1. Key Skills in Digital Literacy
Bill Lord
www.lordlit.com
@Joga5
Bill Lord @joga5
www.lordlit.com
2. Definitions
Digital literacy is the ability to
locate, organize, understand, evaluate, an
d analyze information using digital
technology.
It involves a working knowledge of current
high-technology, and an understanding of
how it can be used.
3. Definitions
Multiliteracies (New London Group.)
• The world is becoming smaller,
communication between other
cultures/languages is necessary to anyone.
The usage of the English language is also
being changed.
• The second way to incorporate the term
multiliteracies is the way technology and
multimedia is changing how we
communicate.
4. “something as simple as fun is the
easiest way to change people’s
behaviour for the better”
Bill Lord @joga5
www.lordlit.com
5. This slide was a call back to the 1990s when we all had Paul Johnson’s How to Make
Books in Primary schools and used them to get children writing. The issue was that, all
too often, the quality of the books outweighed the quality of the writing contained in
them.
6. •Children need to have writing modelled to them (on paper or electronically)
•Children need to, at times and where appropriate, feel uncomfortable about the writing
process BUT TO FEEL SUPPORTED AT ALL TIMES
The Writing Commandments
Bill Lord @joga5
www.lordlit.com
7. Key Questions
• What do you want from blogging?
– What do you perceive as the benefits for the
children in your class?
– What will be the focus of your blog?
• Diary
• Collection of work
• Entirely text based?
• Using Web 2.0 materials
8. Potential unrecognised….
School Reports
• Tolstoy: “Both unable and unwilling to
learn.”
• Louis Pasteur: “A mediocre pupil in his
baccalaureate.”
• Roald Dahl: English composition. “The boy
is an indolent and illiterate member of the
class.”
9. The teaching of writing
Making explicit the
internal
conversation
which takes place
in a writer’s mind.
10.
11. Teaching how to write on a blog
• Which skills are needed?
– Oracy
– Planning
– Drafting
– Editing
– Reviewing
13. Commenting on blogs
• Who comments?
• What is the language of comment?
– Is there a meta-language?
14. The able writer may…….
• Possess a strong awareness of audience
• Show an interest in the craft of writing
• Be capable of writing at length while maintaining
a sense of audience, purpose and organisation
• Write in original ways and experiment with styles
• Summarise succinctly
• Show a dislike of repetition and closed tasks
• Apply reading experiences to writing tasks
33. Removing Barriers to Literacy
• Expectations
• Speaking and listening
• Sequence, sequence, sequence
Notas do Editor
Because the way people communicate is changing due to new technologies, and shifts in the usage of the English language within different cultures, a new "literacy" must also be used and developed.The world is becoming smaller, communication between other cultures/languages is necessary to anyone. The usage of the English language is also being changed. While it seems that English is the common, global language, there are different dialects and subcultures that all speak different Englishes. The way English is spoken in France, or in South Africa or any other country is different from how it is spoken in the US.These days, text is not the only and main way to communicate. Text is being combined with sounds, and images and being incorporated into movies, billboards, almost any site on the internet, and television. All these ways of communication require the ability to understand a multimedia world.
Intentions behind bloggingIs it simply communication with other children enough
The author is NeilGaiman who has written The Graveyard Book, Coraline, The Alphabet Book, The Day I swapped my Dad for 2 goldfish, Wolves in the Walls.This is about ensuring that children have a clear model of the writing process
Talk through these as skills and how these can be carried out briefly or in detail.
