This conversation given at Educon 2.3 in Philadelphia, PA by David Jakes and Laura Deisley. Resources can be found at jakes.editme.com/johnny

1. Why Johnny Can’t Read: A Conversation About What It Means to Be Literate...Today Laura Deisley and David Jakes

2. In 140 characters or less, why did you choose this session?

3. How do you define literacy?

4. Do you see the Internet (and Web 2.0) as “a context in which to read, write, and communicate?” Leu et. al 2009 “Being literate in a real-world sense means being able to read and write using the media forms of the day, whatever they may be…” Ohler 2009

5. Do you see the Internet (and Web 2.0) as “a context in which to read, write, and communicate?” Leu et. Al 2009

6. Digital Literacy: the ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented from computers. Paul Gilser1997

7. Digital Literacy: a shorthand for the myriad social practices and conceptions of engaging in meaning making mediated by texts that are produced, received, distributed and exchanged via digital codification. Lankshear and Knobel 2008

9. Do you read differently?

10. Reading? Instapaper, Readability, Diigo, Evernote, Twitter, Posterous, Google Reader and Earth, Book Glutton, Zooburst…

11. Via Wired.com, Life on Earth Project, E.O Wilson Foundation

12. “The medium is the message…” Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964

14. So McLuhan suggests: Does the medium change the very nature of literacy or merely expand the means by which we convey ideas?

15. Transliteracy: the ability to read, write, and interact across a range of platforms and tools from orality through print, TV, radio and film, to networked digital media. Via Transliteracy.com

16. What does it mean today to be functionally literate?

17. What is essential for schools? Image from opentrolley.com

18. What is your definition of literacy now?

19. What is your personal take-awayand take-back that you will share?