This is a presentation I presented to a group of educators K-12, all disciplines.

1. Tinkering Towards Fluency:
Digital Literacy for All
Edina Back-to-School Kick Off
August 28, 2012
Candance Doerr-Stevens

5. tinker (v)
To play, fiddle, or experiment with
new materials in an unstructured
manner

6. ―Being creative is about having original
ideas, requires actual skills in the fields
in which you’re working—and an
opennes of mind, a willingness to
explore, a confidence in your
imagination, a willingness to try things
out and make mistakes and try again.‖
- Sir Ken Robinson

8. 1995

9. Student Internet PSA (1995)

10. 1995 – 16 million users (.4%)
2012 – 2.28 billion users (32.7%)

11. Marketplace
Workplace
Global Communications
Access to information
Telephone & Television

12. Mobility of nanotechnologies

13. ―Smart Fingertips‖ Wired Magazine Aug 2012

14. Creating and sharing of content online

15. Internet Users
=
Media Producers

16. So What?
Students will be creating and managing the media
content of today and tomorrow.
Digital divide gives way to ―Participation Gap‖
Humans need to tinker and create; creativity as
vehicle to thinking and learning

17. Media Literacy
… the ability to interact with online content in four
ways: to access, to analyze, to evaluate, and to
create.
-- Sonia Livingston (2005)
… also the ability to distribute and network online
content to real audiences.

18. Embedding Technology
―Curricular Upgrades‖
―Educational Revolutions‖
―TPACK‖

19. 4 Basic Questions
1) What content do you want your students to
explore?
2) What habits of thinking do you want your
students to practice (access, analyze,
evaluate, create)?
3) For what audience and purpose?
4) Which hardware and software best
accomplish these goals?

20. 4 Basic Questions
1) What content do you want your students to
explore?
2) What habits of thinking do you want your
students to practice (access, analyze, evaluate,
creation)?
3) For what audience and purpose?
4) Which hardware and software best
accomplish these goals?

21. 1st graders using voice recorders to
capture ―smart talk‖ about books

22. 5th Grade PSA ―Saving the Holts‖
(Via Georgia Movie Academy)

23. 10th grade ―Fight for Freedom‖ Timeline
Using Dipity.com

24. - Commentary on each event
- Notes who added content
(See also Churchill Science Dipity)

25. Infographics on Childhood Obesity
using Visual.ly & Many Eyes

26. Curiosity Rover ―Call Me Maybe‖ Mashup

27. Digital Writing as Tinkering
Explore ideas
Filter ideas
Curate ideas
Remix ideas

28. Tweet a few words
or short phrase on
on digital writing:
its potentials or
pitfalls
Hash tag #edinatinkering
Tweet Cloud LocaModa board

30. Life Lessons Through Tinkering

31. Edina Writing Cohort
Tech Cohort
Technology Coordinators
Each other