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Presentation from the Silverstone Blogging Masterclass Conference held on the 7th December 2011.TRANSCRIPT
Bill Lord @joga5 www.lordlit.com
Key Skills in Digital Literacy
Bill Lordwww.lordlit.com
@Joga5
Digital literacy is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and analyze information using digital technology.
It involves a working knowledge of current high-technology, and an understanding of how it can be used.
Definitions
Definitions
Multiliteracies (New London Group.) • The world is becoming smaller,
communication between other cultures/languages is necessary to anyone. The usage of the English language is also being changed.
• The second way to incorporate the term multiliteracies is the way technology and multimedia is changing how we communicate.
Bill Lord @joga5 www.lordlit.com
The
Fun
Theo
ry
“something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s
behaviour for the better”
This slide was a call back to the 1990s when we all had Paul Johnson’s How to Make Books in Primary schools and used them to get children writing. The issue was that, all too often, the quality of the books outweighed the quality of the writing contained in them.
Bill Lord @joga5 www.lordlit.com
The Writing Commandments
• Children need to have writing modelled to them (on paper or electronically)• Children need to, at times and where appropriate, feel uncomfortable about the writing
process BUT TO FEEL SUPPORTED AT ALL TIMES
Key Questions
• What do you want from blogging?– What do you perceive as the benefits for the
children in your class?– What will be the focus of your blog?
• Diary• Collection of work• Entirely text based?• Using Web 2.0 materials
Potential unrecognised….
School Reports• Tolstoy: “Both unable and unwilling to
learn.”
• Louis Pasteur: “A mediocre pupil in his baccalaureate.”
• Roald Dahl: English composition. “The boy is an indolent and illiterate member of the class.”
The teaching of writing
Making explicit the internal
conversation which takes place in a writer’s mind.
Teaching how to write on a blog
• Which skills are needed?– Oracy– Planning– Drafting– Editing– Reviewing
Reading blogs
• Modelling • Timing• Maintaining
Commenting on blogs
• Who comments?• What is the language of comment?
– Is there a meta-language?
The able writer may…….• Possess a strong awareness of audience• Show an interest in the craft of writing• Be capable of writing at length while maintaining
a sense of audience, purpose and organisation• Write in original ways and experiment with styles• Summarise succinctly• Show a dislike of repetition and closed tasks• Apply reading experiences to writing tasks
Vocabulary choices
• How do you develop
• Fluffy girls versus non-descriptive boys
Some success stories
Removing Barriers to Literacy
• Expectations• Speaking and listening• Sequence, sequence, sequence