These are presentation slides for Dr. Wesley Fryer's presentation in Wells, Maine, on August 28, 2013. Digital literacy today means much more than searching the Internet and using Microsoft Office. To be digitally literate, teachers as well as students need to be able to create and share online a variety of different multimedia products. These media products can be “mapped” to your curriculum, and if you’re in a Common Core state in the United States, to the Common Core State Standards. Interactive Writing, Narrated Art, 5 Photo Stories, Narrated Slideshows, Screencasts, Quick Edit Videos, and eBooks are a few of the media products learners should be able to create and safely share online. In this session, we’ll view different examples of student media products and learn about tools and strategies for helping teachers become digitally literate as “media mappers.” We’ll also explore how librarians and instructional coaches can use the “Mapping Media to the Curriculum” website as a roadmap to help teachers and students create media products as assignments for class and as artifacts in digital portfolios. Learn more and access session resources on maps.playingwithmedia.com.
14. It starts in kindergarten:
“With prompting and support, describe the relationship
between illustrations and the text in which they appear
(e.g., what person, place thing, or idea in the text an
illustration depicts).”
In 4th grade it becomes:
“Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g.,
visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent
understanding of a topic or issue.”
In 8th grade students must:
“Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different
mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a
particular topic or idea”
And in 12th grade students must:
“Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in
different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in
words in order to address a question or a problem.”
Wood, Joe.“Digital Writing & Common Core.” JoeWoodOnline, November 15, 2011.
www.joewoodonline.com/digital-writing-common-core/.
28. time to RECLAIM creativity in the classroom
www.flickr.com/photos/zoutedrop/2317065892
Creativity
29. I know from watching and listening all over the country in schools
and in workshops, however, that many educators have become less
creative, more timid and unimaginative, and have indeed lost pride in
their work in the face of how heavy-handed the states have been in
promulgating this retro and harmful “accountability”.Why is not the
state responsible for ensuring that the incentives are right and the
resources are available to do the work well? States should have to be
accountable for how local leaders interpre their mandates. But states
wash their hands of the problem of change; they merely issue
mandates. So, teachers become brow-beaten by scores, encouraged
to do test prep, and in general, down the authority line, to teach
worse rather than better – somehow in the name of “standards.”
http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/standards-yes-current-implementation-no-how-we-have-re-invented-soviet-era-wheat-quotas/
30. “If you just
buy this...”
“your test
scores will
look like this:”
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f8pXcUqZgA8/TG7TCB1j4cI/AAAAAAAAAos/nIbsPJ_g2ys/s1600/iwanttobelieveel4.jpg
44. Book Creator for iPad
www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/
Creative Book Builder
http://getcreativebookbuilder.blogspot.com
http://wfryer.com/ebooks
Create ENHANCED eBooks on iOS
(record your voice)
56. The Fire
There was a fire ban that year
But the carless campers left
Leaving smoldering remains behind
The fire that ate the forest
Wind whispered wordlessly in the trees
The fire was given new life
Like a new small heartbeat
The fire that ate the forest
57. ...continued...
The fire lit the dry grass
It was gathering in strength
Like a lion preparing to strike
The fire that ate the forest
The fire now reached the trees
It was a wild beast let free
Grey smoke billowed up to the sky
The fire that ate the forest
69. WordPress for iOS
http://ios.wordpress.org
Kidblog for iOS
http://wfryer.me/kidblog
Edmodo for iOS
www.edmodo.com
My Big Campus for iOS
www.mybigcampus.com
Google Drive for iOS
http://google.com/mobile/drive