Our Initial Ideas About Literacy/Literacies

What is it / are they? Where do we start?

Steve AmendumUniversity of Delaware

Carl YoungNCSU College of Education

Get ready…

1 Objective, 1 Rule

• To get ideas out of your head, and onto paper, quickly….

• Your ideas!

Literacy? Literacies?

• Step 1: Define literacy or literacies in your own words. Take 2-3 minutes to freewrite or freetype what literacy is or literacies are. (Can use your Participant wiki page! )

– What is literacy? What does it mean to be literate?

New Literacies?

• Step 2: What is/are new literacies? Define new literacies in your own words. Take 2-3 minutes to freewrite or freetype what new literacies is/are.

– This definition may be an extension of your first one or an elaboration to some degree.

Share & Collaborate

• Step 3: Now, in small groups designated on the wiki, share your ideas about literacy and new literacies, and…(4 minutes)

• Step 4: Collaborate on a common working definition that incorporates both literacy/literacies AND new literacies that is no longer than 50 words. Type this on your group’s wiki space. (5 minutes)

• Step 5: Create a visual representation of your working definition that includes your words and any visual design elements that help convey your ideas. Post-It poster paper and markers provided. (5 minutes)

Initial Ideas About Literacy/ies Gallery Walk• Next, post them around the room. Get a

picture of your group with its poster. Email a picture to Steve or have him take one!

– amendum@udel.edu

• Walk and take a look at each other’s work

• Note any common themes or images, as well as anything else that strikes you as you take a look.

Common Themes / Observations

• Share: If time,…– What are some of the common themes you

noticed?– What other observations did you make?– Use these as a reference point to build upon

over the three days!– Post your initial and follow-up definitions to the

wiki on your group page!

Connections…

• Literacy, specifically, New Literacies, have connections to technology, but also to art, narrative, gaming, multimodality,…being creative and creating!

…help us to represent ideas in new and dynamic ways…

Preamble, 1987;Mike Wilkins

NELA Cohort III Participant Profile

http://www.wordle.net

NLI Team’s New Literacies Wordle

Northeast Leadership Academy Internet Search Tagxedo

• http://www.tagxedo.com/artful/006c8358e2e94fcd

Additional Considerations

• Early literacy• Emergent literacy• TPACK• Digital fluency• Digital literacy• And more…

• Use the workshop to further reflect upon and refine your definition of literacy/literacies/new literacies!

Questions?

Observations?