When and Where Did I Find It: I was reading the NCTE website about the upcoming National Conference and I noticed that the authors who were awarded the 2011 Orbis Pictus Awards were going to be featured at the conference.
Full citation NCTE. (online). Orbis Pictus Awards. Retrieved from http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus (11.03.11).
What it means: According to NCTE,
"The Orbis Pictus Award was established by the Elementary Section of the National Council of Teachers of English in 1989 to honor nonfiction for children. For the 2010 award, the seven members of the committee read, evaluated, and discussed over 350 books submitted by publishers to select an award winner, five honor books, and eight recommended books. "
(NCTE, http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus Retrieved, 11/03/11)
Level of Familiarity: Although I knew this category of award winners existed, I could not have placed the name of the award if asked.
Do I Want to Know This Word Well and Why? Yes, I do want to remember the Orbis Pictus Awards. Even in my YA Literature class, it would be useful for me to share this additional award classification with my secondary students as well as the more well known awards such as the Printz Award, National Book Award, and others.
Do I Think Others Should Know This Word Well...if so WHO and WHY?
I think all K-12 educators (and teacher educators) should be aware of the Orbis Pictus Awards. I also think my current LTED 625 students might be interested in knowing about the most recent award winners, since they might want to see if any of these recent winners would be useful to use as supplementary materials for the students they are responsible for in their Content Area Multigenre Project.
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Friday, November 4, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
8.1 Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
When and Where Did I Find It: I found this term on page 644 of Ikpeze and Boyd's (2007) artlcle. They write: "The Internet and other information and communication technologies (CTs) have the potential to revolutionize teaching and learning through purposeful integration of technology for thoughtful and critical literacy" (p. 644).
Full citation:
Ikepze, C.H. & Boyd, F.B. (2007). Web-based inquiry learning: Facilitating thoughtful literacy with WebQuests. The Reading Teacher, 60(7), 644-654. doi:10.1598/RT.60.7.5
What It Means: This term is used to identify the specific types of computer and digital technologies used most recently used to construct and compose informational texts. The authors note that "ICTs are ever-changing (Leu, et.al.) at the same, the best to identify these technologies is to look for the qualities of the new literacies of the Internet [which] enable learners to search for, retrieve, and critically evaluate Internet resources; collaborate; and construct new knowledge" (Ikpeze & Boyd, p. 645). I also found a great secondary source which provides a definition for ICTs on tutor2u
Level of Familiarity: I had not seen this particular term used before when identifying multimedia literacy tools.
Do I Want to Know This Word Well and Why? Yes. I think there is some advance to knowing and being able to use this term -- especially since I think it helps me to be able to better answer students" (and colleagues') questions regarding the "newness" of technology. When I use the term New Literacy or New Literacy Technologies, sometimes people ask -- what's so new about these tools? I think the definition that the authors (and Leu et. al) provide help to distinguish this type of literacy practice from traditional information literacy practices.
Do I Think Others Should Know This Word Well...if so WHO and WHY?: I certainly think Literacy Specialist, particularly my LTED 625 students would find this term useful. Even this semester some students have asked...what makes literacy "new"? What makes technology "new"? I think knowing this term might help to clarify some of their confusion.
Full citation:
Ikepze, C.H. & Boyd, F.B. (2007). Web-based inquiry learning: Facilitating thoughtful literacy with WebQuests. The Reading Teacher, 60(7), 644-654. doi:10.1598/RT.60.7.5
What It Means: This term is used to identify the specific types of computer and digital technologies used most recently used to construct and compose informational texts. The authors note that "ICTs are ever-changing (Leu, et.al.) at the same, the best to identify these technologies is to look for the qualities of the new literacies of the Internet [which] enable learners to search for, retrieve, and critically evaluate Internet resources; collaborate; and construct new knowledge" (Ikpeze & Boyd, p. 645). I also found a great secondary source which provides a definition for ICTs on tutor2u
Level of Familiarity: I had not seen this particular term used before when identifying multimedia literacy tools.
Do I Want to Know This Word Well and Why? Yes. I think there is some advance to knowing and being able to use this term -- especially since I think it helps me to be able to better answer students" (and colleagues') questions regarding the "newness" of technology. When I use the term New Literacy or New Literacy Technologies, sometimes people ask -- what's so new about these tools? I think the definition that the authors (and Leu et. al) provide help to distinguish this type of literacy practice from traditional information literacy practices.
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| Donald Leu (photo taken from UConn webpage http://www.education.uconn.edu/ directory/details.cfm?id=46) |
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