Week 2

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Week 2

• Broader views of literacy

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Changing shifting landscapes

• New populations
• New communities
• New economies
• New languages
• New poverties
• New technologies
• New times

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The connected classroom

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vvC928e629iM

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New texts

• Visual
• Oral
• Aural
• Written
• Information
• Media
• Multi media
• One, some or all of the above

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Multiliteracies

• Broader views of literacy recognise the range of
  literate practices that children experience in a
  multi textual world

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What are ..

• Information-based economies
• Mass-media cultures
• Cultural identities
• Life pathways
• Post industrial countries
• Life and career pathways

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At-risk ..?

• Who
• Why
• What are the challenges
• What impact for schools and classrooms

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How have these concerns been dealt with ?

• Basics
• Standards
• Regulation of teachers work

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Queensland Literacy Strategy

• Not a set text about right methods
• Not about definitive curriculum packages
• Not a return to a nostalgic past
• Not about dictated administrative systems or
  structures

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What matters?

• Focused instruction
• Time on task
• High levels of student engagement
• Focus on whole school approaches.
• BUT .. Based on professional knowledge of
  teachers
• (Hill Crevola, 1998)

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Whole school programmes

• Data driven,
• Theoretically informed
• Understandings of
• cultural background knowledges
• linguistic resources
• community needs

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And

• A shared vision of the range of literacy
  practices that will enhance students life chances
  in the new economies and communities.

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Simplistic definitions of literacy

• Such as basic reading skills, phonemic
  awareness, grammar mastery, correct spelling will
  not do it!!!!
• These are important BUT they need to be
  considered in relation to what children need to
  write, with which form of media or technology,
  for what kinds of communities now and in the
  future.

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READING IMAGES
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Three over lapping media of communication

Oral Maori, English, and other community languages
Written Alphabetic writing, print culture.
Multi-mediated Blended systems of linguistic sounds, visual representations of digital and electronic media. Multiliteracies


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What literacies are used here? What
understandings? By who ..?

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v0JBdql0g33I

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Four roles of the meaning maker
TEXT
(Code breaker) Code Letters, letter combinations, letter sound relationships, phonemes, words, vocabulary, directionality, ..
(Text Participant) Meaning What does this mean? Do I understand this text? Does it make sense?
(Text User) Purpose What can I do with this, What is this text for? How can I talk about it? Could I produce such a text? How do others use it?
(Text Analyst) Positioning Critical What does this text do to me? How does it position me? What does it expect me to know/value? How does it position others?
(Freebody Luke, 1990 Luke Freebody 1998)
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Urls

• http//www.google.co.nz/search?qMilos20wolveshl
  enieUTF-8saNtabpw
• http//www.npl.lib.va.us/cove/books/Barbalet_dhtml
  .shtml
• http//www.wolf.org/wolves/index.asp

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Whale Rider

• http//www.whaleriderthemovie.co.nz/
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vfE7-_Z03Aw4
• http//www.teara.govt.nz/en/te-whanau-puha-whales/
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