Forms of Visual and Media Literacy

21st Century Literacy Skills

"The illiterate of the year 2000 will not be the individual who cannot read and write, but the one who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." --- Alvin Toffler

David Kearns, former CEO of the Xerox Corporation, defines "uneducated" as "not knowing how to keep on learning." "Research tells us that we now have 100% new information every five years. If that trend continues, students who are in grades one through three will graduate during a time where, in some technological fields, there will be new information every 38 days. That could mean that the information they learned this month may be outdated two months from now!

Paul Saffo writes re: Origin of the Attention Economy
Herbert Simon, wrote in 1971: (but was talking about it in the 50's) "What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." Herbert Simon "Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World" in Computers, Communications and the Public Interest" Martin Greenberged, ed. (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press) 1971 pp 40-41

About Information Literacy
Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
Citing Internet Resources

Media Literacy

Media Literacy. com
Center for Media Literacy
50 state database - learn where media literacy fits in your state's teaching standardsAbout Newspapers
Newspaper Association of America
New Media Transformation

Multimedia Curriculum

http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/ss/ss97.htm
http://www.iste.org/
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Plan/NatTechPlan/ 1996

Information Literacy

The American Library Association Sign Writing
by Valerie Sutton is a way to read, write, and type the movements of signed languages.

Visual Literacy

The International Visual Literacy Association
Digital Images and the New Visual Literacy

Media Literacy

Media Literacy - Learning about Advertising free resources with colleagues, students (or any tween in your life), and parents.

The FTC is doing excellent work in the creation of educational material. I hope you have also looked at their NetCeteria guide for parents on Internet safety . Also for high school students, this OnGuardOnline site will provide excellent instructional resources.

*Admongo* The Federal Trade Commissions newest program for educators, students, and parents .

Advertising to American kids is nothing new. But the Internet and other technologies have taken kids exposure to it to new levels: ads are virtually everywhere. Thats why the FTC created Admongo, a new campaign to raise advertising literacy among the nations tweens.

Admongo is designed to equip kids ages 8 to 12 with critical thinking skills they can use to understand advertising messages. Watch the video or read the announcement from the FTC for more information.


Teachers can use Admong o a game-based website as well as a free curriculum for 5th and 6th grade to help their students recognize, analyze, and understand advertising. (The curriculum, developed with Scholastic, meets national standards for language arts and social studies.) Other free sample ads resources to use in the classroom and several family activities .
share this public domain game. You can link to it, grab graphics for your website, and use the information in a blog post or newsletter.

EDUCATIONAL USES OF WIKI IN THE CLASSROOM

"Wiki as a Teaching Tool"

Wikis and other emergent technologies are beginning to fill a gaping void in existing practice (Lamb, 2004). They enable extremely rich, flexible collaborations that have positive psychological consequences for their participants and powerful competitive ones for their organizations (Evans and Wolf, 2005). Collaborative creativity promises to be a key business skill in upcoming years. Educational institutions can offer immense value to their students by familiarizing them with the simple technologies that make collaborative networks possible. Today's students will not only manage business innovations of the future, but in many cases will drive them. Rather than being limited to today's skills, students must learn the skills of the future. Educators need to teach what wikis and other social software may mean to business, not just as a phenomenon, but also as a skill (Evans, 2006). By incorporating wikis into the classroom, educators can better prepare students to make innovative uses of collaborative software tools. [ 1 ]

TEACHING WITH WIKIS

"Wikis are Web pages that can be viewed and modified by anyone with a Web browser and Internet access. Described as a composition system, a discussion medium, and a repository, wikis support asynchronous
communication and group collaboration online." [ 2 ]