14. 600,000 Apps
2.5 Billion People
2 Trillion Webpages
4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute
16,000 Tweets per second*
Etc...
*Japan’s 2012 New Years Celebration
26. The idea...is to reduce writing "opinion untethered to
evidence" and "decontextualized" writing—writing
not based on the reading of a text—in favor of
writing that requires students to read, comprehend,
and respond to text, grounding their interpretations
in evidence found there. That shift reflects what
young people can expect in college and work.
31. Literate 21st Century readers and writers must:
• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
• Build relationships with others to pose and solve
problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
• Design and share information for global
communities to meet a variety of purposes
• Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of
simultaneous information
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media
texts
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by
these complex environments
32. “Design and share information
for global communities
to meet a variety of purposes.”
51. My six-year-olds ARE blogging for millions of
strangers, many of whom take the time to help them
learn. “Strangers” have taken the time to comment, to
encourage and to help my students learn many things
that I could never have taught them on my own.
75. Credits:
Writing in Journal: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lecates/307250887/sizes/o/in/photostream/
In 60 Seconds: http://www.socialnomics.net/2011/12/28/infographic-every-60-seconds-on-the-web/
Focus Infographic: http://www.bestinfographics.info/focus-age-distraction/
of purposes.”