If we want to learn at a deeply significant and long-lasting level, we clearly need to keep re-walking familiar paths while remembering, each time we recreate those journeys, to look at them as if we’ve never seen them before this moment.…
The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies
- Digital literacies are developed progressively rather than sequentially.
- Digital literacies are developed by tapping into your own interests.
- Internal motivation is the key to getting people to want to try to develop digital skills for themselves.
- We live in a world where ideas spread very quickly and can be remixed.
Modern Learning,Today’s Students
Modern Education is at the forefront of a lot of discussion’s as backed up by Will Richardson’s webcast for #etmooc.
He posted a board for collaboration where participants shared ideas on traditional versus modern education. Today we are a tech driven society.…
You Never Know Where You Will Be Inspired …
I have been grappling with keeping up with my blog. Today was the day I was to blog. I set this as a goal. Put it on the to-do list. So I went on my way, thinking I would multi-task and post to my blog while getting a mani/pedi.…
The Boil, Lansing
Lansing is the capital of the state of Michigan, it is a pun ok?
http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/ten-years-later-why-open-educational-resources-have-not-noticeably-affected-higher-education-and-why-we-should-ca
So lets play a game
Open educational resources made a dramatic appearance with the 2002 debut of MIT’s Open Courseware initiative.
A dramatic appearance, what like a cape twirl?…
Reflections on “MOOCs and online learning: An interview with Jack Welch” [Glader]
MOOCs and online learning: An interview with Jack Welch – from edudemic.com by Paul Glader
Excerpt:
WA – What do you think of this trend in Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs? Where is it going?
JW – Tom Friedman talked about it a few weeks ago (in the New York Times).
ETMOOC Lip Dub
Old School to Bold School
I couldn’t agree more with Peggy George’s comment shared during Will Richardson’s #etmooc session The Challenges and Opportunities of Modern Learning, which was presented as part of Topic 3: Digital Litearcy (Information, Memes & Attention).…
The Infographic Resume
So today I was reading the #ETMOOC Assignment 3, defining digital literacy, and stumbled upon Visualize.me. Thank you Doug Belhsaw, for providing a link on your site. Visualize.me creates an Infographic resume based upon your Linked.in profile. Now i think this may be the coolest thing I have seen all week, it would have been all … Continue reading …
digital literacy – jump in! I had an epiphany this week about…
digital literacy – jump in!
I had an epiphany this week about how we often deal with digital literacy/fluency in education. Too often as educators, we approach teaching related to technology and computers similar to how I see foreign language being taught to my son.…