The Literacy Quest is NOT:
- Limited to "sit and get" (Wayne Morren)
- A Banking Model (Friere)
- Regurgitation on Demand
- Passive
- Disconnected from the real word
- Focused on Minimum Standards
The Literacy Quest IS About:
- Engaged Learning
- Intrinsic Motivation
- Critical, Independent Thinking
- Effective Communication
- Lifetime Learning
- Authentic Connections
- Creative Expression
- Achievement Beyond Expectations
My Message Today:
- The world is changing and so should the teaching and learning strategies we employ in the classroom.
- Podcasting can be used constructively as a disruptive technology in our quest for literacy.
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Defining Our Terms
- Podcasting and Podcatching
- Disruptive Technology
- Transmediation
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Definition: Podcasting
The above definition of broadcasting is from Dr. Jonathan Sterne in his presentation, "From Broad to Pod?: Histories of Transmission for the Digital Age" at the Duke University Podcasting Symposium, September 27 - 28, 2005. This presentation is available as a 1 hour, 5 minute podcast.
Definition: Podcatching
- Subscribing: Saving the RSS feed address in podcatching software
- Downloading: Transferring enclosure files from an Internet server to a PC
- Transferring: Copying saved audio enclosure files to a portable digital music device
- Listening: Via headphones, or speakers (computer, car, classroom, office or home)
- iPodder and iTunes are 2 free, popular podcatchers
Web 2.0 Characteristics
- Internet-based Tools
- Free - Open Source
- Empowers anyone to publish
- Distributed, Decentralized, Organic
- Interactive, not one way broadcast
- Inherently Disruptive
Web 2.0 Examples
Educational Uses of Podcasts
- Tool for the Teacher: 1 way broadcast
- Content Source: Whole class or individualized
- Classroom Publishing
- Student Projects
- Professional Development
- Platform for Digital Storytelling
Definition: Disruptive Technology
- "A disruptive technology is a new technological innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology in the market" (Wikipedia)
- A "sustaining technology refers to the successive incremental improvements to performance that market incumbents incorporate into their existing product." (Wikipedia)
- In educational contexts: Disruptive technologies fundamentally alter the teaching and learning landscape
- "RSS: Disruptive Technology Hiding in Plain Sight" by F. Andy Seidl
What Makes Podcasting Powerful?
- Powerful: Combination of RSS and MP3 (12% of CD audio)
- Ability to TIME and PLACE shift
- Growing ubiquity of Internet access
- Availability of free Web 2.0 and open source tools
- Popularity of portable digital music devices (like iPods)
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What Makes Podcasting Disruptive?
- Ability to publish audio at will
- Dramatic expansion of potential and authentic audience
- Disintermediation of the traditional "RCA-casting" means of production
- Authentic audience
- Potential for interactive communication
Implications of this Nature
- Statists will oppose it
- Lecturers fear students will not attend class
- Old media lose marketshare and advertising revenue
- A multitude of diverse voices can broadcast and interact
- Incredible access to authentic content
- Increased student motivation to write and communicate
Implications for Room 208
Definition: Transmediation
- "Transmediation refers to the process of "responding to cultural texts in a range of sign systems -- art, movement, sculpture, dance, music, and so on -- as well as in words." (Wikipedia)
- "Digital information comes in multiple forms, and students must learn to tell stories not just with words and numbers but also through images, graphics, color, sound, music, and dance. There is a grammar and literacy to each of these forms of communication. Bombarded with a wide variety of images regularly, students need sharp visual-interpretation skills to interact with the media analytically. Each form of communication has its own rules and grammar and should be taught in ways that lead students to be more specific and concise in communicating." ("Visually Speaking" by Leonard Shlain)
Consumers and Producers
- Transmediation: Engaging in multimedia consumption and producation
- Vast majority of classrooms: CONSUMPTION oriented
- 21st Century Need: Digital literacy acquired through frequent and critical transmediation
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Do Digital Natives Need Help?
"Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter" by Steven Johnson
Can We Afford This?
Global Discourse
Preparation for the Future
"With the advent of democracy and modern industrial conditions, it is impossible to foretell definitely just what civilization will be twenty years from now. Hence it is impossible to prepare the child for any precise set of conditions. To prepare him for the future life means to give him command of himself; it means so to train him that he will have the full and ready use of all his capacities; that his eye and ear and hand may be tools ready to command, that his judgment may be capable of grasping the conditions under which it has to work, and the executive forces be trained to act economically and efficiently. It is impossible to reach this sort of adjustment save as constant regard is had to the individual's own powers, tastes, and interests-say, that is, as education is continually converted into psychological terms."
(John Dewey, 1897)
What is Your Next Move?
Empower your pioneers!
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