Transcript Twenty-first Century Literacy

21st-Century Literacies
1650 Curriculum
(wealthy, male, English)
• Classic (Latin/Greek)
– Drama
– History
– Philosophy
• Law
• Religion
1850 Curriculum
(most whites complete primary)
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Geography
Foreign languages
English literature
Skills for work
2000 Curriculum
(87% G12; 23% BA)
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Remember the textbook
Follow directions
Work alone
Solve problems
Complete (“cover”) the curriculum
21st-Century
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Language
Knowledge
Work
Literacy
Technology
1. Language => Integrating
Knowledge
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Dying languages
New languages: World Englishes (China)
Merging: Hindi & English
Growing: New words
3,000 electronic journals
50,000,000 web users
Web Use
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20,000,000 hosts (in DNS)
80,000,000 internet users
3,000 electronic journals
2 x / year
college courses
– email: 8 -> 20 -> 25%
– www: 1 -> 6 -> 9%
Course Functions
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syllabus
assignments
research projects
questions
articles
data
interactive software
testing
www resources
US Primary Schools
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25-30 students
open layout
one teacher for all subjects
qualitative reports
multi-age classrooms
team teaching
K-6
2. Knowledge => Thinking
Critically
• Internationalization
• Interconnections of knowledge
• Need for collaboration, cross-cultural
understanding
3. Work => Collaborating
• By the end of this century knowledge
workers will make up a third or more of the
work force in the United States—as large a
proportion as manufacturing workers ever
made up, except in wartime.
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–Drucker, 1994
4. Literacy => Finding
Problems
• Book sales
• 50,000 scholarly journals
• More reading & writing in all aspects of life
5. Technology => Continuing to
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Email communities
Digital libraries
Virtual reality
Hypermedia, Web
Robotics
Ubiquitous computing
Examples
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Calling all men [2]
NASA [2]
Discoveries [2]
Internet: Long Walk to Freedom
The Computer Agent
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“Come Practice Now”
=> “Compress, now”
Non-interruptable operation
Hears, initiates, decides, ...?
Can we always pull the plug?
(Asimov’s three laws of robotics)
In the Future Already
• X-Files: on-line forum to discuss show’s direction
• Science fiction itself has remained the same. We
have caught up to it...We are a science-fiction
generation.
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–Ray Bradbury
• We can’t think far enough ahead anymore.
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Stratification
• Language, gender, race, class, nationality,
physical ability
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0, 1, 2, 3, ...
A, B, C, ...
$ and ¢
No ~, ç, ü
• Netiquette encodes male discourse
Surveillance & Control
• The road to freedom via a two-way Information
Highway may turn into a one-way Surveillance
Street, used to condition people’s thoughts and
control their behavior.
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– Crawford,1994
• Video surveillance is now so ubiquitous that we’re
on television more than we watch it.
• CSCW research (program committee)
Milling about
• Students using Quill
What will be the 2050
curriculum?
Learning...
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Integrating knowledge
Thinking critically
Collaborating
Finding problems
Learning how to learn
Closing
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Dramatic changes in our literacy practices
More democracy, liberatory education?
Technologies alone do not produce change
Need to understand & shape these changes
Call for dialogue