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Literate Futures: Reading the Future (Video)SceneorimageScene/image description in video Question/activity Literate Futures:ReadingPositioningdocumentLiterate Futures: WholeschoolLiteracy PlanningGuidelines (WSLP)3. Each day as readers we move in to and out of agreat number of environments and situations. Inthese situations we are called upon continually tomake sense of what we see and hear. We rely onour knowledge and experience to help makesense of the complex systems of signs, codes andconventions that make up what is said.How do you prepare students at school to dealwith the variety of environments and situationsthey will meet every day out of school?Re-read sectionon Technologicalchange pp. 4–5.For a discussionof signs, codesand conventionssee the section onSemiotic Systemsp. 20.Use Community Profiles toidentify theseenvironments.4. We need to make meaning of the world so that wecan interact within our community and the widerworld … access the information we need …understand more about our thoughts andemotions … communicate appropriately … makethings happen and get what we want.How do these scenes relate to activecitizenship? What does ‘active citizenship’mean to you?For anexplanation ofActive Citizenshipsee New Basics:CurriculumOrganiserspp. 11–14.Use Community Profileand Strategic CommunityPartnerships to identifywhat active citizenshipmeans and how it isenacted in your schoolcommunity.5. To function effectively in these manyenvironments we need to be literate.Does ‘functioning’ in a school environmentmake a student literate? Why or why not?(You may need to re-view Scene 5 in order toanswer this question.)Review PTp. 5.Use Community Profileand Strategic CommunityPartnerships to identifyliteracies needed tofunction in yourcommunity.© State of Queensland (Department of Education, Literate Futures Project) 2003. Page 4 of 18