1. Virtual
Round
21st Century Skills Table
April 2012
Digital Literacies
Gavin Dudeney
&
Nicky Hockly
Slides prepared by Gavin Dudeney,
Nicky Hockly and Mark Pegrum
2. Cows give
more milk
How many when they
listen to
of these music
statements
are TRUE?
Ants don’t
A pregnant sleep
goldfish is
called a twit
3. Reading is an unnatural act; we are no
more evolved to read books than we
are to use computers. Literate
societies become literate by investing
extraordinary resources, every year,
training children to read. Now it's our
turn to figure out what response we
need to shape our use of digital tools.
Clay Shirky
6. Cows give
more milk
How many when they
listen to
of these music
statements
are TRUE? Fabulous facts
Ants don’t
A pregnant sleep
goldfish is
called a twit
http://mysterytopia.com/2008/10/bizarreoddstrangeunusual-facts.html
7. Fabulous facts
Lesson steps
How many
of these
a) Dictate 3 fabulous facts
statements
b) Pairs decide which T/F
are TRUE?
c) Research online
high tech / low tech / no tech
a) Feedback
http://mysterytopia.com/2008/10/bizarreoddstrangeunusual-facts.html
8. Fact-checking is way down; but after-
the-fact-checking is way WAY up.
Clay Shirky
13. Online me
Lesson steps
1. Reflect on content (personal info,
video, images, text, comments) for:
• family
• classmates/work colleagues
• boss (or potential future employer)
• a college or university admissions
officer
• anybody in the world
2. Create for one audience
3. Share and guess audience
14. Howard Rheingold
If you want to keep up, don't try to
keep up with the technologies. Keep
up with the literacies that the
technologies make possible.
15. Slides prepared by Gavin Dudeney,
Nicky Hockly and Mark Pegrum from
their forthcoming book: Digital
Literacies, Pearson 2012
NICKY & GAVIN
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MARK
email: mark.pegrum@uwa.edu.au
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