After reviewing the Metaliteracy Learning Objectives, please feel free to share activities or assignments you have created with the objectives in mind.
Ideas from the session at the 3Ts conference are welcome!
Metaliteracy in Practice
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Join Us for the 3Ts conference at SUNY Empire State!
Registration for this year’s Transliteracy, Teaching and Technology Conference is still open! The event will be hosted by the SUNY Empire State College’s Center for Distance Learning on March 15.
Sponsored by the college, the SUNY Librarians Association , and the SUNYLA Working Group on Information Literacy (WGIL) the goals of the 3Ts conferences are to prepare participants with new ways to engage their students, enrich their classes and broaden their perspective about 21st century teaching and learning. This is an interactive conference that examines emerging literacy frameworks to address today’s Web 2.0 and social media environments.
This year’s conference will continue to explore the intersection of technology and transliteracy, but the scope of this year’s event is expanded to include K-12 educators to create a dialogue with faculty, librarians and instructional designers about 21st-century literacies.
Sue Thomas, an international scholar and author and research professor of New Media in the Institute of Creative Technologies, Faculty of Art, Design & Humanities at De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom, is this year’s keynote speaker.
Thomas will lead conversations about the theory and practice of emerging literacies, innovative technologies throughout a learner’s educational experience and the growing number of literacies all students need to succeed in today’s complex, information-rich academic and professional worlds.
To register and for more conference information visit http://threetees.weebly.com
Presentations will be led by scholars and practitioners from Auburn University, SUNY Geneseo, the University of Manitoba, Buffalo State College, The University at Albany, California State University, St. Jerome’s University, and Empire State College.
Sessions will include:
§ creating virtual pathways for civic discussion
§ Using cloud conferencing to create opportunities for collaborative writing
§ discussing the SUNY Statewide Teacher and School Leader Education Network
§ understanding the role of transliteracy in the classroom.
Teaching digital fluency through immersive technologies
The Metaliteracy Collaborative
Learn about the SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant that began this collaborative, and meet the principle investigators!
Understanding metaliteracy
“Social media environments and online communities are innovative collaborative technologies that challenge traditional definitions of information literacy. Metaliteracy is an overarching and self-referential framework that integrates emerging technologies and unifies multiple literacy types. This redefinition of information literacy expands the scope of generally understood information competencies and places a particular emphasis on producing and sharing information in participatory digital environments.”
Mackey, Thomas P., and Trudi E. Jacobson. “Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy.” College & Research Libraries. 72.1 (2011): 62-78.
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