Lifting Literacy Etools and approaches to engage, develop and extend our learners

What were the main stimuli during your preschool development years?

How does this affect brain development?

And what of today’s kids . . . ?

Aside from school work and homework, how often do most kids of this generation write pen to paper?

In their future, will they interact with books in hardcopy form?

What are the chances they will ever use a dictionary as we did?

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Tool focused

Learning  Focused:  LEARNING  

What etools/apps are you currently using to activate/develop/deepen student

literacies?

Wallwisher here: http://wallwisher.com/wall/knconference

21st  Century  Wri.ng  •  Will  our  kids  need  to  learn  to  write?  •  Whose  future  are  we  preparing  them  for?  •  What  might  their  future  look  like?  •  How  do  we  prepare  them  to  adequately  and  confidently  to  live  in  a  world  when  we  have  no  idea  what  that  will  look  like?  

•  Skills  and  processes  are  transferable.    

•  Clearly purposeful to me

•  For an audience

•  That gets feedback, reaction and a result from the reader

•  Where I experience success

•  Where I can take responsibility but get the support I need to get better

•  Where I can see and measure my own progress

What  is  o.k?  •  CollaboraIve  wriIng  •  Borrowing  ideas  from  others  •  EdiIng  wriIng  on  a  computer  •  Spell  check  •  Grammar  check,  thesaurus  •  GeLng  inspiraIon,  moIvaIon          &  ideas  from  pictures  or  illustraIons  •  DigiIsing  stuff  •  Publishing  work  

Many students have had years of working on their own, faced with paper and pen, and lacking in motivation and ideas. It’s time for a change. • Bouncing ideas around • Opportunity to “borrow” some ideas in order to get started • Richer vocabulary • Greater engagement • Part of a great piece of writing • Audience and interaction

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/

Etherpad and Recipes for writing  hQp://christchurchcitylibraries.com/kids/childrensauthors/

phyllisjohnston.asp      

To  tantalise  our  tastebuds  to  write…  

Etherpads:  6-­‐8  per  pad.    hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn1  hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn2  hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn3  hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn4  hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn5  hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn6  hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn7  hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn8  hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn9  hQps://etherpad.mozilla.org/kn10                  

Recipe for writing:  1.  Decide from what perspective you will be writing.

2.  Set the scene as though a silent camera was sweeping across the landscape.

3.  Introduce  sound  into  the  scene  

4.  Introduce  character  to  the  scene  

5.  Introduce  tension  

6.  Add  climax/drama  that  needs  resoluIon  

7.  Add  resoluIon  and  closure  to  the  story  

I sor a betel. It is going under a lef. It had a big stip on it bak. It is eeting the lef. I don’t like betels. They stink.

Note the variation in tense – something to model work on for editing.

For juniors: e.g. Think of an animal • What is your animal? • What is it doing?

• What does it look like? • What does it eat? • How did you feel about it?

 Five  Card  Stories  

Story-­‐starter  ideas  h@p://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/contents_wri.nginspira.on.htm  

Twi@er  •  CollaboraIve  Note  taking  around  text/learning  

•  Flipping  the  classroom  and  asking  students  to  tweet  in  from  home.    

Crea.ng  Digital  Stories  

Let’s  take  a  look  at  a  few  that  have  been  created  by  other  students….  The  NaI  Awards  and  another  example    My  loose  tooth    The  Bully  

Let’s  hear  from  a  school  that  used  an  online  tool  called  StoryBird  to  create  

their  own  digital  stories…      

Publishing  your  Digital  Stories  

 E-­‐Pals  

Quad  Blogging  

Wri.ng  Book  Reviews  

 Wri.ng  your  own  School/Class  Newspaper  

Apps  &  Online  tools  for  WriIng  •  E-­‐books  for  reading  and  wriIng  •  My  Story  •  LiQle  Story  Maker    •  Apple  iBooks  Author  •  Skitch  •  Inkflow  •  Popplet  •  Storybird  •  LiQle  Bird  Tales  

21st  Century  Reading  •  Is  it  not  that  students  aren’t  reading;  is  it  more  that  they  are  reading  differently…  and  we  just  haven’t  noIced?  

•  To  what  extent  are  we  teaching  transferable  skills  and  processes  vs    knowledge?  

 

Think  of  a  reluctant  reader;  what  happens  when  we  put  a  digital/mobile  device  in  their  hand?    

– Searching  – SelecIng  – Synthesising  –  Inferring  – Discussing/chaLng  – UIlising  mulI-­‐literacies  

ebooks and book reviews  

Book reviews  

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Linking with QR - Codes

Placing QR codes onto Library books Great also for Wide Reading - Secondary

iPad Apps

Voicethread  

http://voicethread.com/?#q.b2039358.i10800964    Examples  of  its  use  in  Junior  and  senior  classes  And  others          

hQp://englishonline.tki.org.nz/English-­‐Online/Community-­‐discussions/ICTs-­‐in-­‐English    

hQp://elearningbop.wikispaces.com/Literacy+Progressions    

Key  messages:    *  Modify/scaffold  the  use  of  these  tools    *  Make  it  relevant  to  your  students  and    their  environment.  

 *  Choose  one  relevant  thing  to  begin  with    and  give  it  a  go!