What are “New Literacies?”
According to the University of Connecticut’s Carnegie Research Grant, new literacies include the following:
• Locating information using menu, search engine, links, or other navigation finders relevant to a topic or goal.
• Critically evaluating information within and across web pages against standards of credibility that take into account the information’s source, authority, mode of representation, logic and purpose.
• Synthesizing information from many sign systems (e.g., print, pictures, icons, moving images, audio, and other design elements) and sources to construct a working mental model of the content
• Communicating information by producing a representation that coherently, explicitly, and persuasively articulates the meaning intended by the author(s)
How can new literacies be used in the classroom?
Digital storytelling is a way in which teachers can have their students create project-based assessments while using these new literacies. iMovie and Book Writer are two apps which students can use to create multi-media productions on an assigned topic. Book Writer allows students to create interactive eBooks by “adding pictures, text, voice recordings, songs, and videos”(Book Writer Description). iMovie allows students to create videos, commercials, or documentaries to communicate the information they have learned. For both types of projects, the students would need to locate and research information using multiple webpages, construct a working model of the content, and coherently communicate what they have learned; all of these are examples of how the students would be using new literacies.
How do new literacies tie in with the Common Core Standards?
According to Digital Storytelling and the Common Core Standards, “The anchor standards for speaking and listening include students learning how to “make strategic use of digital media…to express information and enhance understanding of presentations; present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning; and to adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks”. Both iMovie and Book Writer would allow students to make strategic use of digital media to present information in a creative way. Students could produce digital videos using iMovie and then upload this video to their interactive book on Book Writer, "making strategic use of digital media."
• Communicating information by producing a representation that coherently, explicitly, and persuasively articulates the meaning intended by the author(s)
How can new literacies be used in the classroom?
Digital storytelling is a way in which teachers can have their students create project-based assessments while using these new literacies. iMovie and Book Writer are two apps which students can use to create multi-media productions on an assigned topic. Book Writer allows students to create interactive eBooks by “adding pictures, text, voice recordings, songs, and videos”(Book Writer Description). iMovie allows students to create videos, commercials, or documentaries to communicate the information they have learned. For both types of projects, the students would need to locate and research information using multiple webpages, construct a working model of the content, and coherently communicate what they have learned; all of these are examples of how the students would be using new literacies.
How do new literacies tie in with the Common Core Standards?
According to Digital Storytelling and the Common Core Standards, “The anchor standards for speaking and listening include students learning how to “make strategic use of digital media…to express information and enhance understanding of presentations; present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning; and to adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks”. Both iMovie and Book Writer would allow students to make strategic use of digital media to present information in a creative way. Students could produce digital videos using iMovie and then upload this video to their interactive book on Book Writer, "making strategic use of digital media."
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