literacy in a digital age: a challenge for language teachers? turku finland august 2016
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3rd Baltic Sea – 17th Nordic LiteracyConference
14−16 August 2016 − Turku/Åbo, Finland
Making meaning – literacy in action
Jeroen Clemens Literacy in a digital age: a challenge for
language teachers?
www.jeroenclemens.nl@jeroencl; [email protected]
1. Language Teacher
2. Researcher New Literacies / Online literacy
3. Consultant/ writer/ speaker
§ Teacher trainer
§ Head Language department
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Jeroen Clemens
ability to understand, evaluate, useand engage with written texts toparticipate in society, to achieveone’s goals, and to develop one’sknowledge and potential (OECD 2013)
Print media
§ Lineair
§ Single text
§ Fixed structure
§ Textual
§ Static
§ One-way
§ Clear author
Online media
§ Non-lineair Hypertext
§ Connected texts
§ Multiple structures
§ Multimodal Multi Media
§ Flexible / Changing
§ Interactive
§ Not always clear author
Not only written texts
offline 1. Traditional print reading
2. Multi document reading: analysis & synthesis
3. Reading online: search, evaluate, synthesis & communicate
Expand definition Literacy
Expand PedagogyCho & Afflerbach, 2010
Digital natives are competent readers online?
New & aditional skills and strategies needed
Many students are not competent: see reading list
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Digital natives
Diataal (Haquebord)
ORCA Nederlands (Clemens)
eigen onderzoek
zoeken evalueren synthese
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schrijven
zoeken
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Additional competencies
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Traditional Reading test
ORCA Dutch version Clemens
§Baseline study: Language Teachers Secondary Schools (online, 309)
§Perceptions§Attitudes & believes§Knowledge & Skills §Motivation & Needs
§ 63% perceives online texts different from offline texts
§ 84% online reading comprehension asks for new skills and strategies
§ 90% students need to learn online reading comprehension skills and
§ (86%) they need education in online reading comprehension
§ 73% current curriculum is not sufficient for preparing students for online reading comprehension.
§ 75% online reading comprehension must be included in the curriculum, the common core standards (65%) and in text books / learning materials (87%).
§ There is less agreement (37%) whether online reading comprehension must become a part of the national assessment program of Dutch or on the more pedagogical question if online reading comprehension must become a separate course in textbooks (32%).
§ 70% think there is not enough attention for online reading comprehension in their current teaching materials.
§ 17% include online reading comprehension in their teaching.
§ 7% develop lessons or teaching materials for online reading comprehension
§ 84% don’t collaborate with colleagues on this topic (84%).
§ 10% think school finds online literacy important.
§ 15% positive when looking at their department (15%).
§ 18% see initiatives happening at department level
§ but it’s a tough question: a lot of teachers are neutral on this item (school: 33%, department: 50%).
§71% say they need professional development to be able to teach online literacy
§This has top priority
§Top down 5-10§National Standards, Assessment,
Publishers/Textbooks, Teacher training institutes; accessible knowledge
§ Implement in teacher training programs 3-5
§Bottom up/ now§own initiatives: school and teacher initiatives
and collaboration, teacher development teams, conferences, teacher training institutes
§Relate own curriculum/ learning goals§Connect, recognisable terminology: ‘Lets work on
Critical Reading Plus’, ‘expand search strategies to online texts’
§Target language teachers first & earlyadopters cross curriculum
§Work in teacher development teams §Co-create / use each others materials
regional and nationally§Share and collaborate online
§ Afflerbach, P., & Cho, Β. Y. (2009). Identifying and describing constructively responsive comprehension strategies in new and traditional forms of reading. In S. E. Israel & G. G. Duffy, Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension. New York: Routledge.
§ Cho, B.-Y., & Afflerbach, P. (2015). Reading on the Internet. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 58(6)
§ Castek, J., & Coiro, J. (2015). Understanding What Students Know. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 58(7)
§ Donald J Leu, J., McVerry, J. G., O'Byrne, I., Kiili, C., Zawilinski, L., Everett-Cacopardo, H., et al. (2011). The new literacies of online reading comprehension: Expanding the literacy andlearning curriculum. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 55(1).
§ Leu, D. J., Kulikowich, J. M., Sedransk, N., Coiro, J., Liu, C., Cui, W., et al. (2014). The ORCA Project: Designing Technology-based Assessments for Online Research, Comprehension, And Communication. American Educational Research Conference. Philidelphia.
§ Leu, D. J., Forzani, E., Burlingame, C., Kulikowich, J., Sedransk, N., Coiro, J., & Kennedy, C. (2013). The new literacies of online research and comprehension: Assessing and preparing students for the 21st century with Common Core State Standards. In L. B. Gambrell & S. B. Neuman, Reading instruction in the age of common core standards. Newark, DE: IRA.
§ OECD. (2011). PISA 2009 Results: Students On Line (Vol. VI, p. 395). OECD Publishing. doi:10.1787/9789264112995-en
§ OECD (2014). PISA 2012 Results: What Students Know and Can Do – Student Performance in Mathematics, Reading and Science (Volume I, Revised edition), PISA, OECD Publishing.
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