological society. How has digital literacy evolved in the 25 years since digital tools began appearing in classrooms? And how can we make it more responsive to our present needs? Writing What You Read Modern literacy has always meant being able to both read and write narrative in the media forms of the day, whatever they may be. For centuries, this has meant being able to consume and produce words through reading and writing and, to a lesser extent, listening and speaking.
New media demand new literacies . New media coalesce into a collage . New media are largely participatory, social media . Being able to actively create rather than just passively consume new media is important for the obvious reason that it teaches literacy and job skills that are highly valued in a digital society. 1. 2. 3. Home. Weboword - Vocabulary Visually! Tom March :: Bright Ideas for Education » Contemporary Teaching. Introduction and rationale What follows is a draft / attempt at digesting and synthesizing all the calls for “21st Century” teaching skills into one list – a list that reflects the best practice of “Web-enhanced” educators. These people use technology as a means to promote intrinsic motivation and a disposition toward critical thinking, they are not obsessed with “teaching” the how-to’s of software applications. My goal in developing this checklist is to outline a continuum of skills for all teachers.
In other words, level 1 is where all teachers can and should be. Levels 2 and 3 identify ways these skills can be developed. Teachers, like students, are at different places in learning continua and we all like to see what the next challenge is when we’ve reached a level of comfort in our current abilities. The checklist is not definitive – on the contrary, I attempted to identify “the least someone needs to know” in order to enjoy success at integrating technology. Foundational Skills. NZ Interface Magazine :: Eight habits of highly effective 21st c.