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Reading through the descriptions for this preconference day, I am astounded by the range of content and ideas that will be shared with you today. From the basics to the opportunities of networked learning, to an emerging community of tool developers who have risen out of a new information landscape that is connected for conversation.
I will kick things off with the basics — re-booting the basics. You see, as technology has advanced over the past couple of decades, what has impacted even more on education and what it means to be educated, is the changing nature of information. Information has shape-shifted in ways that many are only now recognizing (publishing and recording industries to mention only two). Information has changed in:
- What it looks like.
- What we look at to view it.
- Where we find it.
- How we find it.
- What we can do with it.
- How we communicate it.
This all affects what it means to be literate — it respells the 3Rs into a range of skills that address an increasingly:
- Networked,
- Digital,
- Abundant
…information landscape.
I hope to convey some sense today of what this means in terms of what and how our students need to be learning today. In addition, contemporary literacy includes skills that teachers need to embrace and practice — learning literacies for cultivating their own personal learning networks.
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