Resources
Resouces for the New 15-20 Year Old Reader and Writer
Created for IFLA 2014 Lyon
By Blanche Woolls and David V. Loertscher
blanche.woolls@sjsu.edu and reader.david@gmail.com
Background: Watch this TED talk about innovation. Literacy needs this fellow's thinking: http://www.ted.com/talks/toby_shapshak_you_don_t_need_an_app_for_that?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=image__2014-03-13
Ideas: An idea from the field: A high school teacher in Newtown Connecticut (USA) had students use storytelling to cope with the tragedy there using novels and writing to help his students cope with the mass shooting in nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School. First students read a Colum McCann novel about the World Trade Center attacks. Then they worked with Narrative 4, a nonprofit, to write their personal stories and read the work of their peers in the first person.
Examples:
Clubs. Form your own TEDed groups into writing clubs: http://ed.ted.com/clubs
Organization: Worldreader’s mission: We’re a global non-profit headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Europe and Africa, on a mission to eradicate illiteracy among the world’s poorest people. Here’s how we do it: We start early using e-readers in primary schools where if kids fall behind, they almost never catch up. Kids begin reading thousands of local stories together with great international books that we’ve curated into the largest most culturally relevant libraries of books. Our rapid scaling capacity is the most effective and inexpensive way to eradicate illiteracy globally. And the results are staggering: In less than 5 months children show significant improvement in fluency and can continue to access our content via our mobile phone app available to 80% of the developing world via feature phones—helping people make decisions, learn, grow, and change lives. http://www.worldreader.org
Possible Organization: IDEO's work in Peru and other countries. https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-08-13-what-a-peruvian-school-designed-by-ideo-looks-like?utm_source=EdsurgeLive&utm_campaign=40cea99c69-Innovate+184&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0f1ec25b60-40cea99c69-291804001
Organization: From New.Pages comes a list of venues for young writers: http://www.newpages.com/npguides/young_authors_guide.htm
Organization: Wikimini.org seems to be a mini Wikipedia in French and Swedish at: http://wikimini.org/
Organization: Vikidia.org is a miniature Wikipedia in a number of languages that kids can contribute: https://www.vikidia.org/
Tools: Six iPad Apps for Creative Writing: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/ipad-apps-for-creative-writing-monica-burns?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=051414%20enews%20techtools%20remainder&utm_content=&utm_term=feature2hed&spMailingID=8592033&spUserID=MjcyOT10OD14MzcS1&spJobID=301483560&spReportid=MzAxNDgzNTYwS0
Tools: Here is a list of publishing tools you can contribute to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p_rXxzoDLgns4IlwM2--SePzqH7QQRXlqZCR8FiIL1A/edit
Tools: Richard Byrne's list of Four Ways Young People can Create Magazines: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/05/four-ways-for-students-to-create.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=freetech4teachers#.U_V_Oqi0Yyk