We participated in an ISTE (International Society for Technology Educators) Webinar on December 8th and 9th on new media literacy presented by Dr. Jason Ohler (http://www.jasonohler.com/). The presentation focused on how "it is up to us to help digital kids “write the media they read” so they can be active media creators rather than just passive media consumers" (Ohler, 2009). Students must be able to write what they read and therefore migrate from literacy which is text centric to media collage. Dr. Ohler describes nine digital literacy action guidelines that are necessary for teachers to implement in order to teach new literacy. Digital Storytelling is one of Dr. Ohler's areas of expertise and through his presentation we see his passion for teaching students the literacies required to be successful in the digital age. He currently has a book available titled, "Digital Storytelling in the Classroom" and will soon be releasing his book, "Digital Citizenship and the ReImagination of Education.
The term "literacy", described by Ohler, is the consuming and producing of the media forms of the day, whatever they are (2009). He therefore believes we should help students develop a sense of wisdom and to get in touch with the power available to them.
On his webpage, Dr. Ohler provides a section titled, Beyond Words Literacy that discusses how the default media has shifted from the text based essay to the multimedia collage (fig.1). He believes it is necessary for us to teach students to be able to read, write and comprehend new literacy in formats provided today.
Figure 1 (Ohler, 2009)
- Shift from text-centricism to new media collage
- Value writing more than ever
- Adopt art as 4th, next R
- Follow DAOW (Digital, Art, Oral, Written) of literacy
- Attitude is the aptitude
- Practice private and social literacy
- Develop literacy about digital tools
- Fluency, not just literacy
- Harness both reports and story...embrace story
When creating a story it is important to consider the story first and the technology second. The three core elements of a story in education consist of inquiry (tension), discovery (resolution) and transformation (learning). Traditionally, stories began with an idea and developed through a storyboard and outline. A new approach to creating a story is called story mapping. Though mapping story creation can be organized on one piece of paper, begin at any stage and does not require the story to be developed in sequential order. One advantage to mapping vs. boarding is it is directed through emotional flow vs. flow of emotion. The mapping process can be described through the visual portrait of a story shown below in figure 2.
Figure 2 (Ohler, 2009)
Figure 3 (Ohler, 2009)
View Dr. Jason Ohler's entire slide presentation titled, New students, New media, New literacties: Transforming learning through digital creativity...
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