Julie Coiro
One of the highlights at this conference was getting to meet Julie Coiro. She is at the University of Connecticut and is part of the New Literacies Research Team. See the link here
This is an excerpt on this site about what they do:
We engage in systematic inquiry to define what students need to learn and how best to assess and teach these new skills. What also defines us is our extraordinary collaborative approach. We work as colleagues, recognizing the valuable insights that each person brings to the inquiry process. Professors, graduate researchers, teachers, school leaders, and others work shoulder to shoulder, equally contributing to the inquiry process and respecting one another as colleagues.
Her handout link from the session is here. Julie talked for a bit, then we participated in an activity. She talked about some things related to evaluatiing on the internet and we took a look at some scary things about kids on the internet in terms of what they don’t know. Most of her work has been with 5th to 7th graders.
She began her session with three stories that will really get your thinking. Take a listen to NewLiteraciesPerspective.mp3 .
Julie’s site has some dynamite activities with lessons to help our students evaluate relevancy, accuracy, reliability and point of view. She has tables showing student responses to some good questions. Ask your students some of the questions. You may be surprised at their answers. Students know you can’t believe everything on the Internet… but they do! She talks about how the authors shape the information and then hones in on the conversations we need to have with our students and questions we should be asking.
There is so much to share from her session and I am just beginning but another session calls for now.
I have so much to blog about from this wonderful conference. It’s going to take me a bit. Plus it is so encouraging to talk to the participants who are out there working for many of the same goals we’ve been talking about the past few years. You should consider attending this conference next year. It will be in January back in San Francisco!
And I had a fabulous night last night connecting with Chris and John McIntosh. It was such a special evening and I’ll be blogging about that.
I’m soaring!
February 4th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Talk about connections…I am teaching a class for my district’s teachers and have been fascinated by the new definitions of literacy or Global Literacy. I followed the hyperlinks back to Julie’s school which is the University of Connecticut. I spent the next two hours reading through and listening to their site.I found some info that I really want to share with my teachers. I pretty well agreed with what they have written but I felt like they missed the collaberation part that our students need to learn. Did you feel like they have made that connection yet?
By the wayI got my Master’s degree from the University of Connecticut in reading,so it felt like I was circling back to some of my roots.
February 27th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
[…] is also a member of this extraordinary team. Last year I had blogged about Julie’s sessions here, here, here, and here. You can see I had much to share. The same is true from this year’s […]