A Supermarket of Ideas NCTE 2009

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A SUPERMARKET OFIDEAS:

Strategies for K-12 Media Literacy in a ChangingInformation Age

NCTE Annual Convention

, ,Friday November 20 2009


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The confluence of popular cultureand my own identity


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Media literacy is literacy

e a c h e s t h e s a m e n a l y t i c a l m e t h o d s a s r a d i t i o n a l l i t e r a c y

i n s t r u c t i o n

- - -n s c h o o l a n d o u t o f s c h o o l i t e r a c i e s b e c o m e o n ecodesconventions

audiencepurpose

point of viewpersuasion

- -cause and effectevaluation

structures

Texting/Facebook My Space

Surfing the web Digital photography

TelevisionFilmMagazines

Graphic novels

!ore


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How can I make such claims?

Heres my argument: The ubiquitous media make a profound affect on our collective cultural

, , ,identity and when students consume, ,interpret and produce media messages

.they become more fully literate


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Overview

This K-12 Media Supermarket will unveilstrategies for 21 st century students to bridgenew and old literacies through:

BloggingPhoto StoriesWikis

Each is a tool for learning and reflection.Each offers todays youth a pathway to infuse

authentic youth life literacies into the publicschool classroom.

Each can serve as a bridge between the highwestern canon, traditional school literacy

practices, and youths out-of-school literacies.

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Pleasure + Consumption +Production: Multimodal Projects

AdvertisementAmazon.com book

reviewAmerican Memory

multimodalimagination

Blogs from beyond:a superblog

Body biography

Gallery displayGraffiti wall

Internationalnewspaper survey

Internet comic bookMusic montagePhotographic slide

showPoint of view plea

Zine!ND MORE!ND MORE


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blogging, wikis, and photostories as tools for

learning and reflection If you are able , please open an internetbrowser to the url:

:// . . /http mediasupermarket blogspot com

W e llspen d ab ou t 1 0 m in u tes.on th is b log


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Sample student artifacts that wereposted on our class blogs

://http . .thechroniclesofbetsey blogspot com

These urls are two senior posts as responses to reading Conrad's Heart .of Darkness

:// . . /http kookamooka blogspot com :// . . /http marlowbodybiography blogspot com:// - . . /http dawn musicmontage blogspot com

This url below points to a series of initial student comments as they began to investigate and make meaning around an issue of interest to

.them :// . . / . = & =https www blogger com comment g?blogID 1086386598142610206 postID 604355
http://thechroniclesofbetsey.blogspot.com/http://thechroniclesofbetsey.blogspot.com/http://thechroniclesofbetsey.blogspot.com/http://thechroniclesofbetsey.blogspot.com/http://kookamooka.blogspot.com/http://kookamooka.blogspot.com/http://marlowbodybiography.blogspot.com/http://marlowbodybiography.blogspot.com/http://dawn-musicmontage.blogspot.com/http://dawn-musicmontage.blogspot.com/https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1086386598142610206&postID=6043557622038704769https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1086386598142610206&postID=6043557622038704769https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1086386598142610206&postID=6043557622038704769http://dawn-musicmontage.blogspot.com/http://marlowbodybiography.blogspot.com/http://kookamooka.blogspot.com/http://thechroniclesofbetsey.blogspot.com/http://thechroniclesofbetsey.blogspot.com/


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Wikis:// . . / / /http www wikispaces com user view FlagsO

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lexible grouping and wikis Wikis allow students to come together and share their wealth of

.knowledge Students in groups collaborate best when they divide and.share tasks and accept equal responsibility for the final project

Ideas about ways that flexible groups can be most successful are"located on my teacher blog on the Flexible grouping at the high

"school level post at :// . . . /http www teachertoteacherblog blogspot com .

ample student arti facts Several students decided to collaborate in groups and create wikis

.as their multimodal options The following are their student.artifacts

:// . . /http chocolatewar wikispaces com DAVE:// . . /http ancientgreekpregnancy wikispaces com

:// . . /http teengossip wikispaces com

:// . . /http chocolatewar wikispaces com BRUCE

:// . . /http ancientgreekdrugrelations wikispaces com
http://www.teachertoteacherblog.blogspot.com/http://www.teachertoteacherblog.blogspot.com/http://chocolatewar.wikispaces.com/DAVEhttp://chocolatewar.wikispaces.com/DAVEhttp://ancientgreekpregnancy.wikispaces.com/http://ancientgreekpregnancy.wikispaces.com/http://teengossip.wikispaces.com/http://teengossip.wikispaces.com/http://chocolatewar.wikispaces.com/BRUCEhttp://chocolatewar.wikispaces.com/BRUCEhttp://ancientgreekdrugrelations.wikispaces.com/http://ancientgreekdrugrelations.wikispaces.com/http://ancientgreekdrugrelations.wikispaces.com/http://chocolatewar.wikispaces.com/BRUCEhttp://teengossip.wikispaces.com/http://ancientgreekpregnancy.wikispaces.com/http://chocolatewar.wikispaces.com/DAVEhttp://www.teachertoteacherblog.blogspot.com/


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Supermarket #2: discourse analysis:

YouTube, the spoken word, and newspapercomparisons via the internet

:// . .http mediasupermarket2 blogspot com /

,If you re interested bookmark the

following blog for additional ideas as meeting the needs of new literacies in-the twenty first century public school

.classroom


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Supermarket #3:

gender as a social institution

,If you re interested bookmark the following blog for

additional ideas as meeting the needs of new literacies in

-the twenty first century .public school classroom.

:// . .http mediasupermarket3 blogspot com


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(almost) Dr. Carolyns blog

I have an instructional blog this.year that I use to post assignments

It is a central location where my---students in a time of flu and

----extended absences can retrieve information from locations outside

.the school campus

. . .ww drcarolynsblog blogspot com


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QUESTION AND ANSWERSESSION

Carolyn Fortuna [email protected] Box 206, Chepachet, RI02814
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]

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A Supermarket of Ideas NCTE 2009