The document discusses merging traditional literacy teaching with digital literacies for the 21st century. It outlines how students now need to develop skills like managing multiple streams of information, creating and sharing multimedia texts, and collaborating globally. Various digital tools are presented that can complement foundational literacies like reading, writing, speaking and listening in authentic ways. Blogging, social networking, online books and podcasting are given as examples that engage students and allow them to connect beyond the classroom. The document encourages teachers to take risks with digital literacies and learn alongside students.

1. Merging the Old with the New Literacy Teaching in the 21st Century Katie Keier katieannkeier@gmail.com

3. Whatever happened to Mrs. Wishy Washy?

4. What is a comprehensive literacy approach? Foundational Literacies

6. Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally

7. Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes

8. Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information

9. Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts

10. Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments NCTE Definition of 21st Century LIteracies

11. How has your reading life changed?

12. How has your writing life changed?

13. What do your students read & write?

14. “If we teach today as we did yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” John Dewey

16. Engaging

17. Versatile

18. Challenging

20. Is what we are teaching helping our students become literate in the 21st century? Digital literacies are completely grounded in the foundations of: reading writing listening speaking

21. ReadingTo, With, and By Children

22. WritingTo, With, and By Children

23. “Kids are coming to the Web earlier and earlier, and it’s obviously very important that we prepare them for life online.” -Will Richardson

24. 21st Century Education in New Brunswick, Canada

25. Let’s play!!

26. Creators and Producers “Young learners in our schools already know technology as a toy. We need to begin the shift to technologies as tools. Making, doing, and creating are keys. We need students to be creators and producers, not just consumers.” Gail Lovely http://thejournal.com/Articles/2011/01/19/From-Toys-to-Learning-Tools-5-Questions-with-Gail-Lovely.aspx?Page=1

28. Smilebox

29. Storybird

31. Patterson’s Pack - Edublog http://mrspatterson.edublogs.org/

32. Class Blogmeister

33. Mrs. Cassidy’s Classroom Blog http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337

34. Turn and Talk What literacies would blogging support? How do you see it as part of a comprehensive literacy approach?

35. Why Blog? Blogging brings more voices into the conversation, allowing for a greater depth of thinking. Kids develop sense of voice and audience beyond the teacher. Authentic, meaningful and purposeful. Students can connect with other children around the world. What else?

37. Reflect and Refine

38. www.CatchingReaders.com

39. Social Media = Powerful Tools “The new power of social media and networking technologies is perhaps the least leveraged technology in formal education systems today. Social networking technologies are powerful tools for enhancing the process of learning to be, of defining our identities.” Stephen Wilmarth, Five Socio-Technology Trends That Change Everything in Learning and Teaching” (Curriculum 21 by Heidi Hayes Jacobs)

40. Social Networking - Facebook

41. Twitter

42. Twitter:A Personal Learning Network (PLN)

43. Turn and Talk What literacies would social networking support? How can social networking support YOU as a teacher?

44. “The Internet is this generation’s defining technology for reading.” Donald Leu

45. Toon Book Reader – Graphic Novels

46. Kidsread

47. Zooborns

48. Tumblebooks

49. Turn and Talk How is the internet redefining literacy?

50. Podcasting

51. 100 % Kids Podcasting with 2nd Graders

52. Turn and Talk How does podcasting fit into a comprehensive literacy approach?

53. “All texts require exploration, interrogation, elaboration, and interactive response modes that extend, expand, and enrich the experience of the text.” David Booth

54. Jump in!! If we wait to know all there is about digital literacies and emerging literacies before using them in our teaching – we never will. Learn alongside your students, take risks, explore and play! What will you be taking back to your classroom – to merge ‘old’ with ‘new’ literacies?