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2011pp107Week5

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You are viewing the sidebar for the Multiliteracies course

given in September-October 2011 for TESOL, pp107.

For the most current version, please click on the links in the SideBar at right.

Be patient, this material has not been revised yet for the September 2011 PP107 version of the course

Feb 7 - Feb 13 , 2010 - Consolidation, Exhibit e-portfolios

Theme: Many baas & ^^^^: An ecological lens

FINALLY, we put here issues that come up during the first 5 weeks and address them in the context of the five lenses from our course text by Mark Pegrum. Of course, our participants might have other ideas. In that case, we'll go with the flow.

Content

Educause/NMC's Horizon Project Report: http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Main_Page
Impacts of technology with anticipated time-to-adoption 1 year, 2-3 years, and 3-5 years
Another framework from Selber, S. (2004). Multiliteracies for a digital age. Southern Illinois University Press

Functional literacy: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/event_cycle5.htm
Critical literacy : http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/event_cycle6.htm
Rhetorical literacy : http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/event_cycle7.htm

Synchronous discussion

What issues have come up during this course and how can we couch these issues in the frameworks we have looked at?

Projects

Participants can present their e-portfolios or any artifacts created in conjunction with this course

Tools

Participants use tools most appropriate to their presentations

We suggest the following for additional insights and information ...

What directions and tangents might multiliteracies and educational technology take in the coming years?

Let's start with the past. Here Stephen Downes updates some predictions from ten years ago ...

http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2008/11/future-of-online-learning-ten-years-on_16.html

Lidija Davis makes some Predictions Across the Web

Her last resource cited is the Future of the Internet III from the Pew Internet and American Life Project

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2009_predictions_across_the_we.php

Future of the Internet III - http://www.elon.edu/docs/e-web/predictions/2008_survey.pdf

How might the following impact education with respect to multiliteracies?

Technology stakeholders and critics were asked in an online survey to assess scenarios about the future social, political, and economic impact of the Internet and they said the following:

• The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the Internet for most people in the

world in 2020.

• The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily

yield more personal integrity. social tolerance, or forgiveness.

• Talk and touch user-interfaces with the Internet will be more prevalent and accepted by

2020.

• Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in

a continuing “arms race,” with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share content

without payment.

• The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual

reality will be further erased for everyone who’s connected, and the results will be mixed in terms

of social relations.

• “Next-generation” engineering of the network to improve the current Internet architecture is

more likely than an effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch.

The future of the Internet and HOW TO STOP IT

is a great open eBook by Jonathan Zittrain, which you can download free from http://futureoftheinternet.org/.

The book characterizes the wild west past of the Internet (free, open source, and generative, but plagued with concomitant problems from hackers, uneven quality control) vs the way it's trending now, toward locked down appliance apps where vendors control qualilty (that's good) but also what you can do with and add to the app (that's not so good). The book's last chapter is about what we can do to reconcile these forces, before it's too late (gulp!).

ePortfolios

Jennifer Verschoor found some resources on eportolios and posted them to our YahooGroup list