The past two weeks talks about digital literacies has so far been the heaviest topics discussed or at least they have been for me. I’ve had to spend a little more time thing about what this all means, so I decided to try something new.…
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Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Mozilla Foundation asks “What are the skills, competencies and literacies necessary to read, write and participate in the Web – now and in the future?”
Thinking about this has made me reflect on areas of my life where I have tried to acquire new skills.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I can see now that my initial attempt at a definition of digital literacy was too narrow and that my academic librarian bias is all too evident in the narrow focus on “information”. To remind myself to look beyond just one aspect of digital literacy I created this peacock to try to pull together and visualize Doug Belshaw’s elements of digital literacies combined with some of the concepts discussed in Howard Rheingold’s webinar on Literacies of Attention.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...First of all, my apologies for the moving parts in this post. They are a hangover from the last session in #etmooc where I had a go at different digital media tools. If you want to know how they were made please read this post
So, this week it is all about digital literacies.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The borders between well-designed synchronous and asynchronous experiences are becoming increasingly indistinguishable. And that raises a fundamental question for all of us: in an onsite-online world where interactions travel rhizomatically, how do we as trainer-teacher-learners define, plan, and deliver a learning event or any other event grounded by a specific timeframe and centered around online meetings?…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Let’s begin exploring our quickly changing ideas about digital literacy by noting the various skills required to engage in a contemporary online learning experience: a live session (now available in an online archived version) on digital literacy/literacies led by Doug Belshaw for #etmooc, the Educational Technology and Media MOOC (Massive/Massively Open Online Course) organized by University of Regina professor of educational technology and media Alec Couros and others.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This presentation was about Digital Literacies and trying to define the term in a new way. I find that Doug’s definition, as noted below, is very similar to Digital Citizenship and shares many of the same characteristics of digital citizenship. However, his definition is much looser and more personal-action-based.…
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