Literacy Seminars
Saturday
Alan Gibbons & Stephen Heppell
Two major speakers - One from the world of Literacy and the other from the world of IT, joining together to highlight how the traditional teaching can benefit from using ICT.
The Literacy Classroom
Alan Gibbon will examine the kind of educational environment that can encourage pupils to engage with all aspects of literacy. He will offer practical strategies to get pupils of all abilities to read for pleasure and to achieve self-expression through writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
Alan Gibbon will examine the kind of educational environment that can encourage pupils to engage with all aspects of literacy. He will offer practical strategies to get pupils of all abilities to read for pleasure and to achieve self-expression through writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
A New Literacy 
Stephen Heppell will highlight how ICT is offering new opportunities that broaden our definition of literacy. Authoring podcasts together, parking their video on YouTube, TXTing and blogging, from computers and from phones, from complex threads on MSN to Story Clusters on FlickR, and right across the world our children are rushing back to narrative with a sophisticated ability to tailor their communication to media available. This session explores some the evolution of this new literacy and through viewing their work examines where children are now, and are going, with narrative inside the classroom and beyond.
Stephen Heppell will highlight how ICT is offering new opportunities that broaden our definition of literacy. Authoring podcasts together, parking their video on YouTube, TXTing and blogging, from computers and from phones, from complex threads on MSN to Story Clusters on FlickR, and right across the world our children are rushing back to narrative with a sophisticated ability to tailor their communication to media available. This session explores some the evolution of this new literacy and through viewing their work examines where children are now, and are going, with narrative inside the classroom and beyond.
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