itsummit2009keynotetidbits

IT Summit 2009 Keynote Tidbits (in absolute rough form ... many for my own reference)

Let's just say the one word ... literacy. No more are we talking about programs, brandnames, and technology. We are talking about literacy in the 21st century. This conference totally focused on literacies such as: media literacy, social literacy, newsliteracy, moral literacy, and many more

[]. Some of his slides ... []. An interview with the guy ... []

I did learn from Jamie MacKenzie's keynote of reading and comprehending across a dozen information literacies that we need to rethink our basic principles on reading. The reality is that students are not reading novels anymore but consume text in many unorthodox yet valid ways. We need to leverage these ways and direct the students to meaningful yet relevant media literacies such as twitter, facebook, wikis, blogs, texting and let them participate!

=David Warlick – Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century =

Selfpublishing - lulu.com

Information Overlead - more is not necissarily better but the iNet has allowed the AVG Joe to share compelling information.

Video based education is so powerful ... A school without fine arts is not a school it is a factory.

A true school is a literacy based school - exposing, employing the info, ethical.

Redefine literacy, start a real focus on it and stop teaching to and integrating technologies.

werenotafraid.com - uk attacks response.


 * Personal Learning Networks - David Warlick**

cool ideas .... post ideas on page .. ie 4pics ... then ask students to work together and find out who they are.

[] ... knitter.

Social Networks ...need to be directed - wikispaces shapes!

Bloggers often blog about other bloggers... warlicks blog is 2cents. classroom20.ning.com - 20000 members ( I follow this one already) twitter / virtual worlds(seocnd life etc.) technoratti - people converssations! Searchable.- by key tags

delisci.us.com - search tool ... it is searchable!

rss - gathering meaningful data ...

network visualization / concept tracking! twib? []

tag clouds! twitscoop.

the internet is a sandbox ... we contruct as we see fit! Play where we want! Networks happen!

=The Student Panel= The conference ended with the students discussing their ejournalism project. Although I have seen and participated in many ejournalism projects I really liked how they culminated this years. David Warlick simply asked them provoking questions and the students responded. In many ways we could see how the own students education is out of touch with what they perceive as learning and the 21st Century being. One question that I really appreciated related to gaming and who taught them how to play the wide variety of ever increasingly complex games they play ... they either self taught or a friend showed them the basic moves and they grew from there. This reedifies the facts that we as teachers need to focus on process and meaningful content and not on the tools themselves.

"In the age of participatory media, it's mandatory that we rethink how we gather content, deliver content, and engage students with learning technology. It's not a one-way medium anymore--that's what's so exciting, and that's exactly where our students are trailblazers. If we can listen to them and collaborate with them, we are going to be doing well." summarized from comments made at the session.