Description:
To be most effective, workers of the future will need to creatively combine several relatively traditional skills with emerging information and communication tools. And they need to practice those skills in an information landscape that is genre-shifting, multi-modal, media-rich, participatory, socially connected, and brilliantly chaotic. To be most effective, they will need understandings of traditional information structures as well as shifts in the way knowledge is built and organized
Through my librarian visioning glasses, I can see two threadsinformation fluency and Web 2.0-- beautifully woven into rich 21st century cloth as teachers and librarians who value thinking skills, inquiry, and quality innovative student work hone their craft on a funky and vibrant 21st century learning loom.
About that new threadWeb 2.0--it is colorful and thrilling. It draws an enthusiasm and an audience never before imagined. Our learners already use this thread, the emerging communication tools of the 21st century. The November 2005 Pew Study revealed that fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet could be considered Content Creators. They have created a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations.
About that other thread. . . The traditional strandinformation literacy-- is a sturdy material. It is fiber that many of us digital immigrants carried over in our trunks from the old country. It deserves to be unpacked and shared. This presentation will explore how the shifts we describe as Web 2.0 impact our instruction and are enhanced by a focuss on information fluency.
