Group 3: Benjamin Chiou, Daniel Gaffan, Melissa West,
Terrell Turner, Eric Jungbluth
What is Literacy?
Literacy has long been
associated with the
ability to read and write
 The Random House
Dictionary includes an
alternate definition of
literacy, the “possession
of education”1
 Therefore, as technology
in education is
continually advancing, so
to does our definition of
literacy evolve
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/literacy
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The 21st Century Classroom
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President Obama’s view on classroom
technology and the importance of
modern literacy:
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“To give our children the chance to live out their dreams
in a world that's never been more competitive, we will
equip tens of thousands of schools, community colleges,
and public universities with 21st century classrooms, labs,
and libraries. We'll provide new computers, new
technology, and new training for teachers so that
students in Chicago and Boston can compete with kids in
Beijing for the high-tech, high-wage jobs of the future,”2
So what are some of the different
forms of literacy present in the “21st
century classrooms”?
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Computer Literacy Helps
Students:
Utilize word processing applications.
 Use the internet for research and
exploratory learning.
 Make use of email, webcams, and social
networking sites for communicating.
 Utilize data processing programs such
as excel to help organize and analyze
data.
 Create and compose digital media.
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This graph shows the increase in Internet users
and how Internet Literacy has increased within
the last 7 years.
•When
This picture shows how certain people do not have the
proper internet literacy and believe everything that is
found on certain websites.
thinking about the Internet, it is necessary to
look at how large it is and how fast it is growing.
•There are 10 basic Internet services: Email, listserv,
newsgroups, chats, instant messaging,
videoconferencing, File Transfer Protocol, the World
Wide Web, the Rich Site Summary and blogging.
•The internet has become a place full of
online resources in which anyone can
publish their own “facts”. By having the
proper “internet literacy”, individuals
can distinguish between what is true
and false on the internet.
Visual Literacy
“Visual literacy is the ability
to interpret, negotiate, and
make meaning from
information presented in the
form of an image. Visual
literacy is based on the idea
the pictures can be “read” and
that meaning can be
communicated through a
process of reading.”
 “Visual literacy in
education develops a
student's visual literacy- their
ability to comprehend, make
meaning of, and
communicate through visual
means, usually in the form of
images or multimedia.”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_literacy_in_education
An example of ways Visual Literacy
helps students
Visual Literacy in Education
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
A teacher using a SmartBoard
as Visual Literacy
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Students are using and are
exposed to many different types
of multimedia in the classroom
and are expected to know how to
use things such as Microsoft
PowerPoint and MovieMaker to
create and to watch presentations
in the classroom.
To teach visual literacy, it is very
important to give your children
the resources and exposure they
need to create this type of
presentation, but to also to allow
children to understand and think
critically about what they are
being presented.
Blogs and wikis are being
commonly used in classrooms to
relay information, discuss, and
turn in assignments.
In conclusion, new technology forces us
to rethink our conventional ideas about
literacy…
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