4. Focus on …
• Self-expression
• Life skills
• Problem posing
• Collaboration amongst learners
• Learning how to learn
• Culture
• Language awareness
5. Focus on …
• Culture
• Language
awareness
• Basic literacy
• Skill
enhancement
• Biliteracy
Source: http://tinyurl.com/h8ph9ts
6. Skills based vs. Social context
• Literacy as an individual accomplishment,
consisting of a set of skills that exist
independently of the context (setting,
situation) - phonics
• Literacy as a need of humans to communicate
and share meaning using a set of social
practices influenced by individual goals,
collective experiences, and societal values –
communication
8. Sample: ‘Making Meaning: Oral Communication
& Interactive Reading & Writing
Theme: Local Tragic Events
Instructional Aims
• Connecting background
knowledge with new
information
• Connecting learner
experience to reading and
writing
• Building comprehension
strategies (predicting from
context)
Activity
• Students watch video clips /
look at posters
• Small group discussions
(polls/votes?)
• Student watch video clips
(no sound) and predict
language used
9. Sample: ‘Making Meaning: Oral Communication
& Interactive Reading & Writing
Theme: Local Tragic Events
Instructional Aims
• Developing effective
reading strategies
• Strengthening
communication skills and
interaction strategies
• Linking everyday events
with problem solving and
literacy
Activity
• Students can look at
pictures and build a story of
tragic event
• Students discuss verbal and
non-verbal interaction using
prepared video clips
• Students role play (perhaps
emergency & rescue) and
fill in forms
10. Sample: ‘Making Meaning: Oral Communication
& Interactive Reading & Writing
Theme: Local Tragic Events
Instructional Aims
• Learner experience to
develop graphic literacy
• Linking problem solving and
communication skills
• Creating meaning through
writing and role playing
• Building background
knowledge
Activity
• Students interview each
other to find out who has
similar experiences
• Students watch critical
video and decide how
problem could be handled
choosing options
• Students create their own
videos in class (extending
role playing)
• Guest speaker invited
12. Oral Communication – 15 mins
Theme: Local tragic events (developing the
learning story)
Instructional aim: Connecting learner
experience to reading and writing
• What activity would lead to the aim?
• What technology/digital medium would you
use?
• How will you measure whether the aim has
been achieved?
13. Time to listen – 10 mins
Source: http://tinyurl.com/j4t9jps
14. Oral Communication – 15 mins
Theme: Local tragic events (following up on the
learning story)
What is the instructional aim?
What activity would lead to the aim?
What technology/digital medium would you
use?
How will you measure whether the aim has
been achieved?
15. Time to listen – 10 mins
Source: http://tinyurl.com/j4t9jps
17. Connect to Twitter – 15 mins
• Sign up on Twitter.com
• Go to search… #edchat
• Go to search…#adultedu
• Go to search…#lifelonglearning
• Go to search…#eddigera
• Go to:
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/12
/40-educational-tweeters-every-teacher.html
to follow some interesting educators.