Lowercase
- set of literacies required by a specific technology and its social practices
- the discipline of understanding online symbols and signs
Uppercase
- Identifies the internet as this generation's defining technology for literacy learning
- Requires multiple points of view
- Strategic knowledge is required
- New social practices are required
"To be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new. The need to conduct research and to produce and consume media is embedded into every aspect of today's curriculum." (CCSS, n.d., p. 4).
Bibliography
Gambrell, L.B. & Morrow, L.M. (Eds.). (2015).
Best practices in literacy instruction. New
York, NY: Guilford Press.
The Ultimate Guide To Facebook Login | SocialTimes. (n.d.).
Retrieved October 21, 2016, from http://
www.adweek.com/socialtimes/grovo-facebook-
login-guide/396781.
Use New Literacies to help the last student become the first
Search Education – Google. (n.d.). Retrieved October 21, 2016,
from https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/insidesearch/
searcheducation/index.html.
Teach Online
Search Skills
"This is a powerful principle that positions weaker readers as experts...Unfortunately... struggling readers frequently are denied acces to online experiences because their offline literacy skillsa re thought to be insufficient to permit success" (Castek, Zawlinski, McVerry, O'Byrne, & Leu, 2011, as quoted in Gambrell & Morrow, 2015, p. 351).
Teach New Literacies
as early as possible
A New Literacy: Making Connections in Electronic. (n.d.).
Retrieved October 21, 2016, from http://www.youtube.com.
"If one cannot locate information online, it becomes very hard to solve a problem with online information and to learn in online spaces." (Gambrell & Morrow, 2015, p. 352)
"...use online resources to teach offline reading skills..."
(Gambrell & Morrow, 2015, p. 351)
Google "Inside Search"
"One Click" activity
The Evolution of Apple. (n.d.). Retrieved October
21, 2016, from http://gadgetadvisor.com/
infographics/the-evolution-of-apple-
infographic.
Develop "Healthy Skeptics"
Continuous Learning
"'We seek to raise a generation of students who always question the information they read for reliability and accuracy."' (Gambrell & Morrow, 2015, p. 353)
Build an online support system by keeping a list of tools and sharing tools you use
Best Practices
Reverse Wikipedia
Source Plus
Create an "Expert Board" recognizing students for skills they demonstrate so they can help others
Integrate Online Communication
Internet Reciprocal Teaching for 1-to-1
Monitor laptop use
- Create authentic reading and writing experiences by allowing students to connect through email
Collaborative Online Learning Experiences with Partners around the World
Use Performance-Based Assessments
Use informal observations
Use "Think-Alouds" during online searches
CCSS (2012) Correlations
Online Research and Comprehension
How does being "online" change research and comprehension needs?
Changes in ELA Standards of CCSS
- Greater focus on reading informational texts
- Higher-level thinking is emphasized
- Digital literacies integrated throughout ELA
- Online reading comprehension is embedded within a problem-solving task
- Reading and writing are intertwined by communicating with others and share interpretations
- New technologies such as search engines, browsers, wikis, blogs, email, etc. are required
Though the word "internet" does not appear in reading standards, it does appear in writing standards.
"What's the Point of View?"
Reading Anchor Standard 6
Are we doing a good job instructing in online reading? What are the barriers
to success?
- Informational text
- Infer information from search result listings
- Discussion
- Which of these sites is an advertisement?
- What evidence in the text supports that?
- Narrative text
- Setting, events, problems, solutions, characters
- Discussion
- What do you think will happen next?
- What evidence in the text supports that?
- Informational text
- Evaluate website reliability based on the source
- Discussion
- What point of view does this site's author bring to the topic?
- Do other sites offer different perspectives on the same topic?
- Narrative text
- Teach about various characters' perspectives
- Discussion
- Can you retell this situation from the mother's point of view?
- What words in the text suggest that this is told in first person?
(Gambrell & Morrow, 2015, p. 349)
"In a context where anyone may
publish anything, higher-level thinking skills such as critical evaluation of source material become especially important online."
(Gambrell & Morrow, 2015, p. 346)
(Gambrell & Morrow, 2015, p. 346)
"One might even suggest that, over a lifetime, learning how to learn New Literacies is more important than learning a specific literacy of reading or writing." (Gambrell & Morrow, 2015, p. 344)
(Credit: Adweek, 2012)
(Credit: Irfan Ahmad, 2015)
What are "New Literacies "
Puts all the lowercase findings together
Script and Narration by Frank Romanelli
Animation by Michael McCarthy
The New Literacies