How can we model and help our students develop skills in the new literacies of the digital world? In this workshop we explored the so-called "new" or "emerging" literacies - things like the nuances of hashtags and how to use them for creative production, video blogging as an effective alternative to the written essay, microcontent, and visual thinking and media.
***please note that the VIDEOS will not play in this version
See some of the vlogging videos in this community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
55. We are in a networked society now…
and there’s no going back…we should
promote learning through networks,
not curriculum
steve wheeler
@timbuckteeth
143. Ask learners to go BEYOND
declarations of knowledge...
...learners need to CREATE
and SHARE stuff...
...blogs, articles, images,
videos, ARTIFACTS...
-george siemens, originator of Connectivism Theory
182. In the digital age, the
ability to contribute to
discourse on a blog or
participate on a social
network is just as vital as
being able to read a
famous work by a well-
known author
-dominic basulto, Big Think
196. Why Should StudentsVlog?
personal;
allows for
student voice
natural; part of
“confessional
culture”
easy; cheap; fun
less stressful
for some
dynamic; can
be augmented
practice
new
literacies
hard to
plagiarize
292. 1. pick theme
2. use Google Images
advanced search
3. “recommended for
non-commercial reuse”
4. Google Drawing or
Google Classroom
THEME MEME
via Caitlin Tucker
293. try an emoji story of your own
OR
post a meme you find relevant to our G+
325. If social media was a newspaper…
it’d be like “dropping a student’s story
on the front step for others to read…
Terry Heick, Edudemic
326. If social media was a newspaper…
it’d be like “dropping a student’s story
on the front step for others to read…
without this step the story
is little more than
and act of compliance
in pursuit of a grade
Terry Heick, Edudemic
327.
328. how about a #FF for our students?
teacher as amplifier
354. I don’t think EDUCATION is about
centralized instruction anymore…
it’s the process of
establishing oneself as a NODE
in a broad NETWORK of distributed
CREATIVITY @joi, MIT