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It is an honor to be in Saskatoon, not quite so far north as Edmonton, but pretty close. They assure me that it shouldn’t be this cold this late in the year.
It is a special honor to be on the presenters list with some great notables and netables, such as Clarence Fisher, Dean Shareski, Alec Couros, and Cathy Cassidy. Having Jamie McKenzie is a lead in is enough to thrill any B-level keynote speaker. But I do my best.
My best today will have much less to do with technology than with information and with people. I start with the day-opening keynote, talking about literacy, the 3Rs, the ability to access, work, and communicate information — the basics. This is where we are, and it’s where we should be. No one can disagree and we’re all comfortable with it. Literacy remains a good leverage point to affect change. Look at my country’s No Child Left Behind (and weep). It’s about the basics (though I still consider writing to have been conspicuously missing).
The point is that our information environment has change dramatically in the last 20 years. Information has become increasginly networked (reading directly from the author), digital (it’s all made out of numbers), and abundant (overwhelming). What does it mean to be literate in a dramatically new information environment.
Redefine literacy, and intagrate that.
It starts, of course, with us. How many of us teachers are literate in terms of today’s information environment. My second presentation will be about teachers as master learners. There is a nebulous collection of tools and techniques that educators are using today to keep learning — walking into the classroom every day with something that they didn’t know yesterday. Most of the time, we call this our Personal Learning Network.
My final presentation is about play. It’s about how our students play outside the classroom and the very interesting affects that video games have on how they look at the word — and how they learn. Fun!
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