literacy is not enough
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Literacy is not Enough- 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital AgeTRANSCRIPT
IRC- II Seminar 3 Presented by
J.K.Saini – M.Tech ET- Sem. II
My reflection on learning from reading of the book ..
“ Literacy is not enough”
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Title of the book – Literacy is not enough
BY
LEE CROCKETT JAN JUKES ANDREW CHURCHES
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IN THE HEART OF A TEACHER IS A STUDENT
• “ A teacher can never truly teach unless she is learning herself. A lamp can never light another flame unless it continue to burn its own flame.”
Robindernath Tagore ( 1861-1941) Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature
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21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age
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School Smart V/s Street Smart Kids
School Smart Kids• High achiever students • Can do well in exams • Possess necessary skills to
effectively cram for tests and write the answers.
• Inadequately prepared for life
Street Smart kids• High level of thinking • Posses competencies to live
and work in real world beyond school
• Solve real life problems in real time
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School smart + Street Smart
• We are to help students to be both School Smart and Street Smart
Their success in work and life depends upon their ability to apply old information and new information to new situations, problems and environment.
“ our students must not need us by the time they graduate from school”
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In a traditional classroom, 80 to 85 % of the work that students do in class is focussed on factual recall and lower level thinking procedure
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Our school structures –some facts
• Our schools were designed for the era in which three quarters of population were employed in agriculture and manufacturing jobs.
• Today three quarter of the workforce are working in creative class and service class professions. If we want our students to survive in the culture and the workplace of 21st Century,
….. “literacy is not enough”• .
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Literacy is not enough ….21st Century learning environment will provide students with most in demand skills, those that cannot be easily outsourced, automated, or turned into software . These skills are • Creativity,• Lateral thinking,• Problem solving • Dealing with non-routine
cognitive tasks.
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Some facts
• 50,000 factories closed in the U.S in the past 20 years .( Change in technology and the nature of work)
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Achieving Street Smart and School Smart
• We need a major shift in the existing educational paradigm. This shift demands that we rethink – The design of our school, our classrooms, and our
learning environment.– Rethink about our instructional design, – What constitute learning ? and – What it means to be intelligent?– How we assess and evaluate students ?
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Basic Traditional Literacy Skills-Three Rs
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Writing and
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21st Century Literacy Skills
• In the information media age our students should have skills of• Information processing• Critical thinking• Problem solving • Use of new technologies• Understand the Principles of graphic
deign, video and sound production, photo editing and imaginary storytelling
• Competence with social networking • Online communication and • Digital citizenship
These are
more than the
three Rs
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Achieving Street Smart and School Smart
21st Century Fluencies…..
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1. Solution Fluency
Define the problem – because you need to
know exactly what you are doing before you
start
Discover a solution, because planning
prevents wasted efforts
Dream up a process, one that is suitable.
Design up a process in an accurate and
detailed action plan.
Deliver by putting the plan into action in both production and
publishing the solution.
Debrief about process and results….
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6 Ds of Solution fluency
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In 21st Century, learning environment, we provide problems that are interesting and relevant to students, problems whose solution involve elements of mandated curriculum.
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Because of InfoWhelm, data is increasing dramatically, facts are becoming obsolete faster, and knowledge built on these facts is less durable. Information fluency is the ability to unconsciously interpret this avalanche of data in all formats, in order to extract the essential and perceive its significance
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Some facts-
Computing capacity is increasing at 58% annually, Telecommunication at 28 %, storage capacity in digital format at 23 %, ,
Communication capacities are doubling every 34 months
Information has been expanding at this rate for the past one decade.
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Information Fluency- The process
Ask good questions, in order to get good answers
Acquire multiple sources and types of information
Analyse, authenticate and arrange the information
Apply knowledge- to convert the vision into practice
Assess the process and results- which is both a teacher and student practice
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How artistic proficiency adds meaning through design, art, and storytelling. We are all creative people. This means that creativity can be taught and learned like any other skill. It’s a whole brain process that involves both hemispheres working together
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Creative Fluency-the process
Identify problem and the desired outcome.
Inspire yourself through seeking
information, ideas, connections etc
Interpolate (find patterns) in the information
Imagine what is possible
Inspect idea – evaluate and
assess
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Media Fluency In our multimedia world, communication has moved far beyond the realm of text. Our visual learning capacity needs stimulation with rich media from a variety of different sources. Media fluency means being an effective consumer and producer of digital contents.
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Media Fluency-its components
• To the message – verbalize and verify
• To the medium – the form, flow and alignment
Listen
• The message – content and outcome• The medium – audience, ability and
criteriaLeverage
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Collaboration Fluency Collaboration Fluency
is team-working proficiency characterized by the unconscious ability to work cooperatively with both real and virtual partners to solve real and simulated problems
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Collaboration Fluency- the process
• the group, norms, roles, responsibilities, etcEstablish • the purpose and outcomeEnvision • The workable plan to achieve the goal.Engineer • By the putting the plan into action.Execute • the process and outcomeExamine
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Global Digital Citizen
We have become elevated to the status of global citizens, both socially and as a workforce. As such, we need to understand that we must be able to communicate and collaborate with people of other cultures, both in person and in virtual environment.Learning shifts from the teacher to the student. And they are accountable for their learning.
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Global Digital Citizenship
Respect themselves
Protect themselves
Respect others
Protect others
Respect intellectual
propertyProtect intellectual
property
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Principles of a Student’s Digital Citizenship contract
Learning shifts from the teachers to the students and they should be accountable for their Learning
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Essential pedagogical guidelines for 21st Century Learning?
Make it sticky - The new information must connect to what the learner already knows
Repeat - often - in different formats to allow multiple opportunities to understand.
Give positive feedback - frequently
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How do I develop these fluencies in my students ?
Give them a project based assignment ( Solution Fluency)
Allow them to use all sources for search ( Information Fluency)
Allow them to use their own ingenuity to present the final outcome ( Creativity Fluency)
Make groups and allow sharing of information (collaboration)
Advise them not to copy paste the work of others –rather take guidelines from the good work of others, respect diversity of culture, religion and language ( global Citizens)
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References
www.fluency21.comwww.google.com ( for select images)
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