Tinkering Towards Fluency: Digital Literacy for All
1. Tinkering Towards Fluency:
Digital Literacy for All
Edina Back-to-School Kick Off
August 28, 2012
Candance Doerr-Stevens
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5. tinker (v)
To play, fiddle, or experiment with
new materials in an unstructured
manner
6. ―Being creative is about having original
ideas, requires actual skills in the fields
in which you’re working—and an
opennes of mind, a willingness to
explore, a confidence in your
imagination, a willingness to try things
out and make mistakes and try again.‖
- Sir Ken Robinson
16. So What?
Students will be creating and managing the media
content of today and tomorrow.
Digital divide gives way to ―Participation Gap‖
Humans need to tinker and create; creativity as
vehicle to thinking and learning
17. Media Literacy
… the ability to interact with online content in four
ways: to access, to analyze, to evaluate, and to
create.
-- Sonia Livingston (2005)
… also the ability to distribute and network online
content to real audiences.
19. 4 Basic Questions
1) What content do you want your students to
explore?
2) What habits of thinking do you want your
students to practice (access, analyze,
evaluate, create)?
3) For what audience and purpose?
4) Which hardware and software best
accomplish these goals?
20. 4 Basic Questions
1) What content do you want your students to
explore?
2) What habits of thinking do you want your
students to practice (access, analyze, evaluate,
creation)?
3) For what audience and purpose?
4) Which hardware and software best
accomplish these goals?
21. 1st graders using voice recorders to
capture ―smart talk‖ about books
22. 5th Grade PSA ―Saving the Holts‖
(Via Georgia Movie Academy)
