Michigan’sMichigan’sMISSION POSSIBLE:MISSION POSSIBLE:

Get ALL Adolescents Literate Get ALL Adolescents Literate and Learningand Learning

Presented byPresented by Elaine Weber, Macomb RLTCElaine Weber, Macomb RLTC

Patti Loper, Charlevoix-Emmett RLTCPatti Loper, Charlevoix-Emmett RLTCBetty Burke Coduti, Upper Peninsula RLTCBetty Burke Coduti, Upper Peninsula RLTC

Bill Devers, Oakland RLTCBill Devers, Oakland RLTC

“Imagine a world in which every single person on

the planet Is given free access to the sum

of all human knowledge.”

Jimmy Wales, Founder of WikipediaWired January 2008

Michigan’s Michigan Michigan’s Michigan PossiblePossible

Now, imagine a state where every single adolescent has the literacy skills necessary to acquire the knowledge.

Michigan RLTC Directors

Economy of Abundance Economy of Abundance and Choiceand Choice

• More cars than drivers• 1200 different kinds of jam• KitchenAid choice of 50 colors• Amazon has 3.5 million book titles• Over a thousand different LEGO products• Supermarkets consider 15,000 new

products each year.

The Long Tail

Media Example

Abundance of InformationAbundance of Information

482,000 sites for striving readers196,000 sites for adolescent literacy311,000 sites for writing across the

curriculum663,000 sites for reading across the

curriculum6,090,000 sites writing in the content area7,460,000 sites reading in the content area

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Functional Literacy Instruction Generating Higher-Level Thinking

Comprehension GameComprehension Game

Comprehension StrategiesComprehension Strategies

Idea OrganizerIdea OrganizerOn Demand Persuasive Writing

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• We are all spiders working together to

create a huge web of information- we are all

contributing, sharing and collaborating

together on the platform of WEB2.0.

The Abundance in EducationThe Abundance in Education

Scarcity Teacher is the sole source

of the information

Learning is done from 8 to 3, Monday to Friday, September to June

Fixed and stable curriculum

Instruction Generic

Abundance Information can be found

everywhere

Learning is 24/7

Dynamic and changing curriculum

Instruction Differentiated