EDUC 323D: Building and Enhancing New Literacies PDF

EDUC 323D: Building and Enhancing New - ability to under health information Literacies Across the Curriculum h. Civic Literacy - awareness of how government works as well Dr. Jenelyn T. Pena, EdD...

EDUC 323D: Building and Enhancing New - ability to under health information Literacies Across the Curriculum h. Civic Literacy - awareness of how government works as well Dr. Jenelyn T. Pena, EdD as your rights and responsibilities as a citizen and voter Lesson 1: What is Literacy? 3. Emergent Literacy Literacy - learning literacy - Ability to identify, understand, - begin at very early age interpret,create, communicate and compute - define as reading and writing of young using printed and written materials children associated with varying contexts. - Involves continuum of learning in enabling 4. Basic Literacy and Skills individuals,to achieve their goals , to skills of reading, writing and numeracy develop their knowledge and potential and to participate fully in their community and How does the brain acquire basic literacy skills? wider society (UNESCO 2017) a. Phonics - sounds Three Key Features of Literacy b. Fluency - Means of communication - Accurate, quickly - Literacy is plural c. Vocabulary - Involves continuum of learning - words d. Comprehension KINDS OF LITERACY - Proficient reader 1. The Traditional Literacy - teach the basic literacy Illiteracy - Use of thumbmark 2. Functional Literacy - Dependent on others - refers to the practical skills set needed to - Coping with the timees read,write and do math for real-life purposes,so people can function effectively in their community. Lesson 2: 21st Century Education - Kinds of Functional Literacy: 1. 21st Century Education a. Media Literacy - ability to access, evaluate the different types - Education prepares students for life in this of medias world. Amidst emerging social issues and b. Religious Literacy concerns, there is a need for students to be - ability to interpret religious scriptures and able to communicate, function and create communicate with different faith change personally, socially, economically c. Financial Literacy and politically at the local, national and - ability to manage finances and decisions global levels by participating in real-life and about money real-world service-learning projects. d. Computer Literacy - Emerging technologies and resulting - ability to know about the computers globalization also provides unlimited e. Legal Literacy possibilities for exciting discoveries and - ability to comprehend laws so you are able developments. to follow policies and legal procedures f. Scientific Literacy - Schools in the 21st century focus on a - memorizing facts project-based curriculum for life that would - knowing how to conduct experiment engage students in addressing real-world g. Health Literacy problems and humanity concerns and issues.  - This has become an innovation in education, project-based and integrated with skills and from textbook-driven, teacher-centered, competencies. paper-and-pencil schooling into a better understanding of the concept of knowledge - Learning is not confined through and a new definition of the educated person. memorization of facts and figures alone, but rather is connected to previous knowledge, - Teachers will transform their role from personal experience, interests, talents and being dispensers of information to becoming habits. facilitators of learning and help students translate information into knowledge and 3. 21st Century Learning Environment knowledge into wisdom. - Therefore, the 21st century will require - Classrooms with 21st Century learning knowledge generation, not just information environments are well-equipped with delivery, and schools will need to create a computer hardware, software, electronic "culture of inquiry". whiteboards and rich digital and online curricular resources. “Learners will become adaptive to change” - It is a learning environment where students collaborate with their peers, exchange These changes have implications for Teachers: insights, coach and mentor one another and 1. Teachers must discover student interest by share talents and skills with other students. helping them see what and how they are learning to prepare them for life in the real The 21st Century Learning Environment world. - Cooperative learning in which students work 2. They must instill curiosity, which is in teams because cooperation is given more fundamental to lifelong learning. emphasis than competition, and 3. They must be flexible in how they teach collaborative learning more than isolated 4. They must excite learners to become more learning. They use technologies, including resourceful so that they will continue to Internet Systems and other platforms. learn outside formal school. Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge - It is a theory that was developed to explain 2. 21st Century Curriculum the set of knowledge that teachers need to teach their students a subject, teach - The twenty-first century curriculum has effectively. and use technology. critical attributes that are interdisciplinary, - TPACK is an essential part of the education project-based and research driven. It is system today as it incorporates the growing connected to local, national and global demand on the use of technology in the communities, in which students may classroom as well as continuing the focus on collaborate with people around the world in the content and how we teach it. various projects. The curriculum also integrates higher-order thinking skills, multiple intelligences, technology and multimedia, multiple literacies and authentic assessments, including service-learning. - The classroom is filled with self-directed students, who work independently and interdependently. The curriculum and instruction is imbued with the concept of differentiation. Thus, instead of focusing on textbook-driven or fragmented instruction, instruction turns to be more thematic, An Ideal Physical Learning Environment: 8-18) spend on electronic media an average of six hours a day. In addition, many are - Plenty of wall space and other areas for multitasking, such as listening to music like displaying student work surfing the web or instant-messaging friends - Space/ place where parents and the while playing a video game. community can gather to watch student - The pre-schoolers easily navigate electronic performance multimedia resources on games, in which - Is well-ventilated, spacious, and adequately they learn colors, number, letters, spelling lighted and makes possible re-arrangement and more complex tasks, such as mixing of chairs as the need arises. basic colors to create new colors, problem- - Classrooms should be free from odors and solving activities, and reading. visual displays (that are too distracting). - However, as Dr. Michael Wesch points out, although today's students understand how to 4. Technology in the 21st Century Pedagogy access and utilize these tools, they use them only for entertainment purposes. - 21st century learning recognizes full access to technology. Therefore, a better 6. 21st Century Skills Outcome and the bandwidth of WIFI access should be Demands in the Job Market available along areas of the school for the students to access their files and supplement The 21st Century skills are a set of abilities that their learning inside the classroom. students need to develop to succeed in the - Various laboratories and learning centers information age. are set up in such a way that they allow a The Partnership for 21st Century Skills lists three space needed for students' simulation and types: manipulative works. - All classrooms should have televisions to 1.Learning Skills watch broadcasts created by the school - Critical thinking around. - Creative thinking - Other resources in the school can also be - Collaborating utilized by students in creating opportunities - Communicating for their knowledge explorations. 2.Literacy Skills - Information literacy 5. Understanding the 21st Century Learners - Media Literacy - Technology literacy 3. Life Skills - Flexibility - Initiative - Social Skills - Productivity - Leadership 7. The 21st Century Learning Implications - 21st century skills are viewed as relevant to - Students' entire lives have been immersed in all academic areas and the skills may be 21st century media culture. They take the taught in a wide variety of both in-campus world via a filter of computing devices, and community settings. such as cellular phones, handheld gaming - Schools and teachers should use variety of devices, personal digital assistants, and applied skills, multiple technologies, and laptops plus the computers, TVs, and game new ways of analyzing and processing consoles at home. information, while also taking initiative, - A survey by Henry J. Kaiser Family thinking creatively, planning out the Foundation found that young people (ages  process, and working collaboratively in teams with other students. - Schools may allow students to pursue alternatives in which students can earn Emotional Environment academic merits and satisfy graduation Before 21st 21st Century requirements by completing internship, Century Education: apprenticeship or volunteer experience. Education: - Students need to be taught how to process, analyse and use the information and they “Discipline “No discipline problems” - problems" - need adaptable skills that they can apply in educators do not students and all facets of life. trust students and teachers have - Merely teaching them ideas and facts vice versa. No mutually respectful without teaching them how to use them in student motivation. relationships as co- real-life settings is no longer enough. learners, students are highly 8. A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century motivated. Educations Little to no student Great deal of freedom student freedom Physical Environment Low expectations. High expectations Before 21st 21st Century What students that students Century Education: receive is what they succeed in learning Education: get. to a high extent. Cemetery Method No rows - Curriculum/School Curriculum is - students are in classrooms have a is irrelevant and connected to rows, very quiet and variety of learning meaningless to the students' interests, very still. spaces, multi- students experiences, talents purposed, in which and the real world. students move about freely. Students just follow Students are orders and empowered to lead Learners work in Learners work instructions while and initiate while isolation. collaboratively. listening to the creating solutions teacher's lecture. and solving Classroom is within Classroom expands problems. 4 walls. to campus itself, then to the Print is the primary Performance, community, from vehicle of learning projects and local to global. The and assessment multiple forms of Global Classroom. media are used for learning and Teacher centered: Student centered: assessment. teacher is the center teacher is of attention and facilitator/coach. provider of Students use information. information they 9. The Critical Attributes of 21st Century have located to Education construct their knowledge and 1. Integrated and Interdisciplinary understanding. - This critical attribute implies the need to Teacher controls Students are self review the curriculum and create strategies everything the directed, moving infusing different subjects toward enhancing students do (or at from independent the learning experiences of students. least attempts to do activities to 2. Technologies and Multimedia so.) interdependent activities as needed. - Education in the 21st century makes optimum use of available Information and  Communication Technology (ICT), as well that teachers should possess these skills first as multimedia to improve the teaching and before their students. learning process, including online 7. Project-Based and Research-Driven applications and technology platforms. It - 21st century education emphasizes data, implies a need to acquire and use computers information and evidence-based decision- and multimedia equipment and the design of making through student activities that a technology plan to enhance learning at its encourage active learning. This implies the best. need for knowledge and skills in research, 3. Global Classrooms such as self-directed activities, learning - Education in the 21st century aims to projects, investigatory projects, capstones produce global citizens by exposing students and other research-based output. to the issues and concerns in the local, 8. Relevant, Rigorous and Real World national and global societies. This critical - Education in the 21st century is meaningful attribute implies the need to include current as it connects to real-life experiences of global issues/concerns, such as peace and learners. It implies the use of current and respect cultural diversity, climate change relevant information linked to real-life and global warming in classroom situations and contexts. discussions. 10. The Characteristics of a 21st Century 4. Creating/Adapting to Constant Personal and Teacher Social Change and Lifelong Learning - Education in the 21st Century subscribes to 21st Century Teachers are characterized as: the belief that learning does not end within 1. Multi-literate the four walls of the classroom. Instead, it - Teachers know how to use various can take place anywhere, anytime regardless technologies in teaching. of age. This meant that teachers should 2. Multi-specialist facilitate students' learning even beyond - Teachers are not only knowledgeable in the academics. course subject they teach but also in other - Therefore, it should not end with areas so that they can help the learner build requirement compliance and passing the up what they gain in the classroom and exams, but also transferring and applying outside the school and make sense of what knowledge to a new context or real-life was learned. situations. 3. Multi-skilled 5. Student-Centered - Teachers cope with the demand for - Education in the 21st century is focused on widening learning opportunities by being students as learners while addressing their skillful not just in teaching but also in needs. Differentiated instruction is relevant facilitating and organizing groups and in the 21st century classrooms, where activities. diversity factors and issues are taken into account and addressed when planning and 4. Self-directed delivering instruction, including their - Teachers are responsible for various aspects learning styles, interests, needs and abilities. of school life and know how to initiate 6. 21st Century Skills action to realize the learning goals of the - Education in the 21st century demonstrates students and the educational goals of the the skills needed in becoming productive country, at large. members of society. Beyond learning the 5. Lifelong learner basic skills of reading, writing and - Teachers embrace the ideal that learning numeracy, students should also develop life never ends. Therefore, teachers must be and work skills in 21st century communities, constantly updated on the latest information such as critical and creative thinking, related to their subject and pedagogic problem-solving and decision making and trends. They should also share what they are ICT literacy and skills. Therefore, it implies  learning with their students and colleagues in immediate and idiosyncratic directions. with a high sense of professionalism. Hypermedia adds sound, video, animation, 6. Flexible and/or virtual reality environments to the - Teachers are able to adapt to various user's choices. learning styles and needs of the learners. 5. Podcasts They can facilitate learner-centered - These are digitized audio files that are stored teaching with flexibility using alternative on the Internet and downloaded to listeners' modes of delivery. computers or most likely to MP3 players. 7. Creative problem solver The term "podcast" comes from the iPod, - Teachers create innovative ideas and the popular MP3 player. effective solutions to the arising problems in the field, be it in the classroom, in the 6. Web 2.0 school or the profession as a whole. - This refers to a second generation of Web- 8. Critical thinker based communities that demonstrate the - Teachers are critical thinkers as they participatory literacies that students need for encourage students to reflect on what they the 21st-century. have learned, and rekindle in them the 7. Myspace desire to ask questions, reason out, probe, - It is a social networking website that offers and establish their own knowledge and an interactive user-submitted network of belief. friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, 9. Has a passion for excellent teaching photos, music and videos internationally. - Teachers possess passion in the teaching Students can rate professors, discuss books, profession to ensure that students are and connect with high school and college motivated to learn under their guidance and classmates here. care. 8. Second Life 10. High Emotional Quotient (EQ) - It is an internet-based 3D virtual world that - Teachers do not just have the head but also uses avatars (digital representations) to the heart to teach. Teaching is emotionally explore, socialize, participate in individual taxing but an influential job as it involves or group activities, create and trade items interaction with human beings. (virtual property) and services. 9. Semantic Web - It is an extension of the current Web that 11. Common 21st Century Technology Tools puts data into a common format so that for Learning instead of humans working with individual search engines (e.g., Google, Ask Jeeves) to The following are common 21st Century locate information, the search engines Technology Tools: themselves feed into a single mechanism 1. Affinity Group that provides this searching on its own. - a group of people linked by a common - The no. 1 web search engine Google already interest or purpose. incorporated semantics to improve search 2. Blogs accuracy. By understanding searchers' intent - Web logs or "blogs" are interactive and the contextual meaning of terms as they websites, often open to the public that can appear in the searchable data space the include Web links, photographs and audio company is able to generate more relevant and video elements. results. 3. E-portfolio 10. Webkinz - It refers to student's works that are - It is an internet simulation wherein children generated. selected, organized, stored and learn pet care and other skills. revised digitally. 11. Wiki 4. Hypertext - It refers to a software that fosters - These are electronic texts that provide collaboration and communication online. multiple links and allow users to trace ideas Wiki enables students to create, comment  upon, and revise collaborative projects. One of the most prominent is Wikipedia, an online multilingual free-content encyclopedia. 12. Youtube - It is a popular website for video sharing where users can upload, view and share video footage, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, even student- produced videos. 13. Google Docs - It allows students to collaborate with other people and the document materials that need to be compiled, processed. transacted and analyzed. 14. Prezi - It allows individuals to use pre-made, creative presentation templates. 15. Easybib - It allows individuals to generate citations in any given format. 16. Social Media platforms - These are means to communicate and share ideas among users. 17. Smartboards and audience response systems - These are replacement for traditional chalkboards or whiteboards in classrooms. 18. ReadWriteThink.org - It is a repository of standards-based literacy lessons that offer teachers instructional ideas for internet integration. 19. WebQuest Page - It provides Webquests on an array of topics across content areas with a template for creating one's own.