Learning to Learn: From Information to Knowledge Creation

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Learning to LearnFrom Information to Knowledge
Creation
Multiple Literacies, Multiple Minds!
cindy.matthews_at_tdsb.on.ca

• Students need to move from
• being simply knowledgeable to
• being knowledge-able. Wesch, 2008
• Defining literacy is a process of
• continuous negotiation Loertscher, Koechlin
  Zwaan, 2008

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• What is literacy?
• What are the language structures
• in our students minds?
• How do they read and make meaning?
• How is their syntax shaped?

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Multiple Literacies
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Visual Literacy Competencies Interpreting,
creating and using visual images Being aware of
emotional impact of visuals Analyzing patterns
trends in graphics words Thinking, decision
making and communicating with visuals Implications
Visual models used increasingly to create or
demonstrate understanding of data Need to
develop visual spatial intelligence
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Aesthetics colour meaning-making
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posters
Codes of communication Z pattern
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http//scratch.mit.edu/
Digital storytelling gaming and creating
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Codes to create storyboarding as thinking,
organizing communicating
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Codes to create scripting as thinking,
organizing communicating
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Visual Literacy in Traditional formats
http//books.simonandschuster.ca/Imagine-a-Night/S
arah-L-Thomson/9780689852183
inferences
http//www.legacyproject.org/books/dream.html
mood
http//www.amazon.ca/Duck-Rabbit-Amy-Krouse-Rosent
hal/dp/0811868656
point of view
http//www.shauntan.net/books/red-tree.html
visualization
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http//www.amazon.com/Look-Body-Language-Gillian-W
olfe/dp/1845070348
http//www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-Incredible-Biodiver
sity-Earth/dp/1553376692
Visual Literacy in Cultural and Information
texts
http//education.scholastic.ca/product/97807791067
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http//www.shauntan.net/books/the-arrival.html
http//search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Wall/Peter-Si
s/e/9780374347017
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Media Literacy Competencies Constructing meaning
from media viewed, heard read Understanding
intended audience purpose Implications Becoming
informed consumers of information ideas Using
tools to analyze media messages Awareness of
media persuasion Critical Literacy Competencies A
nalyzing synthesizing multiple
sources Connecting personal understandings
experiences to texts Implications Text to self,
text and world connections
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http//www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/ed
ucational/recommended/teaching_kits/scanning_telev
ision.cfm
http//www.cca-kids.ca/
http//pbskids.org/dontbuyit/
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1. All media messages are constructed. 2. Media
messages are constructed using a creative
language with its own rules. 3. Different people
experience the same messages differently. 4.
Media have embedded values and points of
view. 5. Media messages are constructed to gain
profit and/or power.
http//www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm h
ttp//www.eworkshop.on.ca/
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Critical Literacy paired with
Traditional Literacy
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Critical Literacy paired with
Information Literacy
http//www.ebscohost.com/public/canadian-points-of
-view-reference-centre
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wordle.net
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http//www.urgentevoke.com/
http//www.tigweb.org/
Critical Literacy for
Cultural Literacy
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• Digital Literacy
• Competencies
• Understanding, evaluating integrating
  information in multiple formats
• Utilizing multidimensional interactive skills
  to understand and construct information
• Implications
• Fluid construction of knowledge information
• Communicating in real time and networked
  participatory learning/work environments

http//www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students.as
px
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Technology Operations Concepts
http//www.osapac.org/cms/
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Digital Citizenship
http//www.slideworld.com/slideshows.aspx/Digital-
Citizenship--Compass-for-the-21st-Century-ppt-7559
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www.digitalcitizenship.net/uploads/ISTECompass.pdf

www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/tech/lict/let_me_try/dig_cit
izenship.doc
http//www.media-awareness.ca/english/catalogue/pr
oducts/descriptions/passport.cfm
http//mypolice.ca/children_and_youth/cyber_safety
.html
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Critical Thinking Problem Solving

• Presentation PowerPoint, Prezi, Notebook
• Assistive Technology Clicker 5, Read Write
  Gold, Write Out Loud, Dragon Naturally Speaking
• Audio Recording Audacity, Garageband,
  VoiceThread
• Digital Storytelling Photostory, iMovie, Flickr,
  MovieMaker, Frames, ComicLife, Bitstrips
• Online Productivity GoogleDocs, ZohoWriter,
  wikis, blogs

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Research Information Fluency
http//www.ourontario.ca/
http//www.secrest.ca/index.php?main_pageproduct_
infoproducts_id34
http//www.gale.cengage.com/InfoBits/
http//www.gale.cengage.com/globalissues/
http//grade6science-jack.blogspot.com/
http//search.creativecommons.org/
http//www.easybib.com/
http//citationmachine.net/index2.php?reqstyleid1

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Communication Collaboration
Google docs delicious online bookmarking diigo
online bookmarking, highlighter and sticky
noter Shelfari social media for book
lovers Skype online free video
telephoning kidblog.org for blogging without
email addresses Voicethreads online group
conversations around images, digital objects,
videos
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Creativity Innovation
speeches poetry Readers Theatre interviews oral
report newscasts announcements
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Collaborative Writing Projects
http//ipoddigitalfieldtrips.blogspot.com/
http//digitalfieldtrip.blogspot.com/
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http//digitalbooktrailers.pbworks.com/
http//emdietsch.glogster.com/rms-multiple-literac
ies/
http//multiliteracymemoirs.blogspot.com/
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For educators, this book raises the question,
How can we help students strike a balance
between two opposing human impulses the need
for outward connections and the need for inward
reflection?
TedTalk Where Do Good Ideas Come From? Steven
Johnson
YouTube Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing
Us Michael Wesch
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• http//weblogged.wikispaces.com/ConnectiveWriting
  

• Moving Students Online First Steps for Teachers
• Become Goggleable yourself
• Model connections
• Share student work
• Practice and teach reputation management

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Structure is Meaning

• Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, Noam
  Chomsky, 1965
• gtgtLinguistics deep structure holds meaning
  below
• the surface of syntactic structure

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Learning Commons

• The structure of our school libraries, both
  physical and virtual spaces promoting equitable
  access, and our library programs, with a focus on
  learning partnerships and technology in
  education, is meaning for our students learning
  as global, Canadian and local community citizens.

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• How is your Learning Commons
• structured for meaning,
• collaborative knowledge construction,
• Multiple Literacies and Multiple Minds?