Last week in Surrey, B.C., David Warlick gave a presentation on the need for change in our classrooms. I don’t think anyone would argue that the opportunities for students today to share, present knowledge and dialogue with others has changed not only the way we gather information and make sense of the world , but also forces us to examine the whole educational landscape.
Neil Postman, an educational theorist and media critic once argued that schools have always been about information. However, schools have not always been about primacy of the need for our students to know how to:
- collect accurate and appropriate information from all formats of socially constructed knowledge
- organize and store searchable and retrievable information
- interpret and analyze all data types and extend new ideas
- present new learning that is ethical and articulate and transmodal
Warlick’s notion that we need to stop talking about integration of technology and instead talk about literacy makes sense.
The development of the BC ICTI performance standards, outlines very clearly these skills or “new literacies” and how teachers can evaluate these skills. http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/perf_stands/icti/incs/quickScaleTbl.html
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