PPT designed for a Literacy Conference

1. Web 2.0 Tools for 21 Literacy 06/03/09 Dr. Ludmila Smirnova, Ph. D MSMC

4. 06/03/09 Dr. Ludmila Smirnova, Ph. D MSMC Today's Sputnik? It's a little bigger. It's called China… The projected growth in high-technology products from there is staggering. Michael Lubell, Science Policy Analyst The American Physical Society

5. 06/03/09 Dr. Ludmila Smirnova, Ph. D MSMC 84% of 11-13 year olds said they would “ rather clean their room, eat their vegetables, go to the dentist or take out the garbage than learn math or science .” From Rayethon Corporation Survey of 1000 11-13 year old students, 2006 US 15-year-olds ranked 24th out of 40 countries that participated in a 2003 administration of the program for International Student Assessment (PISA) examination, which assessed students’ ability to apply mathematical concepts to real world problems.

6. 06/03/09 Dr. Ludmila Smirnova, Ph. D MSMC This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education… … whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can't think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad or speak a language other than English. Time Magazine, 12/18/2006

9. 06/03/09 Dr. Ludmila Smirnova, Ph. D MSMC Reading Writing Speaking Mathematical Technological/ Media Informational Visual 21 st Century Literacies Multicultural

11. 06/03/09 Dr. Ludmila Smirnova, Ph. D MSMC One of the solutions: Web 2.0?

14. 06/03/09 Dr. Ludmila Smirnova, Ph. D MSMC All Web 2.0 tools and Services provide a higher level of connectedness, they are democratic, have a participatory character – encourage active involvement, provide social networking, productivity, collaboration, stimulate creativity, involve the feedback , etc. It Provides the user with the FREE tools that possess all above mentioned features and meet all personal needs of the user: e-mail, calendar, note-taking, images, video, search, web page creator, gtalk , etc. a tool that allows you to keep track of things you have to do and remind you of the list via cell.

17. 06/03/09 Dr. Ludmila Smirnova, Ph. D MSMC Social Media/Audio-visual Creativity Tools Flickr http://flickr.com/photos/milasunshine/ Photobucket Scrapblog Jumpcut http://www.jumpcut.com Letterpop Storytelling Technologies: Voicethread, Photostory3 Animoto

18. 06/03/09 Dr. Ludmila Smirnova, Ph. D MSMC Web 2.0 Technologies: Tools Social Media/Teaching Jing CamStudio Screencastomatic Communication Tools WiZiQ Skype Sightspeed Mikogo

19. 06/03/09 Dr. Ludmila Smirnova, Ph. D MSMC Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning Epsilen My e-folio DIGIcation