Vilnius Lithuania 20-01-17 Digital Literacies and the challenge for Language teachers

Lithuania National Library, Vilnius20-01-2017

Skaitymo ir kultūrinio raštingumo asociacijaAssociation for Reading and Cultural Literacy

IDEC FELA

My backgroundü Language Teacher Secondary school

ü Researcher New Literacies / Online literacy

ü Consultant/ trainer/ speaker

ü Blogger

ü 39 years in education

u Teacher trainer

u Head Language department

Literacy/ New Literacies

Print vs Online texts Print information

u Lineairu Single tekstu Textualu Staticu One-wayu Clear author

Online information

u Non-lineair Hypertextu Connected textsu Multimodal Multi Mediau Flexible / Changingu Interactive u Not always clear

Are Digital Nativescompetent readers online ??

New & additional skills, strategies & knowledge needed

Many students are not competent

And there is more

Skills Strategies Knowledge u Find & select resources: searching strategies,

using tools, useful databases, interpret search results..

u Select information uEvaluate accuracy and the usefulness ucritical state of mind, uSelect info within complex hypertexts

u Synthesize information: beyond copy & pasteu Communicate online u Knowledge of new types of texts/ structures

offline A. Traditional print reading

B Multi document reading

C. Reading onlineExpand definition Literacy

Challenge Language ReachersCho & Afflerbach, 2010

Contextual change

u Change Governments way of thinking about literacy

u Update national curriculum: new definition, new attainment targets

u Update learning materials/ textbooks, tests/ instruments to evaluate (formative and summative)

u Break down the Tower of Babylon: Online literacies, Media literacy, Media wishdom, 21st century skills, information skills, …..

Common Core State Standards USA (Leu et al., 2014)

• General v An emphasis on higher level thinking during reading and writing

instruction; v A focus on acquiring skills in the new, digital literacies of online

research and comprehension" (Leu et al., 2014)• Language learning

vAS-W 8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism."

vAS-R 7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

What to do now / My experience

u Work in teacher development teams u Bottum up: Co-create / use each others

materials regional and (inter)nationallyu Relate to own curriculum/ learning goalsu Target language teachers first & early cross

curriculum adopters u Use recognisable terminology: ‘work on Critical Reading

Plus’, ‘expand search strategies to online texts’

u Share and collaborate F2F and online

Reading list u Afflerbach, P., & Cho, Β. Y. (2009). Identifying and describing constructively responsive

comprehension strategies in new and traditional forms of reading. In S. E. Israel & G. G. Duffy, Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension. New York: Routledge.

u Cho, B.-Y., & Afflerbach, P. (2015). Reading on the Internet. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 58(6)

u Castek, J., & Coiro, J. (2015). Understanding What Students Know. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 58(7)

u Donald J Leu, J., McVerry, J. G., O'Byrne, I., Kiili, C., Zawilinski, L., Everett-Cacopardo, H., et al. (2011). The new literacies of online reading comprehension: Expanding the literacy and learningcurriculum. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 55(1).

u Leu, D. J., Kulikowich, J. M., Sedransk, N., Coiro, J., Liu, C., Cui, W., et al. (2014). The ORCA Project: Designing Technology-based Assessments for Online Research, Comprehension, And Communication. American Educational Research Conference. Philidelphia.

u Leu, D. J., Forzani, E., Burlingame, C., Kulikowich, J., Sedransk, N., Coiro, J., & Kennedy, C. (2013). The new literacies of online research and comprehension: Assessing and preparing students for the 21st century with Common Core State Standards. In L. B. Gambrell & S. B. Neuman, Reading instruction in the age of common core standards. Newark, DE: IRA.

u OECD. (2011). PISA 2009 Results: Students On Line (Vol. VI, p. 395). OECD Publishing. doi:10.1787/9789264112995-en

u OECD (2014). PISA 2012 Results: What Students Know and Can Do – Student Performance in Mathematics, Reading and Science (Volume I, Revised edition), PISA, OECD Publishing.

Thank youJeroen Clemens

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