From Hand It In to Publish It: Re-envisioning - NECC 2007 - n07s584

This session by Will Richardson

BTW - Will is our Keynote presenter for CUEBCís conference held in Maple Ridge October 19, 2008. [ http://www.cuebc.ca/ ]www.cuebc.ca

This was a refreshing session to listen to Will. He is a great presenter and immersed in digital literacy.

My Notes:
Wikipedia may not be fully accurate - but neither are textbooks or encyclopedia. Wikipedia is current - how many books still have world trade center buildings as tallest buildings in USA

Wikipedia has over a million changes a day.....

Why are we teaching with keyboard and mouse? - that technology will be gone in a few years. This part was pretty enlightening. Will showed a standard office and then removed all the traditional tools. One view of what this might look like is from microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ There is another view from Jeff Hann in TED Talks bookmarked in my http://www.youtube.com/kevinamboe Youtube account or here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ

Blogging as ProD
Blogging is similar to journaling of years ago. The difference is the audience. I now belong to several communities and either post directly to communities or through this blog. I can agree with Will that reading what is available and then writing reflectively on it is fantastic professional development. I can learn more in a couple of hours reading and blogging than I learned from entire university courses.

Looking at Literacy

Why are we assessing traditional literacy to determine if new literacies make a difference?
-Cooperative learning is contrived and not fully engaging
-Collaborative learning has all members engaged

IBM has 26 000 bloggers and 50 islands in Second Life.
- A graduate is not literate to work with IBM and has be retrained.

Our understanding of intelligence, literacy, and knowledge has to shift from retelling of facts. Rather than testing students on how many children are in Japan, how about asking them to determine who owns this site and whether to believe as authentic. Anyone can access a website - Can they access relevant and accurate information on a topic when they need it?

Moving from traditional literacy to Information and Media Literacy is move to real work for real purpose for real audiences.