Ready for the premier literacy event in Africa? The dates are not confirmed, but we are planning for the August 15 to 17 in Cairo, Egypt! Stay tuned for more updates.

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Ready for the premier literacy event in Africa? The dates are not confirmed, but we are planning for the August 15 to 17 in Cairo, Egypt! Stay tuned for more updates.
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This week, I am a featured guest on the Global Ed Leadership, Activating school leadership to help eradicate poverty blog hosted by Paula Cordeiro.
by Thomas DeVere Wolsey
My work examines the potential interactions and opportunities to bring together traditional and digital literacies. Digital literacies are the skills needed to navigate digital tools (computer, smartphone, Kindle etc.) to evaluate, interact with, and create content. The way we engage with information from traditional literacies, such as books, is different from how we consume and create information found online. My work looks primarily at how we can help students to understand the information they are obtaining in digital spaces, analyze it critically, consider what is credible or not credible, and synthesize everything. Read the rest of the post here.
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By Thomas DeVere Wolsey
It’s here: Beyond the App launches today for middle-grade educators. You can still join us and stretch your teaching muscles this weekend. We begin at noon Eastern Standard Time / 7 PM Cairo Time. Register here https://lnkd.in/gQjiYVP
and for Egypt here: https://lnkd.in/dBa6ZF4
#BeyondTheApp #literacyforall #auc_gse
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by Thomas DeVere Wolsey
There is just one week left before we engage teachers and teacher educators from Egypt to New York and Mauritius to San Diego. Are you with us?
Meet the President of AUC, President of SUNY Cortland, and the Minister of Education in Egypt.
You will have a chance to interact and ask questions.
Egyptian & Africa teachers, click bit.ly/BeyondTheAppEgypt
US and Canada, register here bit.ly/beyondtheapp
#BeyondTheApp @TDWolsey Graphic design by Abd-Elrhman Elsadany
I’m Going Beyond the App in my virtual classroom. Find out how.
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by Thomas DeVere Wolsey & Nance Wilson
Registration for Beyond the App is open now!
Beyond the App is an interactive online conference for middle grades teachers, teacher educators, parents, and educational leaders. For just $10 you get to work with experts in the field to improve your online teaching of literacy.
You can read more about it in this press release: http://www2.cortland.edu/news/detail.dot?id=a01e318d-2666-4ecd-818c-3f7a144744dc
Visit our website and register (Your registration helps us fund the conference in the future): https://bit.ly/beyondtheapp
If you are registering from Africa, please send a note for special instructions to BeyondTheApp@Cortland.edu
In addition, participants can choose to donate to our EgyptReads! Initiative to put books in school libraries.
Some of our speakers:
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
Maha Bali
Vicky Mac Arthur Cardullo
Zoi Philippakos
Troy Hicks
Emily Smothers Howell
Ian O’Byrne
Danny Brassell
Keisha Rembert
Jill Castek
Timothy Rasinski
Julie Coiro
Richard Beach
AND MORE!
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By Thomas DeVere Wolsey
Beyond the App invites teachers to interact with experts in online and traditional literacies. In contrast to many professional development activities, Beyond the App participants will co-construct approaches to teaching upper elementary and middle school students with colleagues around the globe. The event is a joint project with the Literacy Department at the State University of New York at Cortland and Graduate School of Education at The American University in Cairo.
Participants will have the opportunity to choose strands or themes such as building fluency, motivation for learning online, assessment practices, and more. You are likely familiar with the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model represented by the phrases, “I [the teacher] do, We do, and You do.” Our focus is on the difficult challenge of providing appropriate literacy practices within the we do [it together] phase when teachers are working online, and students are learning. But, how do you do that when you are teaching online?
Join us to go Beyond the App.
Sign up for details via email on our LeadPages site.
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Recursos de la conferencia
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If you are planning to attend the International Literacy Association July 18 to 20 (with Institute sessions on July 17), we would love to meet the friends of Literacy Beat in St. Louis. Please stop by one of our sessions and say hello!
Here is where you can find us:
Presenters: Bernadette Dwyer, Jill Castek, Colin Harrison
Time: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM (session 1:15 – 2:00pm)
Location: America’s Center St. Louis-230
Title: Using Technology to Improve Reading and Learning in Transforming Adolescents’ Lives through Literacy. (Institute session #0865)
Presenters: Bridget Dalton
Time: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Location: America’s Center St. Louis-263-264
Title: Transforming Literacy Instruction through Online Inquiry (Institute 01 Session # 0997)
Presenters: Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Dana L. Grisham, Linda Smetana
Time: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Location: America’s Center St. Louis-100-102
Title: Academic Wordplay: Digital Strategies for Active Vocabulary Instruction In Vocabulary Collaborations: Pathways to Vocabulary Learning for All students, Grades 2-12 (Institute session #0986)
Presenters: Dana L. Grisham, Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Linda Smetana
Time: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Location: America’s Center St. Louis-230
Title: Vocabulary Self-Selection Strategy Plus (VSS+):Post-Reading Concept Development Using Digital Tools in Transforming Adolescents’ Lives through Literacy. (Institute session #0865)
Author Signing: Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Diane Lapp, Maria Grant.
Time: 12:15–1:15
Location: Corwin Booth (#1138) in the Exhibit Hall
Author Signing and Presentation: Bernadette Dwyer, Jill Castek, and Colin Harrison
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Shell Education and Teacher Created Materials in the Exhibit Hall
Text: Using Technology to Improve Reading and Learning
Presenters: Bridget Dalton
Time: 9:00 AM–10:00 PM
Location: America’s Center St. Louis-123
Title: Guiding technology integration policy: How do we do that and why does it matter for schools and communities # FR02 Featured research session chaired by Annemarie Palincsar
Presenters: Blaine E. Smith
Time: 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Location: America’s Center St. Louis-Second Floor Atrium
Title: Composing Across Modes: Urban Adolescents’ Processes Responding to and Analyzing Literature # DP01 ILA Outstanding Dissertation Research Poster Session
Presenters: Bernadette Dwyer
Time: 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Location: America’s Center St. Louis-265
Title: Supporting Literacy and Learning With the internet: Nurturing Collaborative Classroom Communities (ILA Board Session # 01342)
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At a roundtable in the Research Into Practice Series on Monday, Karen Wood, Diane Lapp, and DeVere presented some ideas about conversation, collaboration, and the Common Core State Standards. Find out more about the IRA e-ssentials series by pointing your browser here: http://www.reading.org/general/Publications/e-ssentials.aspx
If you would like a copy of our handout, please point your browser to https://app.box.com/CCCCSS
Watch and listen as teacher Jolene Graham discusses how she uses the exchange compare write strategy using TitanPad and other digital resources.
The Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
Emily Skinner and Margaret Hagood, JAAL Editors, featured three pieces from the Digital Literacies Virtual Issue at the IRA conference. Melanine Hundley & Teri Holbrook presented Set in Stone or Set in Motion?: Multimodal and Digital Writing With Preservice English Teachers, Jill Castek & Rick Beach presented Using Apps to Support Disciplinary Literacy and Science Learning and Jessica K. Parker presented Critical Literacy and the Ethical Responsibilities of Student Media Production.
International LITERACY Association 2015
We hope you will join us at IRA, soon to be ILA, next year in St. Louis, July 17 to 20, 2015.
#IRA2014
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