tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849319076574250282.post8924474598107047599..comments2023-11-07T03:42:31.477-05:00Comments on Chalkdust: LiteracyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08156784418545421424noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849319076574250282.post-69078162358802514692007-06-13T03:39:00.000-05:002007-06-13T03:39:00.000-05:00Hi P,Just let me know when this is going to happen...Hi P,<BR/><BR/>Just let me know when this is going to happen, and I'd love to join in. If we could collaboratively invent a good wheel, that's one more tick off the checklist.<BR/><BR/>FYI, my PowerBook seems to need repairs, so I might be offline for a while. If so, you know why.<BR/><BR/>But give me those dates, yes?CBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11236657531187596253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849319076574250282.post-13893327755785925992007-06-12T22:59:00.000-05:002007-06-12T22:59:00.000-05:00Thanks to both of you for the input; I will be sur...Thanks to both of you for the input; I will be sure to use some of these strategies as I plan for next year.<BR/><BR/>Clay--<BR/><BR/>I threw this out to Barbara the other day because I value her input highly, but if you have some availability this summer, I would love to pull you in as an expert in some of the professional development workshops that I am running. Let me know if you are interested.<BR/><BR/>We have a small group of students that are pulling off an independent study next year, and we've set them up with PLE's that have access to Rutgers University class content. The reason I bring this up is that their advisor is very keen on bringing some the strategies that you mention in points 1-4. I plan on pitching it to her this summer as a means to test out how this would work in our district.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08156784418545421424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849319076574250282.post-3842614729954476682007-06-12T22:48:00.000-05:002007-06-12T22:48:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08156784418545421424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849319076574250282.post-68591231135906488602007-06-09T01:19:00.000-05:002007-06-09T01:19:00.000-05:00Oh, that' Diigo post won't go public until tomorro...Oh, that' Diigo post won't go public until tomorrow 0600 my time.CBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11236657531187596253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849319076574250282.post-74563174991781605662007-06-09T01:18:00.000-05:002007-06-09T01:18:00.000-05:00You crack me up, Barbara :)I "Daily Diigo'd" a cou...You crack me up, Barbara :)<BR/><BR/>I "Daily Diigo'd" a couple of Web Searching tutorials, and one had a good flash one that would possibly do the trick for elementary (I'm so inveterate a high schooler I never think below say, grade 6, though I need to start now).CBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11236657531187596253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849319076574250282.post-71411711364518012382007-06-08T20:56:00.000-05:002007-06-08T20:56:00.000-05:00Since I love to "ease drop" on any conversation be...Since I love to "ease drop" on any conversation between P and C.....I thought I would weigh in here.<BR/>First I agree with the premise that literacy must be revisited at all levels.<BR/>I would add to Clay's list the need to teach search techniques ( like Google advanced search) early and often...the idea is implied in points 1 and 2... but starting at the grammar school level we need to deconstruct URLs also to be literate.<BR/><BR/>I have been struggling to pull together a definition that I like for this new literacy and would love your input. It is multifaceted and hard to capture. On Classroom2.0 there was a discussion about teaching keyboarding that made an interesting point about literacy. Fluency has often be used to talk about reading text and is a measure of literacy..but in the discussion the argument was made that teaching keyboarding in the lower grades was part of the fluency important to literacy.Barbara Barreda K-8 Administrator, Tech integration advocate, Going 1:1 with netbookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07535523713482852906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849319076574250282.post-40043587909683788802007-06-08T17:52:00.000-05:002007-06-08T17:52:00.000-05:00Hi P,This is the kind of question that asks us to ...Hi P,<BR/><BR/>This is the kind of question that asks us to do something. So here's my 2 Korean Won :)<BR/><BR/>1) Teach website evaluation early, every year, spiraling up the grades.<BR/><BR/>2) Combine it with teaching del.icio.us searches as a "human filter" of random and often Google-bombed search results.<BR/><BR/>3) Teach del.icio.us tagged search RSS subscriptions.<BR/><BR/>4) (And my first original thought on this comment--) Exploit the examples of <I>uninformed, uncritical</I> website use from prior classroom projects. <BR/><BR/>To expand on 4, an example. A student in my history class this year embedded a neo-Nazi YouTube video glorifying Hitler, and she had no idea. That still exists on the student-created wiki history textbook we made online. So it's one example we can use to make the problem interesting and relevant to students.<BR/><BR/>The more other teachers note and, ideally, consolidate their own examples of weak source evaluation skills, the more interesting this would be for students. And whereas my example/case study concerns a video "citation," other examples of text-based websites would be needed.<BR/><BR/>There's an abundance of web evaluation activities all over the net, as you surely know. Most of them are 1.0, and we could tweak them with 2 and 3 above to teach how to navigate "around" the "crap out there."<BR/><BR/>Too early to continue, need coffee, and Mom needs a birthday call.<BR/><BR/>But I'll be getting a new MacBook with webcam soon, so I hope we can talk more over the summer.<BR/><BR/>C.CBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11236657531187596253noreply@blogger.com