Jim Huang, National Geographic International

Multiple Literacy: Using New and Conventional Teaching Media

Description

Because of cultural changes and technological advances, the literacy needs of today's students are more complex than ever before. In the past, students needed to develop the skills and strategies to decode printed materials. Today, they need to decode and integrate information from a variety of traditional and digital media. These range from printed books to social media websites and games. As technology continues to change, they also need the skills to access text from emerging and future platforms. The National Geographic Explorer program uses science and social studies content to help students develop the multiple literacy strategies they need for success.

Grounded in traditional media, the classroom magazine launches students into the digital world through interactive whiteboard lessons, e-editions, and video. This integrated approach to instruction, builds students' skills and confidence, and improves comprehension by giving them multiple exposures to content. This unique approach to instruction, gives them the strategies to decode and integrate text from existing and emerging technologies, and prepares them to take charge of their own life-long learning experiences. This approach to instruction integrates text platforms as well as language arts and content. It provides students with authentic reading and learning experiences that parallels how they access text throughout their lives.

Audience

People working with all ages

Strand

Digital Literacy, and Traditional Literacy (Reading & Writing)

Format

Talk and Demonstration

Biography

Being the representative for National Geographic Explorer internationally, Jim is driving the international expansion of the Explorer programme, which makes educational resources, subsidized by the society and sponsors available to students and teachers outside of the United States. Jim also set up the Green Space initiative here in Singapore, where it aims to work together with organizations both institutional and commercial, to provide avenues and platforms for students to learn and get excited about nature and wildlife.

Jim has been on visitation and speaking tours internationally, most recently in Australia, where he visited schools both public and private and spoke to literacy experts about the Explorer programme, a 21st century classroom resource for literacy and environmental education.

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