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Pre-Conference led by
Sara Kajder
University of Toronto, Mississauga Campus
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Keynote
Promise into Practice: Using New Tools to Engage All Learners.
The shifts in how we define literacy and the toolset we use in our work as readers and writers make this an incredibly exciting (and sometimes daunting) time to teach. What does it mean to teach and learn in a classroom that values new literacies? What can we do with technology to engage, empower and evoke our students’ thinking, insights and knowledge – and how does that differ from what we have done before? Are our students REALLY digital natives? As much as our talk will pose critical questions, the bigger goal is to explore practice. We’ll examine methods for co-constructing literacy practices alongside our students, and think deeply about what learning 2.0 entails. In doing so, students can read and write with multimodal tools for authentic audiences, engage in tasks and literacy practices that have relevance outside of the classroom and receive opportunities for their knowledge to do real work.
Read More About Sara:
http://www.bringingtheoutsidein.com
http://www.soe.vt.edu/englished/kajder.html
http://ohiorc.org/adlit/InPerspective/Issue/2008-04/Article/feature.aspx#ID0EAAAAHA
http://www.stenhouse.com/assets/pdfs/ccnov07shift.pdf
http://anne.teachesme.com/2008/02/07/sara-kajder/
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Pre-Conference Workshop
Bringing the Outside In: Reading and Writing with Emerging Technologies.
From wikis to digital storytelling, and from the Flip to the Kindle, this workshop will explore emerging tools and pedagogies that can help “move” the literacy skills of all students. We’ll begin with looking at our students and valuing the literacies they bring to our classrooms.
Our focus will be on critically examining “new” strategies and tools in terms of; their instructional value-add, their capacity for engaging readers and writers, and the ways they challenge us to reveal what counts as valued communication in and outside of our classrooms.
Further, as students are more multi-literate than what most assessments capture, we’ll spend time discussing how we know what our students know – and how that knowledge can have meaning within our schools.
This pre-conference day will provide engaging, practical and live examples of tools that support the 21st century classroom. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops for participation.
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About the presenter…
Sara Kajder, Ph.D.
Dr. Sara Kajder is an assistant professor of literacy education at Virginia Tech whose teaching has been anchored in drawing on her middle and high school students’ out-of-school literacies to promote academic literacy development.
Author of Bringing the Outside In (2006) and The Tech Savvy English Classroom (2004), her work has appeared in English Journal, Voices from the Middle, Educational Leadership and numerous research journals in instructional technology and teacher education.
Recipient of the National Technology Leadership Fellowship and a former fellow at the Center for Technology and Teacher Education at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, her research examines the expansive literacies exercised by adolescent readers and writers (both in and outside of school) as well as teacher practices in harnessing new literacies in order to invite students’ knowledge, creativity, and action.
A sought after speaker, collaborator, and consultant, Dr. Kajder has presented numerous keynote addresses for national and international organizations.
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