{"data":[{"ID":"78","Class":"EduconConversation","ContextClass":null,"ContextID":null,"Created":1287624875,"CreatorID":"622","RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Why Johnny Can't Read: A Conversation About What It Means to Be Literate...Today","Handle":"Why_Johnny_Cant_Read-_A_Conversation_About_What_It_Means_to_Be_Literate-Today","ShortDescription":"Nicholas Carr argues that we live in The Shallows. Clay Shirky writes that the literary world is now losing its normative hold on culture. So, is literacy changing? As we incorporate connective technologies in our classrooms, are the skills associated with deep reading and critical thinking being lost? What does it mean to be literate in 2010 and beyond?","Description":"As we incorporate connective technologies in our classrooms, what are the worst consequences of our best ideas?  (Chris Lehman)\r\n\r\nEffective application of technology to learning requires a fundamental grounding in educational theory and practice.  Understanding literacy, and how technology can serve to support the development of skills associated with a literate person, is a necessary component of effective educational practice. With that in mind, this conversation will help EduCon participants understand the shifting notion of what it means to be literate, and how that applies to the timeless processes of reading and writing.\r\n\r\nNicholas Carr argues that \"Google Makes Us Stupid\" and we now live in a world of The Shallows. Clay Shirky notes that [t]he literary world is now losing its normative hold on culture. Richard Foreman observes that the \"complex, dense and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality\" is at risk. Jason Ohler postulates being literate in a real-world sense means being able to read and write using the media forms of the day, whatever they may be.\r\n\r\nAre our ideas of what it means to be literate changing? Are traditional forms of literacy being replaced by new literacies? Does connective reading and writing change us? Are we sacrificing depth for breadth? Is individual critical thinking becoming lost in the crowd?\r\n\r\nIn this session we will examine our own read\/write\/think lives. How have our own reading and writing habits changed? Those of our students? What is our role as educators in preserving traditional forms of literacy? Incorporating the new?","Link":["http:\/\/jakes.editme.com\/educon23","http:\/\/thenetwork.typepad.com\/architectureofideas"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"* We'll begin by asking individuals to conceptualize their definition of what it means to be literate.  They will then share that with a larger group, and then with the full audience.\r\n    * We'll then present compelling ideas from Carr, Shirkey, as well as Jason Ohler and Donald Leu that may alter their perceptions and challenge them to reshape their ideas of literacy.\r\n    * The conversation will then move towards a consideration of new literacies, and if such really exist? (attention literacy, etc)\r\n    * From there, the group will explore literacy as a centering concept that supports and directs the wide-ranging application of connective technologies to fundamental skill areas, such as reading and writing.\r\n    * We'll then discuss reading and writing, changes associated with these learning processes, and the future directions.\r\n    * Finally, we'll ask them to share one actionable next step that they can take back to their school district or organization that will serve to extend the EduCon experience.","Presenter":["David Jakes","Laura Deisley"],"PresenterAffiliation":["David Jakes: Coordinator of Instructional Technology and Information Services at                       Glenbrook South High School (Chicago) Laura Deisley: Director of 21st Century Learning at The Lovett School (Atlanta)"],"PresenterEmail":["dsjakes@gmail.com","ldeisley@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlot":"Session Four","Room":"204","SubmitterID":"622","AdditionalComments":"Additional Citations:\r\nNicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid, Atlantic Monthly, July\/August 2008    <http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2008\/07\/is-google-making-us-stupid\/6868\/>.\r\n\r\nRichard Foreman, \"The Pancake People; or, 'The Gods Are Pounding My Head,' \" Edge, March 8, 2005, <http:\/\/www.edge.org\/3rd_culture\/foreman05\/foreman05_index.html>.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.aaup.org\/AAUP\/pubsres\/academe\/2009\/MJ\/Feat\/ohle.htm\r\n\r\nLarry Sangar, Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 2 (March\/April 2010): 14-24, <http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/EDUCAUSE+Review\/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume45\/IndividualKnowledgeintheIntern\/202336>.","LiveChannel":"educon1","Hashtag":null}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ScheduleSlot":"Session Four","0":"MATCH (Title,Description,Presenter) AGAINST (\"Jason T. Bedell\")"}}