David Warlick, in his Thursday morning presentation, challenged attendees to redefine literacy for the uncertain future. Sounding pretty Big6-ish at first, he suggested literacy was about finding, evaluating, and applying/contextualizing info; then inferring/building meaning and organizing it into personal digital libraries.
Fun happened when he opined that we educators need to “Stop integrating technology – start integrating literacy and teaching kids to teach themselves.”
Loved the tag-cloud comparisons, using Tag Crowd, of FDR’s Day That Shall Live in Infamy and Churchill’s Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat speeches — two stirring 20th c. come-to-war speeches. Why *are* those tag clouds — keyword-frequencies — so different looking? Have at it, Social Studies and English teachers…
