Icebreaker
What was your first computer?
Traditional Literacy & Digital
Literacy
What is your definition literacy?
What would you consider a text?
Definitions
•Literacy is the ability to read and
write coherently for meaning and
knowledge.
•The written word, body language,
media
•Digital Literacy is the ability to use
technology and read digital texts.
(IRA)
The ability to read, write, and interact
across multiple platforms, both
traditional and digital.
Dr. Alan Liu, English
Department, UCSB
Tuckman, Bruce. (1965).
“Developmental sequence in small
groups.”
How Can We Use Social Networks to Bridge the
Gap Between the Classroom Community and
Students’ Social Communities?
Past and Present
Generations
• Traditionalists: 1900-1945
• Baby Boomers: 1946-1964
• Generation X: 1965-1977
• Generation Y (The Millennials): 19781995
• Generation Z (The New Millennials):
1996-now
Changing Definitions of
Community
• Traditionalists: Respect authority, personal
contact,
technology=radio
• Baby Boomers: Questioned authority, phone
contact, technology=tv
• Generation X:
Independent, email contact,
technology=computers
• Millennials &
• New Millennials Independent, text/email/IM
contact,
technology=internet
Digital Natives vs.
Digital Immigrants
Terms coined by Marc Prensky in his article
“Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” (2001).
Digital Immigrants: Generations that did not
grow up with computer technology and, thus,
are skeptical of it.
Digital Natives: Generations that were born into
computer technology and, thus, view it as
necessary and essential.
PEW Research Center
August 2011
•Most students will take online classes, predict 50% of college
presidents.
•More than half the textbooks used by undergrads will be
entirely digital, predict 42% of college presidents.
•41% of college presidents say students are allowed to use
laptops or other portable devices during class.
•87% of college presidents use a smartphone daily. 83% use a
desktop computer and 65% use a laptop. 49% use a tablet,
and 42% use an e-reader.
Gartner Survey on Digital
Reading Preferences
April 2011
The time people spend reading on
a digital screen is now almost
equal to the time spent reading
printed paper text.
Students’ Reading and
Writing Habits
Websites Further
Examined
Using Social Networks
in the Classroom
Facebook (social network website): class groups,
discussion posts, reminders, and creative projects.
Twitter (social networking and microblogging): class
discussions, reminders, connections to the community.
Google Docs (web-based word processor): allows for
real time collaboration, store and share documents.
Tumblr (blogging site): allows for group discussion on
a topic or essay.
Questions
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of
using social networking in an academic setting?
2. Is it appropriate to have facebook (or other
social networking) groups for students or should
online communities be kept to school websites?
3. Would you incorporate social networking into
your classroom?
4. Do you think that incorporating social networking
into academia will aid or hurt students as they
move on from being students in the 21st century?
Challenges
•Student participation
•Making the online spaces “normal” not classroom
•Access to technology
Institutions’ contracts with Blackboard or Angel
•Lack of wi-fi in classrooms
•Finding a balance between Contextualizing Content and being
overly content focused.
•Cyber Citizenship
Benefits
•Create transferring skills they have to academic
environments through authentic tasks.
•Students learn skills that will help them think critically
about “digital texts”
•Students are engaged in the material and assignments
• Develop transferrable skills for future college classes and
the work world
•Helping students bridge the digital divide
•Create a community that can go beyond the classroom
Ways to Get Started
 Transliteracy Level 1
 Add one type of online element to a unit of
your class make it optional for students
 Transliteracy Level 2
 Add a transliteracy unit or assignment that
uses an online element
 Transliteracy Level 3
 Fully intergrate a social community online
and have students analyze online texts, as
well as create a working definition of a
cyber bill of rights.
Thanks for Coming!
Please email us for more information:
Amy Leonard leonardamy@fhda.edu
Sarah Lisha lishasarah@fhda.edu
OR check out Amy’s website:
www.deanza.edu/faculty/leonardamy/innovations