Web+Literacy

 This is a very challenging moment for educators. Our children are headed for a much more networked existence, one that allows for learning to occur 24, 7, 365, one that renders physical space much less important for learning, one that will challenge the relevance of classrooms as currently envisioned, and one that challenges our roles as teachers and adult learners.
 * Our Challenge:**


 * The World is Changing**
 * “This is a period of prolonged and profound transition in the ways we relate to communication and information.” [|Henry Jenkins]
 * [|Toyota overtakes GM in world car sales.]
 * In just a decade’s time, we’ll have gone from half the world never having made a telephone call to half the world owning a phone. ([|Mark Pesce)]
 * UNESCO says there will be more "educated people" in the next 30 years than in the sum of human history to date. (Cited in the TED Talks video with [|Sir Ken Robinson].)
 * The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that most American workers will change jobs between 10 and 14 times by age 38.
 * "Hypertransparent and hyperconnected world." Dov Seidman, [|How]


 * The Change: The Read/Write Web**
 * It's as easy to create and publish content as it is to consume it.
 * "[|Web 2.0]"**The Web is Changing Politics**
 * "The YouTube Campaign" --[|Jeff Jarvis]
 * The [|YouTube Debates] (NCLB Question)
 * YouTube "[|You Choose]" Page
 * [|Barack Obama]--500,000 members, 8,000 affinity groups
 * [|ObamaTwitter]
 * [|Texas Precinct Wiki]
 * [|The Machinery of Hope] (Rolling Stone)
 * [|Mike Huckabee] and [|supporter created video]
 * [|Local politics], too. (Nashua Teachers)
 * David Cameron's [|YouTube Channel]
 * Obama sends text message to supporters about [|Vice Presidential Choice]


 * The Web is Changing Government**
 * [|US Intelligence Agencies are using wikis] to communicate and collect information more effectively. ("Open Source Spying")
 * [|The United Nations is using wikis] to help decision making processes. (MSNBC)
 * [|Australian Government Caught Editing Wikipedia] (The Age)


 * The Web is Changing Journalism/Media**
 * "My readers know more than I do." --Dan Gillmor
 * [|USA Today] example (Gray Googler's article)
 * [|We all make editorial decisions] for the group. (Digg.com)
 * Anyone can have [|his/her own TV station] today. (14-year old political commentator)
 * Traditional models for music and movies are quickly becoming obsolete
 * [|Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog] from the New York Times Magazine
 * Nine Inch Nails is providing it's [|new collection of mp3s for free with a Creative Commons license].
 * [|Surfthechannel.com] Any movie or TV show streamed to your computer.
 * Or [|MyGazines.com], where you can access any magazine you like.

> > > Source: Will Richardson [|Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 License]
 * [[image:http://www.gapingvoid.com/ms2126B-thumb.jpg align="left" caption="external image ms2126B-thumb.jpg"]]The Web is Changing Business**
 * Markets are conversations AND relationships, not transactions or products. Advertising is not a relationship. ([|Cluetrain Manifesto]
 * Look at the conversations about [|Amazon's Kindle e-book reader].
 * Take a look at how Cisco sees the new "[|Human Network] " where "you subscribe to people, not magazines."
 * The [|Goldcorp story] (Canadian Mining Company)
 * "This generation will transform the workplace and the way business is conducted to an extent not witnessed since the "organization man" of the 1950s." Don Tapscott, Wikinomics, pg. 54
 * IBM has 26,000 blogs, 20,000 wikis, it's own social bookmarking program, and 400,000 full and part-time employees participating in a My Space like social networking system. (Wall Street Journal, 6.18.07, quoted [|here].)
 * Accenture, which spent $700 million on education last year, says its 38,000 consultants and most of its service workers take course on collaborating with offshore colleagues. ([|Business Week])

This video from Michael Welsch, a professor at Kansas State University explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.
 * __We are in an information revolution__**

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 * Using the tools wisely, not blocking the tools.
 * "If we do not teach our students how to think critically about this media, they will not have the ability to separate the message from the medium."

Alan November 6. [|Partnership for 21st Century Skills-ICT Literacy] 7. [|What does this look like]? 8. [|ISTE Standards for Students] 9. [|Massachusetts Technology Literacy Standards] 10. Questions to think about
 * [|ICT Literacy Maps]
 * How much control should our schools exert when it comes to providing student access to powerful information and social tools?
 * How much should we tap these same tools to help students discover their way in a fast changing world?

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11. Go to [|Victorian Robot Websit]e 12. Evaluate this [|websit]e for authenticity. 13. Compare and contrast this [|websit]e with the one in #12.
 * Are the pictures real?
 * Is the website real?
 * How can you tell?

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14. Go to your mixed groups, download this [|Web Literacy Worksheet 1.doc] to your computer, and complete the worksheet.