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New Literacies
New Literacies
Students are learning more about literacy outside than inside the classroom.
What of the "old" literacy needs to change to accommodate the "New" Literacies?
The Arts
The Arts
Aesthetics - Find the pretty around you
Finding "art" in the things around you - Inspirational
Builds imaginations - important in all life including lit
Looking at everything differently, makes you broaden your horizons.
See things through different perspectives - visuals, sound, touch (senses)
Multimodal Literacies
Multimodal Literacies
Modes rarely occur alone - Many Modes ( Highlights "feelings"
Breaking them apart is "arbitrary"
Presenting Info in different ways to bring out each student's strengths and their learning style preferences.
Shifting from literacy to visual also includes consideration of how people are positioned though each perspective.
It helps foster vision and problem solving it helps make them think of it differently.
New Literacies
New Literacies
New ways of using tech to learn and create, and communicate, collaborate, connect across time and space.
Stay up to date with different types of tech students are using-- so we can use these to help students bridge in-school and out-of-school experiences.
Laptop/ Computers
"Students must be Agents Rather than Victims of Text"
"Students must be Agents Rather than Victims of Text"
Students
Readers
Learners
Collaborators
Producers
School
Creators
School
Colorful
must be agents
Designers
Creators
Problem Solvers
Challengers
Ownership
Purpose
Leaders
Active
Expected
rather than Victims
Discriminations
Helpless
Forgotten
Lost
Alone
Powerless
Stuck
Discouraged
Passive
Compliant
Of Text
As educators, we need to promote the idea that students are agents and not victims.
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