We may be identifying yet another digital literacy skill: an ability to function simultaneously within a variety of timeframes we don’t normally consider while we’re learning.
Before we take the leap into a bit of virtual time travel to pursue this idea, let’s ground ourselves within a familiar idea: much of the formal learning with which we’re familiar takes place within clearly-defined segments of time, e.g.,…
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Loading...When a friend and I first read about Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel releasing a stream of expletives and walking off of Sean Hannity’s Fox News program in November 2012, we immediately began an online search to locate a video of that explosive moment.…
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By Giulia Forsythe
I watched the last ETMOOC Topic 3 Digital Literacy – Information, Memes & Attention webinar “Who Owns Your Education Data? (and Why does it matter?) by Audrey Watters last night. Audrey opened the session by saying that she hoped to drop a few ‘THOUGHT BOMBS‘ in our heads about who owns our data.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...There seems to be a disconnect between learning and literacy including digital literacy thanks to a perpetuating belief that confuses learning with literacy creating a bipolar world of learners and non-learners, literate and illiterate. The formalization of the educational system has deepened the divide between these contrasting categories by ignoring those who are informal literate and informal illiterate learners.…
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Who owns our data?
Our School
Our school encourages in our daily work and curricula a continuous emphasis on digital citizenship and digital safety; we practice citizenship in our classrooms, virtual and in reality. This discussion and practice we hope will carry over into our students’ personal choices, online and and off.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve been excited to share my thoughts on digital literacies for #ETMOOC, but I’ve had trouble thinking through the questions and framing them in my own experiences. It’s one thing — and a relatively easy one, at that — to restate the communis opinio on “digital literacy”, but it’s been quite another thing to write down my own take on what the term means to me.…
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Digital Literacies Peacock (Photo credit: *s@lly*)
What does it mean to be digitally literate? And who can actually answer that question today – teachers, administrators, researchers, students? I’m not sure I can do it justice. I think that’s one of my big takeaways from participating in the #etmooc Digital Literacy topic.…
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Last week as I listened to Harold Rheingold‘s #etmooc session: Literacies of Attention, Crap Detection, Participation, Collaboration and Network Know-How, I began to think about how frequently in education we devote 90% of our energies to 10% of an issue.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Like many of my #etmooc colleagues I am suffering from an excess of information. I have been gorging myself on blogs, and twitter feeds; following interesting links, watching YouTube videos, seeing and hearing stories about what it means to be literate in a digital world.…
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