Your Name and Title: Karen Blumberg, Middle School Technology Integrator
School or Organization Name: The School at Columbia Univeristy
Area of the World from Which You Will Present: New York, NY
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience(s): Teachers, Technologists, Curriculum Coordinators, Administrators
Short Session Description (one line): In the 21st Century school, students, parents, teachers, and administrators need to embrace new media literacy skills and harness their ability to enhance communication, motivation, understanding, and accountability.
Full Session Description (as long as you would like): In the school of the future, teachers plan together to design units and projects that integrate multiple subject areas and technologies. Students work collaboratively and independently using a variety of 21st Century tools to embrace new literacies and enhance communication, motivation, understanding, and accountability. There are national/international standards for new media use and technology integration put out by ISTE, NCTE, and other organizations that can be used as guides. School communities perpetually innovate and use available resources academically, responsibly, and respectfully. Still, we need to constantly grapple with the following questions: How are students using new media? How are teachers modeling how to use these tools appropriately? How are we preparing our digital natives to be digital citizens?
In this session, I hope to:
1. Define the terms: Media, literacy, new media, new literacies.
2. Discuss Henry Jenkins' new media literacy skills and what it means to be part of a participatory culture: Play, performance, simulation, appropriation, multitasking, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, judgment, transmedia navigation, networking, negotiation, visualization.
3. Examine specific examples of multidisciplinary academic projects that reinforce these skills.
Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: http://www.newmedialiteracies.org/the-literacies.php
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The deadline for submitting your revisions to this proposal is November 7, 2011 at 5 PM CST or 23:00 UTC. Email Lucy Gray at elemenous@gmail.com if you make changes and need your proposal reviewed again.
We will not accept revisions after this time. If you choose not to revise, we appreciate your ideas and we hope you'll consider applying next year.
Karen, what are the implications for global connections and collaborations? Add some language here. I'll accept revisions through Monday, November 7 at 5 PM.
LG