Guide for facilitating collaborative work around what the need for Digital Literacies means for K-12 teaching and learning. At Innovate Conference 2013, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1. Dive into the Conversation:
Access the Ning (innovate2013.ning.com) and our
conversation under Cohorts - Literacy
Read the Discussion Forum Titled: “Re-defining Learning
Literacies Requires Imagining a Different Future”
Reply to the Discussion with your thoughts on 21st
Century Literacies

4. How has literacy
traditionally been
defined?

5. What does it mean to
be literate in the 21st
century?

8. What does this look like in practice?
What resources exist for educators?
Making 21st Century Literacy a Reality

9. How do we prepare
ourselves to understand,
synthesize and innovate our
own 21st century teaching
practices?

10. ACTION PLAN
How will you innovate your
teaching practice?

11. Session 2
• How can we use 21st century tools to
teach literacy in the primary years?
• How do we teach our students to
manage the information overload
(secondary)?
• What implications does this have for
the physical space of classroom and
school?

12. • Literacy involving an ability to self-
educate - from the web, from video
• constant learning
• our own professional development -
owning it for ourselves

13. • How do we prepare ourselves and
other teachers for teaching these new
literacy skills?

14. • What are the traits of a successful
person in this modern world?
• independent, organized, motivated
• How do we build these intrinsic skills
in our students?

15. • Students college ready?
• No, LEARNING ready!
• we limit their potential to learn in different ways
• So HOW do we do this in schools?

16. NCTE
• 21st
Century Literacies