Literacy & Learning
in the 21st Century
Rebooting the Basics
Stop Integrating Technology!
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Critically evaluate 

Organize

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http://davidwarlick.com/handouts/
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Preparing a Workforce that could work...
In straight rows,
Performing repetitive tasks,
Under close supervision!
http://davidwarlick.com/sl/
We are preparing 
our children
for a future we 
can not clearly 
describe!
Literacy
Reading
Arithmetic
Writing
Reading Means
250 sets of Encyclopedia
Britannicas,
in less than a second
Ethical Use of Information...
Writing expands into...
..and what do we have left?
And this is exactly
what we know
about the future
we are preparing our children for...

almost nothing
Able to accomplish goals by communicating with:
Text,
Images,
Sound,
Video, and
Animation
Session Tags:
redefine
literacy
warlick
Reading
Arithmetic
Writing
..cost the world $50 billion dollars in 2005 (U.S. $19b).
Expected to double in 2007 (U.S. $35b).
According to the Copenhagen Consensus

We could bring HIV/AIDS under control for $27 billion.
Respecting:
Information ownership
Information accuracy, and
Information infrastructure
Backchannel:
Exposing what's true
Employing the information
Expressing ideas compellingly
Expressing Ideas Compellingly
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It's
Scary?
Exposing What's True!
Contemporary Literacy
Contemporary Literacy
   xposing What's True
   mploying the Information
   xpressing Ideas Compellingly
   ..Within an    thical Context
How do we do it?
It Starts with Us!
Conclusion?
Redefine Literacy, so that it reflects
today's information environment,

..and integrate that!
 
Backchannel at:
http://knitterchat.com/byron
http://knitterchat.com/byron
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   Compellingly
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The illiterate of 
the 21st century
will not be those
who cannot read
and write,
But those who cannot
learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler
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David Warlick
The Landmark Project
http://landmark-project.com
http://xrl.in/2hl7
The Future of the
Black
Roasted
Brown
Coriander
Sage
Sameple Transcript: http://xrl.in/2psn
Desktop
The desk in the demo was a multitouch surface computer, and the office's walls were also a display that could easily switch from being a virtual window or collection of digital photos to a corkboard of sticky notes or various workspaces. 
Craig Mundie
Research & Strategy Officer
Microsoft
More than a dozen
numbers
All Information is Numbers
All Information is Numbers
Numbers are the
mechanism
Arithmetic Explands into...
Employing Information
Working the information
by working the numbers
that define it.
Adding value to:
Numbers
Text
Images
Audio
Video
Animation
Writing -- A Market Skill?
But, what does
too much information
mean?
The Internet is Growing in...
LiterReboot Literacy
Hologram-like videoconferencing, 
Virtual digital assistant, 
Multiple surface computers, 
Voice-, touch- and gesture-recognition. 
"The real question is what killer apps [will mark the] new era and what will be the user interface that people use to get at them," Mundie said.