Rebooting the Basics

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Preparing a Workforce that could work...

In straight rows,

Performing repetitive tasks,

Under close supervision!

..and what do we have left?

Almost Nothing!

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9.08 Gb/s

250 sets of Encyclopedia

Britannicas,

in less than a second

• Exposing what's true
• Employing the information
• Expressing ideas compellingly

Spam

• ..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.

Stop Integrating Technology!

Redefine Literacy, so that it reflects

today's information environment,

..and integrate that!

How do we do it?

It Starts with Us!

It's

Scary?

Contemporary Literacy

xposing What's True

mploying the Information

xpressing Ideas Compellingly

..Within an thical Context

E

Conclusion?

E

• Reading
• Arithmetic
• Writing

Literacy

Contemporary Literacy

Black

Roasted

Brown

Coriander

Sage

We are preparing

our children

for a future we

can not clearly

describe!

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Session Tags:

• redefine
• literacy
• warlick

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Literacy & Learning

in the 21st Century

Rebooting the Basics

LiterReboot Literacy

David Warlick

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

The Landmark Project

http://landmark-project.com

And this is exactly

what we know

about the future

we are preparing our children for...

almost nothing

E

Reading

E

Writing

The Internet is Growing in...

E

xpose

mploy

xpress

Compellingly

thically

Respecting:

• Information ownership
• Information accuracy, and
• Information infrastructure

Using Information Ethically

Arithmetic

Reading Means

E

Exposing what's true

• Find
• Critically evaluate
• Organize
• Apply

But, what does

too much information

mean?

Writing expands into...

Writing -- A Market Skill?

Able to accomplish goals by communicating with:

• Text,
• Images,
• Sound,
• Video, and
• Animation

Express

Ideas

Compellingly

http://xrl.in/2hl7

Numbers are the

mechanism

All About Numbers

Arithmetic Expands into...

Working the information

by working the numbers

that define it.

Adding value to:

• Numbers
• Text
• Images
• Audio
• Video
• Animation

Employing the

Information

http://ve2.sl.pt