literarcy in a connected world

Literacy in a Connected World

Meenoo Rami

Stay In TouchO Teach my students English at Science

Leadership Academy in PhillyO Started #engchat in 2010O www.engchat.orgO @meenooramiO meenoo.rami@gmail.comO www.linkedin.com/in/meenooramiO National Board Certified TeacherO Thrive – to be published by Heinemann in

2014

GoalsOExpand definition of

reading/writing in our classrooms

OWays to engage students in authentic reading/writing

OUsing connections to share work with wider audience

This MomentO 96% agree digital technologies

“allow students to share their work with a wider and more varied audience”

O 79% agree that these tools “encourage greater collaboration among students”

Source: Pew Internet Study – The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing, July 16, 2013

So What?

From NCTEO Develop proficiency with the tools of technologyO Build relationships with others to pose and solve

problems collaboratively and cross-culturallyO Design and share information for global

communities to meet a variety of purposesO Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple

streams of simultaneous informationO Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-

media textsO Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by

these complex environments

Science Leadership AcademyClass of 2015

ReadingO Newspapers (Snow Fall – John

Branch, NYTimes)O Blogs – based on students’ interestsO Videos – TED talks, Big Think,

Vlogbrothers O RSA AnimateO Authors from your community or

across the world via SkypeO Documentaries – PBS, HBO, POV

WritingO BlogsO PodcastsO TrailersO Short Films/DocumentariesO Photo EssaysO Multigenre Research ProjectsO 6 words stories via TwitterO Presentations/Skits/Performance

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ChecklistO Know your studentsO Know their interestsO Create reading/writing opportunities

that bring their interests + skills you want to teach together

O Use your connections to give them wider audience

You as the lead learnerO Where does your reading and writing

life live?O How well do your students know you

as a reader and a writer?O Write with your studentsO Share the things that challenge you

about the things you read and write

ResourcesO Crafting Digital Writing – Troy HicksO http://digitalis.nwp.org/ - Digital IsO http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/ -

NYTimes Learning BlogO www.engchat.org - Weekly Twitter

Chat for English Teachers – Mondays at 7 PM ET.

If you can leave with…O Focus on the students, not the toolsO Tools may make composing and

publishing may make it easier but reading/writing is still a complex process

O You teach even more by modeling your reading/writing life

Stay In TouchO Teach my students English at Science

Leadership Academy in PhillyO Started #engchat in 2010O www.engchat.orgO @meenooramiO meenoo.rami@gmail.comO www.linkedin.com/in/meenooramiO National Board Certified TeacherO Thrive – first book to be published by

Heinemann in 2014