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Literacy and ICT

Literacy and ICT. PGCE Primary. Literacy in the 21 st Century.

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Literacy and ICT

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  1. Literacy and ICT PGCE Primary

  2. Literacy in the 21st Century • There are assertions that schools are not meeting the demands of today’s young people nor are they preparing them for life in an ever changing world. Despite these complaints, most bureaucrats have not reconsidered the curricular demands placed on schools, therefore many educational systems in the first decade of the 21st century have not changed with the times even though there are well-researched calls for the need for such changes…..

  3. Literacy in the 21st Century • If school-based, traditional literacies have not changed then the children of this new century certainly have. They are initiating, appropriating and establishing changes to literacy practices in a fast and furious manner. These changes, using the groundbreaking and rapidly developing technological advances of this new century, mean that young children and the youth culture of today are living their lives with and through the aid of digital technology. Evans, J. (2004:8) Literacy Moves On.

  4. Literacy and ICT • The place of ICT as a tool for supporting writing • New literacies… visual literacy, information literacy, digital literacy • Reading…. Beyond books • Writing… Beyond paper • Sharing, co-authoring, writing for a world-wide audience

  5. Writing using ICT • What do text creation and editing packages bring to the process of writing? • When is it sensible to stick to ‘traditional’ methods – pencil and paper? • When to use ICT, for what, why • Writing – different tools for different tasks

  6. Writing using ‘traditional’ ICT • Word Processing • Extremely powerful for processing text. Very good for • Letters • Assignments • Papers • Dissertations

  7. Writing using ‘traditional’ ICT • Publisher • Posters • Cards • Certificates • Brochures • Websites • Newsletters… • Good for print based material, provides templates but can be used ‘from scratch’.

  8. Writing using ‘traditional’ ICT • Power Point • Designed to support oral presentation • Can be used as a ‘rolling’ electronic presentation • Lots of features • Often badly used. • Powerful in that it helps presenter to focus on key points when used correctly.

  9. Writing using ‘traditional’ ICT • Inspiration • more a mind mapping and organisational tool than a writing tool, but the output could be regarded as writing • Provides useful templates • Persuasive essay • Historical figure • Available in a version suitable for younger users

  10. Writing using Web2.0 tools • Blogs - Class blog, reading blog, poetry blog, art blog, travel blog, sports blog… • Wikis - Community history, shared writing, project work across continents • Wikipedia, WikiHow - Put your school or community on Wikipedia, explain how to do something on WikiHow • Add information to Open Streetmap • Share and collaborate using Google docs

  11. Talking and Listening • PowerPoint • A presentation is mainly oral. The PP slides act as a support to the oral communication • VOIP • Voice over internet protocol allows free telephone calls over the internet - Skype, Messenger, Googletalk • Mobile telephones • More than phones… organisers, voice recorder, notepads, e-mail, cameras, video, radio, mp3 players, text messages (new language?)

  12. Reading • A much greater variety of reading matter available on screen to support printed text • Web sites, blogs, maps, graphs, video, photographs, animations, pdfs… • We need to ensure that material designed is clear and easy to read. • Avoid overuse of ‘interesting’ but strange typefaces

  13. Speaking, Listening, making movies • Podcasting, vid/vodcasting • The ability to create, edit and store audio and video material on-line for downloading from anywhere, anytime. • Extremely creative medium • Requires relatively advanced skills and software to edit and access to special servers to do a professional job • Basic skills can be taught using packages like Windows Movie Maker and Audacity (free download and available on US workstations)

  14. Assistive Technologies • Dragonspeak – automatically changes voice to text on the screen • Screen Reader – reads what writer has typed (or spoken) from the screen • Inspiration – this ‘graphical’ interface supports people suffering from dyslexia • Others

  15. Overall impact of ICTs on literacy • Transformational • Provides a much richer variety of writing tools • Provides access to a massive body of information • Requires us to facilitate literacy and graphicacy skills at an earlier age • critical skills, interpretation, referencing and citation conventions…. • Provides us with powerful tools to improve ‘literary’ experience of children • Rich, stimulating, bright, graphical environment, interesting

  16. Finally… • This being the case, why do we see so little ICT’s use in our classrooms?

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