David Warlick is an educator with more than 30 years of experience who has been a classroom teacher, district administrator, and staff consultant with the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction. For the past ten years, Mr. Warlick has operated The Landmark Project, a consulting and innovations firm located in Raleigh, North Carolina. His web site titled “Landmarks for Schools” serves more than a half-million visitors a day with some of the most popular teacher tools available on the Web. David Warlick has been an innovator and leader in the field of educational technology and a prolific programmer. His classroom blogging site titled “Class Blogmeister” serves more than 100,000 users, and his attribution tool called “Citation Machine” receives more than a half-million page views each day. These and all of his other web tools for teachers are free. David is also the author of three books on instructional technology and 21st century literacy, and he has spoken to audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South America.
| Luncheon Keynote: Literacy and Learning in the 21st Century
As little as we know about the future for which we are preparing our children, it is clear that it will be a place in which success will be determined largely by access to information. In addition to accessing that information, other skills such as processing, building with, and communicating that information will be major components of our daily occupational, professional, and personal lives. Being literate in this future will certainly involve the ability to read, write, and work with numbers. However, the concept of literacy — “the basics” — in an information-governed technology-rich world will be far richer and more comprehensive than the 3Rs that continue to define schooling for many people today.
This enlightening and thought-provoking address will describe how our notions of literacy must expand to harness a rapidly changing information landscape where content and knowledge are increasingly networked and digitized in ways that can sometimes seem overwhelming. Please join David Warlick, a 33-year educator, as he explores this new information landscape and prepare to be on the edges of your seats.
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