The marriage between language and digital literacies in the 21st century

1. The marriage between language
and digital literacies in
the 21st Century
Richard Brummer 06/29/15

2. Write down the first word that
comes into your head when
you hear phrase mobile
learning?

4. https://goo.gl/PBqJ20
Digital Storytelling

5. Baule, S. (2015, May-June).
Future ready: Are you ready to
lead? Library Media Connection,
33(6), 8-9
Evans, J. (2015, May) A vision for
mobile learning: More verbs, fewer
nouns. Educational Leadership,
72(8), 10-16

6. Baule, S. (2015, May-June). Future ready: Are you ready to lead? Library
Media Connection, 33(6), 8-9
• Over the past few months the US. Department
of Education, in conjunction with over 200
superintendents, and overseen by President
Barack Obama, have been working on the
Future Ready Pledge.
• At its foundation, this pledge is a new
initiative to ensure that 99% of students have
broadband Internet access and access to the
best digital resources
(Here’s where leaders of reading come in)

7. • Obama - “In a country where we expect free
Wi-Fi with our coffee, the least we can do is
expect that our schools are properly wired.”
• Obama carries on to explain that his staff
reach for a device of some sort every two
minutes.
• As a result, he wants an equivalent experience
in schools so that students perceive education
as modern and not 20 or 30 years behind the
times.

8. • Baule explains that there are 7 tenets of the
Future Ready Pledge, nearly all of which
requires leaders in the field of reading, such as
librarians to direct their implementation.
• “Librarians must help determine the best
route for developing and implementing
personal digital devices and help provide the
resources to support their ongoing use”.

9. Seven Tenets of Future Ready
• Fostering and leading a culture of digital learning within our
schools
• Helping schools and families transition to high speed
connectivity
• Empowering educators through professional learning
• Accelerating progress toward universal access to quality
devices for all students
• Providing access to quality digital content
• Offering digital tools to help students and families reach
higher
• Mentoring other districts and helping them make the
transition to digital learning

10. “Become a leader in your building to
assemble and curate digital materials
that assist the teacher in personalizing
the learning for each child”

11. Evans, J. (2015, May) A vision for mobile learning: More verbs, fewer nouns.
Educational Leadership, 72(8), 10-16
• Write down the phrase word that comes into your
head when you hear the word mobile learning?
• Chances are they will mostly be nouns: tablets,
smartphones, apps.
• Idea that we need to change focus from nouns (mobile
devices as delivery mechanisms of information) to
verbs (demonstrate the impacts these devices have on
learning efficiency and reaching important goals .
• Powerful, college ready career verbs like communicate,
collaborate, and contextualize.

12. • Lucky for us, today’s students focus on what they
can do with mobile technology (the verbs) rather
than the types of mobile devices (nouns).
• Students envision learning as a 24/7 enterprise
with a myriad of informal, spontaneous, self-
directed learning experiences happening
throughout the day.
• Traditional learning that happens in school is only
a fraction of their overall learning day.

13. • Students perceive online classes and texts, digital
games, and mobile devices as vital gateways of
their increased engagement in and ability to
learn.
• Shift in the learners role. From a passive
consumer of information to an active developer
of knowledge and skills that the learner considers
important for his or her future.

14. For today’s students, the ideal learning
experience is social, untethered, and digitally
rich:
• Social – students want to create and develop
their own personalised learning networks
• Untethered – students can access and publish
their own learning from anywhere, at
anytime, through a growing multitude of
technological mediums.
• Digitally rich – students want to use tools for
learning that they see as relevant to the world
in which we live.

15. Virtual Fieldtrip
• You have 10 minutes to view one or more of
the following resources I’ve created.
• When you return please type in the box one
or more ideas that you have developed
through these resources that you could
implement in your work environment.
• These ideas could be mirroring one of these
resources or another idea you have
developed.

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Richard Brummer