Digital Literacy and the special role of the Language Teacher

1. Digital literacy and
the special role of the
Language teacher
Jeroen Clemens
jeroenclemens.nl

3. A New LiteracyWorld

4. Literacy Now
Are Digital Natives
competent readers online ??

5. The skills and strategies required to comprehend printed text are intertwined with a set of new
and more complex skills and strategies to read successfully for understanding on the Internet
(Afflerbach & Cho, 2008)
[E]lectronic texts that incorporate hyperlinks and hypermedia . . . require skills and abilities
beyond those required for the comprehension of conventional, linear print
(The RAND Reading Study Group RRSG, 2002)
23% of students below Level 3

6. Literacy Now
• Multiliteracy is the ability to identify, interpret, create, and
communicate meaning across a variety of visual, oral,
corporal, musical and alphabetical forms of communication
• Online Literacy/ Online research and
comprehension: Reading & Writing to
1. identify important questions,
2. locate information,
3. evaluate information critically,
4. synthesize information, and
5. communicate information (Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, &
Cammack, 2004).

7. offline
Multi document literacy: analysis
& synthesis
Literacy online:
Locate, Evaluate,
Synthesize &
Communicate
New Definition of Literacy
Cho & Afflerbach, 2010
Traditional
print literacy
New Definition of Language
Teaching

8. Why is
Online
Literacy
needed?
Many research assignments, resources online
without help
Information online: ever changing ocean, no
editors, everybody is a writer, unclear authors,
Online Reading: a web-based inquiry process
Online texts: non-lineair, hypertexts, multimodal,
changing (non-static), interactive,
Additional skills/ strategies: locate, evaluate,
synthesize, communicate

9. • DL: a special task for
language teachers in the
curriculum?
• Why?
• How?
Literacy and Digital Literacy
Role of the LanguageTeacher
DL across the curriculum?
Why?
How?

10. The Dutch case
Digital Literacy
Implementing in the curriculum
Nation wide

11. Curriculum Reform Netherlands
2015 Top down
Advisory commission recommendations for reform.
• Writes report
• Not accepted by the field (teachers)
2018 Bottum Up
Involve Teachers and Schools. More practical proposals
CurriculumNu!
• 2019 Proposals/ Ideas from CurriculumNu!
• Now in parliament
2020 Change Attainment goals?
• Change curriculum? How?

12. • more attention functional language skills
• ability to find one’s way around information
• digital sources supplanting traditional printed material
• we do not read online material in the same way (…)
• derive information from visual sources
Digital Literacy
in Curriculum

13. Start now!
Don’t wait for
National
Programmes
Publishers
Experts
Commercial
Educational
Institutes

14. DL in the LanguageCurriculum
• Integrate
• Evaluate = critical reading print texts and online
texts
• Reading strategies: print texts and online texts
• Writing: old & new texts (weblog, website)
• Add
• Search engines
• Skills to evaluate online texts, to read hypertexts,
to self steering,
• Reading as building a new text during reading
• Meaningful, Motivate &Transfer
• Use learning tasks across the curriculum
• Interesting topics, like ancestors
• Make research fun, but scaffold

15. Teacher Development Teams
• Start with a vision
• Team: LanguageTeachers
or Mix
• Reuse and Remix: Use
examples/ Ideas
• Design, try-out, evaluate,
redesign
• Collaborate with other
teachers, schools,
networks
• Experts can help, but on
your own terms

17. • https://jeroenclemens.nl
• contact@jeroenclemens.nl
• Twitter: @jeroencl
• https://www.slideshare.net/jeroencl