NELMS 2015Literacy Gone WILD:

Engaging Students in Vocabulary & Analysis

Jacqueline Hanlon

@jbhanlon jhanlon@sau56.org

Somersworth Middle School

Somersworth, NH

Define Literacy:WHAT IS LITERACY?

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

Discuss with the people in your circle: What is Literacy?

Collaborate to synthesize your ideas into one definition.

Choose a speaker to stand & share your tables definition with the group. Cards For

Education

Literacy• The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines literacy as the "ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.• Literacy involves a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in their community and wider society.

That’s a lot to accomplish in 75 minutes!

Why Change? If it Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It

EVOLUTION •With Your Group Read the Directions on Your Envelope

•Collaborate to Accomplish the Task

• Everyone in Your Group Needs to Participate

•You Have 5 Minutes

Times They Are A Changing…• 30 Years Ago in Education – 1984- • Spirit Duplicators or Ditto Machines were in full use,

• Floppy Disks, VCR, Cassette Tapes, Slide Projectors, MS DOS,

Polaroid, Fax Machines, 110 Cameras, Dust Free Chalkboards,

Video Companions to Textbooks

• 1 Computer for Every 92 Students in Public Schools 1984

• 1ST Cell Phone Came Out – Wasn’t a problem with students

as it cost $4000 and weighed 2 Pounds

Times They Are A Changing…

• 20 Years Ago- 1994-

• Xerox Machines, Pagers, 1st Version of Internet Comes out, AOL- Dial Up, CD Players, CD-ROMS,

• Disposable Cameras, Apple Color Macs, Dry-Erase Boards, CD Companions to Textbooks, Overhead Projectors, 1st Laptops

Times They Are A Changing…• 10 Years Ago- 2004- Smart-boards, IPODS, MP3

Players, Commercial Cell Phones & Texting, Pre-Paid Plans, Computers in Homes, • Netbooks, Bluetooth, Napster, Online Text Books,

Podcasts, E-Readers, Digital Projector Systems, Clickers- Student Response Systems, Document Cameras

Times They Are A Changing…• 5 Years Ago-2009 to Now IPADs, Facebook,

Twitter, Snapchat, Glogster, Prezi, Apple TV, Blogs, Videocasts, Facetime, iMeeting, FlashDrives, SmartPhones

What’s The Point:

PERSPECTIVE- UNDERSTANDING- GROWTH

These Kids are NOT the Same…They Don’t Care About the Same

Things…They Don’t Live in the Same World…How Can We Possibly Expect to Teach Them the Same Things in the Same

Way?

1984- Space Shuttle Challenger 4ATARI- Michael Jackson

1994- Sarajevo, Kurt Cobain, &Whitney Houston

2004- MARS, Iraq & Afghanistan, Beyonce

2014-2015: What do Today’s Students Need?

•Challenge•Choice•Voice•MOVEMENT• Interaction•Collaboration•Technology

SELF ASSESSMENT:If you look at each of these areas and you were to reflect on your OWN practice, and what happens in your OWN classroom:

How would you rate yourself in each of the following areas?

(5- I DO THIS ALL THE TIME)(4- I DO THIS MOST OF THE TIME)(3- I DO THIS SOME OF THE TIME)(2- I DO THIS ON OCCASION)(1- I DON’T DO THIS)

REFLECTION: What are some ways you could do this? How can you improve your practice in each of these areas?

That Doesn’t Look Like This Anymore:

Time to Get Wild!• Challenge

• Choice

• Voice

• MOVEMENT

• Interaction

• Collaboration

•Technology Vocab

Wiki’sWhat happens when the tech doesn’t work?

VOCABULARY: Time to Get Wild!•Challenge•Choice•Voice•Movement• Interaction•Collaboration•Technology

ANALYSIS: Time to Get Wild!•Challenge•Choice•Voice•Movement• Interaction•Collaboration•Technology

Conversations About Text• Similar to the game Cards Against Humanity, students collaborate, and engage in

collaborative discussion around literature, text content, current events, or non-fiction.

• Each group member receives 2-3 white cards (replenish as needed). Then one person is chosen as discussion leader. The discussion leader turns over a BLACK card and reads it aloud to the group. The other group members then write their best answer on one of their WHITE cards, and put them face down in the center of the table.

• The WHITE cards are then shuffled and the discussion leader reads the BLACK card again followed by the WHITE cards, then chooses the one he/she feels is best. The group member whose answer is chosen gets that BLACK card, and the role of discussion leader rotates to the next person.

• At the end of the activity the person with the most BLACK card- WINS!http://humanity.toadgrass.com/

WHAT DOES THIS LOOK LIKE IN MY CLASS?

ChallengeChoice

Voice

Movement

Interaction

CollaborationTechnolog

y

AMLE 2014: Presentationhttps://sites.google.com/site/literacygonewild/

Questions, Evaluations, & Handouts

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