Using technology not only to close read, but to invite our kids into a new environment where they are in charge.
Find ways to leverage technology to personalize learning.
We need to teach our kids to be device agnostic. We need to know how to move between the tools we have. It's all about the thinking--the tool/device doesn't matter.
What are we doing here? Active Literacy!
- Reading
- Writing
- Drawing
- Viewing
- Talking
- Listening
- Investigating
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by Peter H. Johnston
Link: http://amzn.com/1571103899
by Peter H. Johnston
Link: http://amzn.com/1571103899
We need kids to have a mindset of agency.
Interaction:
- Teacher to student
- Student to student
- Student with text, resources, and tech
We must transform the way students read, write, access, collaborate, and share learning.
Flexibility piece is huge! Explicitly teach one tool over another. You might use a post-it note to anchor it in the text. You might use an iPad to archive the thinking.
Students annotate their thinking and create mental images during an interactive read aloud.
Student reflection videos to document new learning and questions. Think "confessional booth" from reality TV. Kids talk to the camera about their reading, sharing thinking around something such as questioning.
- Cool strategy: Have kid who is a reluctant writer watch their video as many times as they'd like, then write two of their ideas down.
- This kid in her class did this, then wrote his two sentences, took a picture and posted it to his blog, and other kids started commenting on it.
- She has her kids send all of their work as email to a class gmail. She has kids write their name as the subject line.
Book trailers: Think about mood, music, look at mentor text examples
Classroom Twitter:
- Sharing what is being done in the classroom
- "The World is Watching." We are teaching people.
- Working on problems with classes around the world.
- Ex: Kids writes a letter on paper to Seymour Simon. They take a picture and tweet Seymour. He replies.
- Build the idea of network. Who is in your network?
Transliteracy
The ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media, from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.
It's not about technology. It's about creating:
- authors
- creators
- collaborator
- producers
- bloggers
- experts
"Children grow into the intellectual life around them." -Vygotske
More Resources:
Royalty-Free Music:
Apps:
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Drawing Pad (Can draw, write, and type)
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eBook Magic
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Tellagami
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SonicPics (Create an image file where kids can
read the images they want to think and wonder about)
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Songify
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