Professional+Resources

Hi everyone!

We can use this page to post ideas we might have for professional development. We can also use the discussion tab for a place to discuss ideas we have!

Multiple Literacies

Hi everyone, I know we briefly discussed multiple literacies on the Pro-D day where we talked about wikis and stuff, but I thought I'd post this information I found on the CUEBC site (Computer Using Educators of BC).

What is Teaching to the Multiple Literacies?
Literacy is the desire and ability to make and share meaning in order to gain access and make a contribution to valued resources of the culture. Literate individuals seek, understand, internalize, and apply new information for environmental, occupational, informational, and recreational purposes. Literacy adopts the belief that the reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing processes are intertwined. This conference is focused on how teaching to the multiple literacies can be supported by the integration of technology into all curricular areas. Our conference themes are:

Technology Literacy
Technological literacy, a broad understanding of the human-designed world and our place in it, is an essential quality for all people who live in the increasingly technology-driven 21st century. It is the ability to responsibly use appropriate technology to communicate, solve problems, and access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information to improve learning in all subject areas and to acquire lifelong knowledge and skills.

Information Literacy
The competencies and skills students need to locate, retrieve, evaluate, analyze, and use information. These competencies are developed over time and are essential for lifelong learning. Information literacy includes specific components:
 * //Tool literacy// - The ability to use print and electronic resources including software.
 * //Resource literacy// - The ability to understand the form, format, location and access methods of information resources.
 * //Social-structural literacy// - Knowledge of how information is socially situated and produced. It includes understanding the scholarly publishing process.
 * //Research literacy// - The ability to understand and use information technology tools to carry our research including discipline-related software.
 * //Publishing literacy// - The ability to produce a text or multimedia report of the results of research.

**Reading** **and Writing Literacy**
Involves the construction and conveying of meaning through the deliberate activation of a variety of skills, strategies and schemata during transactions with text.

**Visual Literacy**
The ability to encode and decode thoughts and information to and from visual media. It involves the transforming of thinking and communication into graphical representations. Visual communication takes place when people are able to construct meaning from the visual media.

Social Literacy
The ability to communicate and collaborate in a shared environment for the purpose of building knowledge. Cari

Whoops I went to the discussion tab, Cari.

hi cari i think we could probably use a whole day on learning how to use and create links on wiki. the last morning was great but not everyone is computer savey and I think we need time to play and really **get connected**!!! hahaha... Good One! Cari od one! Cari

Ok now i am inviting all RI teachers who get on this page to please just add a brief comment so that we know you are here :>

Hello, just a note, I didn't check this page out realizing we could put pro-d ideas on this page so I modified the Page titled "Professional Development" to accommodate suggestions for future pro-d days. Please add your ideas to that page; thank you for doing so already, Tina. Scott