Web 2.0 Literacy and Secondary Web 2.0 Literacy and Secondary Teacher Education Teacher Education

❖ Literacy in conventional classrooms

❖ Definition of literacy - how is it shaped

❖ Why classrooms - both K-12 and higher education struggle

❖ Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 (O’Reilly, 2005)

❖ Notion of digital literacy & effect on education

❖ New media literacies (Jenkins, Clinton, Purushotma, Robison & Weigel 2006)

❖ Web 2.0 potential to bridge the digital gap

❖ Professional development programs

Overview

Traditional Schools and Literacy Practices

❖practice built on print/text

❖increased time teaching text, static images

❖no significant improvement in literacy rates

What constitutes literacy?

❖Understanding written language forms required by society or valued by the individual (reading literacy)

How is literacy shaped today?

❖ continues to be shaped by individuals and society

❖ the Internet plays a larger role in literacy than every before - and the practices online continue to change

❖ no longer shaped solely by print/text

❖ learning/literacy continues to be social; availability of media enhances opportunities to learn in social environments

❖ first....a look at Internet practice in most classrooms...

Internet Use in Classrooms(Web 2.0) Internet Use Outside

Classrooms

Content retrieval & consumption Content creation & production

Access mediated by teacher Access unmediated

Production as evidence of consumption

Production as genuine contribution

Enculturation into pre-ordained “culture”

Enculturation into affinity group cultures

Text privileged Multimodal systems privileged

Teacher as guide on the side Distributed and collective expertise

Individual Collaborative

User standardization User customization

Linear, logical, static progressionNon-linear, logical, dynamic

progression

Technology Trend

Example Significance

Grassroots Video

YouTube multimodal learning(audio, video, text)

Collaboration Webs

wikis organized around people more than content, anyone contributes

Mobile Broadband

smartphones ubiquitous organization, applications for everything!

Data MashupsGoogle Map

Appschallenges how we represent and

understand data

Collective Intelligence

Wikipedia expertise of many valued and rewarded; teachers less so

Social Operating Systems

LinkedIn or Facebook

students “practice” tools useful for networking, communicating

World Book Online Wikipedia

Favorites/bookmarksDelicious/social

bookmarkspersonal website blogslist servs/retrieval RSS Feeds

content management system

wikis

directories (taxonomy) tagging (folksonomy)Walgreens photos

onlineFlickr

publishing participating

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

Effect on education

❖gadgetry

❖student learning

❖professional community

Notion of new (digital) literacies

❖ ...solve problems with a deluge of information in the digital age (2001)

❖ influenced by socio-cultural learning theories - social

❖ encompasses digital literacies

❖ influenced by Web 2.0 technologies - multimodal, collaborative

❖ grassroots efforts are leading the charge towards digital literacy....Jenkins et al., frames the new media literacies

❖ ...

New media literacies (Jenkins et. al.)

❖“set of cultural competencies and social skills”

❖simulation, appropriation, judgment, transmedia navigation, negotiation, play, multitasking, performance, collective intelligence, distributed cognition, networking

Web 2.0 Literacy - Where should we begin?

❖ Assess your content

❖ Consider your technology tools

❖ Build a framework supportive of social/collaborative problem solving (for students)

❖ Support through professional development

Grassroots efforts - translating to sustainability

❖ Broadly - must build a culture supporting practices

❖ Specific examples...tied to New Media Literacies

❖ blogs

❖ wikis

❖ podcasts