CoiroIRA2011SecSIG

Julie Coiro, University of Rhode Island (jcoiro@mail.uri.edu)
 * Emerging Insights and Online Opportunities To Empower 21st Century Adolescents and Their Teachers **
 * Presented at the International Reading Association's Secondary Reading SIG Session, May 2011 **

Julie began by sharing emerging data and insights about online literacy practices among adolescents and classroom teachers in school contexts. Then she shared several sets of emerging realities with promising possibilities about how to empower adolescents with digitally networked resources such as electronic anticipation guides and inquiry-based challenges. She also briefly described the process of capturing real-time data to foster teachers’ awareness of online literacies and how to use student process data to inform instructional decisions. At the end, Julie outlined five key steps toward preparing teens to be innovative critical thinkers in a global information society. Links to the resources shared during the session are included below.

Download a pdf of Julie's powerpoint presentation


 * Reality: Global Contexts for Learning**
 * **Creativity and Innovation**
 * [|The World is Flat]
 * [|The Global Achievement Gap] (and [|Video Interview with Tony Wagner])
 * [|A Nation At Risk - Revised] (by Young Zhao)
 * **Knowledge Transformation**
 * [|Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills]
 * **Global Competence and Cultural Resiliency**
 * The Asia Society's Conception of [|Global Competence]
 * [|Global Competence 2008 Task Force Report]
 * [|Cultural Resiliency]
 * **National Educational Standards**
 * [|Common Core State Standards]
 * [|Partnership for 21st Century Skills]
 * [|Standards for the 21st Century Learner](American Association of School Librarians)
 * **International Accountability**
 * Common Core State Standards Assessment Initiatives: [|Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium] and [|Achieve: Partnership for Assessment of College Readiness and Careers]
 * [|ETS ISkills (2009)]
 * [|Program for International Student Assessment [PISA (2009)]]
 * [|Program for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) (2011)]


 * Reality: Teens and Technology Use**
 * [|Generation M2: Media in the lives of 8-18 year olds] (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2010)
 * Pew Internet [|Teens and Technology Report (2005)]
 * [|The Horizon Report 2011]
 * [|Are teens too dumb for complex texts?](Mark Bauerlein, Educational Leadership, February 2011)
 * [|The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains] (Nicholas Carr, 2010) - [|NPR Interview with Nicholas Carr]
 * [|IBrain: Surviving the Technological Alternation of the Modern Mind] (Small & Vorgan, 2008)


 * Reality: Teachers and Technology Use**
 * [|Access, Adequacy, & Equity in Education Technology in America's Public Schools] (NEA/AFT, 2008)
 * [|Educational Technology in Public Schools] (NCES, 2010)
 * Teacher's mindsets and developmental phases of adoption - [|Understanding Technology Adoption]


 * Promising Possibilities**
 * [|Electronic Anticipation Guides]
 * Curriculum-Based Information Challenges
 * Using Video as Formative Assessment and Professional Development - Example [|Set One], [|Set Two], and [|Set Three]
 * Flipping the Classroom - [|Shorter Video] and [|Salman Kahn's Longer Video]
 * [|Introduction to Comprehensive Assessment] (from Edutopia)
 * Question Matrix - Resources to explore and [|SmartBoard template] as well as applying to a news article [[file:question_matrix.pdf]]
 * [|The Learning Network] (lesson plans with "going further" components that hint at a starting point for inquiry possibilities within disciplines)
 * [|PBS American Experience] (other inspiring sources for inquiry to engage students to read and think across multiple texts)
 * Online Resources to Explore
 * [|Instructional Strategies for Critically Evaluating Online Information] (Julie Coiro)
 * [|Using Interactive Texts to Inspire Active Engagement with Content Area Reading and Writing] (Julie Coiro)
 * [|Coiro, J. & Fogleman, J. (2011). Using websites wisely. Educational Leadership, 68(5), 34-38.]
 * [|Coiro, J. (2011). Talking about reading: Modeling the hidden complexities of online reading comprehension. Theory Into Practice, 50(2), 107-115]. Companion website at []
 * Enhancing Internet Comprehension Using Reciprocal Teaching in [|Elementary School] (Jill Castek) and [|Middle School](Greg McVerry, Lisa Zawilinski, & Ian O'Byrne)
 * [|Writing Online Persuasive Texts with Online Role-Playing Activities] (Rick Beach)
 * [|Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues - Procon.org]
 * [|Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project]
 * [|Coiro, J. (2009). Rethinking reading assessment in a digital age. Educational Leadership, 66, 59-63.]


 * Next Steps **


 * 5...READ and explore **
 * [|The Horizon Report]
 * Emerging Online Tools for Composing and Sharing New Knowledge
 * [|New Literacies Perspective of Online Reading Comprehension]
 * [|Julie's Academia Website] for related publications about online reading instruction, assessment, and professional development


 * 4...REACH OUT and network**
 * IRA Technology in Literacy Education Special Interest Group (TILE-SIG)
 * [|New Literacies Collaborative Ning] (Friday Institute at North Carolina State)
 * [|Jim Burke's English Companion Ning]
 * [|NCTE Ning]


 * 3...PLAN**
 * Evaluate your readiness and establish a group and individual action plan
 * What about adapting this district implementation plan to address the PD needs with respect to new literacies and technology integration? [[file:DistrictImplementationPlan.doc]](Source: [|ELAchieve.org])


 * 2...REFLECT**
 * Join an Interdisciplinary faculty study group to keep you moving forward
 * Create a wiki to organize your professional development (Example: Scarsdale, New York)
 * New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute (2009, 2010, [|Summer 2011])
 * Temple University [|Media Education Lab Resources]
 * [|Knowledge Building in Action] International Mentorship Opportunities


 * 1....BLASTOFF and be prepared to ADAPT!**
 * Expect and welcome change as transformative progress in action