Friday, August 31, 2018
Week 3 2018 What do NL/nl look like in classrooms?
This week I'd like you to continue to think about what makes new literacies new and especially consider what they look like in classrooms. New literacies are not just about integration of technology but about how literacy is transformed. I added a bit about the differences between New Literacies and new literacies on last's weeks blog in response to your question/uncertainty. Let me know if we need to revisit this distinction at our F2F meeting on Sept. 14. There was also a question about activity based curriculum. Think about this concept about being based in learner's activity around literacy that is goal directed (activity as a verb), not as basing your classroom on activities before determining goals and purposes of your lessons (activity as a noun). I think that this is consistent with what you already know and do.
As you discuss this week on your own blog, please make sure to use the following terms in your discussions: goal driven reading and writing, affordances, constraints, open networked environments, multimodal texts, literacy practices, social practices, collaboration, communication, critical stance, persistence, flexibility, reflection, teacher and student roles and relationships. You will be introduced to frameworks for classroom practice including TPACK, TPACK+, 21st century literacy learning, flipped classroom, IRT. You have already read about Literacy 2.0 and activity based curriculum. Discuss your thoughts on all of these frameworks: similarities, differences, challenges. You might want to look carefully at Reflection question 2 at the end of H Chapter 10 and respond to that. I have also uploaded to Canvas 6 articles that illustrate NL/nl in classrooms. Each of you should pick a different one to read and then summarize the classroom practices described in the article for each other and discuss how the descriptions of the classroom practices demonstrate the skills, strategies, and dispositions for 21st Century Literacy. I'm sure each of you will also have other topics that you would like to discuss as well.
I hope you have a good Labor Day Holiday weekend and a good week next week. Don't forget to complete a virtual check in form for me please.I'd appreciate if you could do that by Wednesday.
Friday, August 24, 2018
Week 2 2018 What are New/new Literacies/literacies?
You are beginning the first module of the course, which lays the groundwork theoretically for the practical knowledge of supporting literacy development using digital tools that are multimodal. The purpose of this module is to answer the following questions over the first 3 weeks:
What are New Literacies and new literacies? Why are they important? What makes them New? What do they look like in classrooms? How can teachers plan to integrate digital and multimodal literacies into their literacy instruction and learner's literacy learning?
For this week, you are focused on those first three questions. As you read, compare what you know about literacy in a traditional sense with Literacy 2.0, digital literacy and multimodal literacies. Look for connections across the three texts that you are reading. For your blogging discussion, define what you think New Literacies are. How are they different from new literacies? How do the 5Cs of the J text compare to the BABR text's 6 social practices? Where does the information in the H text fit in all of this? What are you doing already that might be supporting New/new Literacies/literacies in your classroom? What are you doing that might not be supportive of New/new Literacies/literacies? Please use the following vocabulary in your responses in ways that demonstrates your understanding of the concepts that underlie them: creativity, collaboration, activity based curriculum, affordances, social practices, intertextuality, learning networks, digital citizenship, critical thinking, communication, comprehension, open and closed networked environments, connective writing, forward inferencing, sources of prior knowledge, connected learning.
Remember to post your responses to my questions before you read the response of your classmates. Remember also to include a question for your classmates that you would like to discuss. Finally, the blog should become a discussion between the 3 of you, so that means more than just posting and responding once to each of your other 2 classmates.
I look forward to reading what you write and discuss. I'll weigh in when I feel the need or if you want me to. Have a good week.
What are New Literacies and new literacies? Why are they important? What makes them New? What do they look like in classrooms? How can teachers plan to integrate digital and multimodal literacies into their literacy instruction and learner's literacy learning?
For this week, you are focused on those first three questions. As you read, compare what you know about literacy in a traditional sense with Literacy 2.0, digital literacy and multimodal literacies. Look for connections across the three texts that you are reading. For your blogging discussion, define what you think New Literacies are. How are they different from new literacies? How do the 5Cs of the J text compare to the BABR text's 6 social practices? Where does the information in the H text fit in all of this? What are you doing already that might be supporting New/new Literacies/literacies in your classroom? What are you doing that might not be supportive of New/new Literacies/literacies? Please use the following vocabulary in your responses in ways that demonstrates your understanding of the concepts that underlie them: creativity, collaboration, activity based curriculum, affordances, social practices, intertextuality, learning networks, digital citizenship, critical thinking, communication, comprehension, open and closed networked environments, connective writing, forward inferencing, sources of prior knowledge, connected learning.
Remember to post your responses to my questions before you read the response of your classmates. Remember also to include a question for your classmates that you would like to discuss. Finally, the blog should become a discussion between the 3 of you, so that means more than just posting and responding once to each of your other 2 classmates.
I look forward to reading what you write and discuss. I'll weigh in when I feel the need or if you want me to. Have a good week.
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