Literacy is the desire and ability to make and share meaning in order to gain access and make a contribution to valued resources of the culture. Literate individuals seek, understand, internalize, and apply new information for environmental, occupational, informational, and recreational purposes. Literacy adopts the belief that the reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing processes are intertwined.
This conference is focused on how teaching to the multiple literacies can be supported by the integration of technology into all curricular areas.
Our conference themes are:
Technological literacy, a broad understanding of the human-designed world and our place in it, is an essential quality for all people who live in the increasingly technology-driven 21st century. It is the ability to responsibly use appropriate technology to communicate, solve problems, and access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information to improve learning in all subject areas and to acquire lifelong knowledge and skills.
The competencies and skills students need to locate, retrieve, evaluate, analyze, and use information. These competencies are developed over time and are essential for lifelong learning.
Information literacy includes specific components:
Involves the construction and conveying of meaning through the deliberate activation of a variety of skills, strategies and schemata during transactions with text.
The ability to encode and decode thoughts and information to and from visual media. It involves the transforming of thinking and communication into graphical representations. Visual communication takes place when people are able to construct meaning from the visual media.
The ability to communicate and collaborate in a shared environment for the purpose of building knowledge.
