Digital Literacy 2.0
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The Federal Communications Commission, the newly formed LEAD Commission , and the U.S. Department of Education met today with textbook publishers and technology providers in Washington to discuss the future of digital textbooks in K-12 classrooms. U.S.
Digital Education - Education Week
The Fourth of July is a time for parades, parties, BBQs, fireworks---we certainly have much to be thankful for here in America, the most innovative country on earth.
Esther Wojcicki: Revolution Needed for Teaching Literacy in a Digital Age
Posted under Uncategorized by David Domke In 2011 we will launch the Seattle Digital Literacy Initiative. We will partner with Seattle high schools, junior high schools, and elementary schools and several local news and media organizations to help students learn about the new digital universe.
Digital Literacy Initiative | Department of Communication, Unive
“By telling thoughtful stories, we clarify our own thinking about what we have learned to share with others in a profound way that sticks with us over time.” In an age of mathematical, logical, and scientific thinking, storytelling is often considered appropriate only for language arts projects for young learners. However, in today’s information-loaded world, storytelling is being rediscovered as an effective tool for helping us make sense of this data barrage. According to the brain research explored by Roger Shanks, storytelling provides a memory structure and depth of context that engages learners in a sense-making of facts.
Creative Educator - Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
Education Week's Digital Directions: Digital Tools Expand Option
Digital tools for defining and targeting students' strengths and weaknesses could help build a kind of individualized education plan for every student. Teachers have always known that a typical class of two dozen or more students can include vastly different skill levels and learning styles. But meeting those varied academic needs with a defined curriculum, time limitations, and traditional instructional tools can be daunting for even the most skilled instructor.
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Quest to Learn is a school for digital kids. It is a community where students learn to see the world as composed of many different kinds of systems. It is a place to play, invent, grow, and explore.
Online Learning Communities and Collaborative Learning
Online Learning Communities and Collaborative Learning Marina Moisseeva, Distance Learning Laboratory, Russian Academy of Education, Russia Reinhold Steinbeck, Stanford Learning Lab, Stanford University, USA Sabine Seufert, Institute for Media and Communication Management, University of St.
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Become a 21st century educator with Glogster EDU Premium!It is well known how important digital literacy and digital competence are in knowledge society. The presence or not of digital knowledge and skills in human beings determine new forms of digital divide and social exclusion; it is then more and more important to analyze suitable ways for the introduction of digital literacy very early in the school and to adopt suitable pedagogical paradigms (new ones if needed), to reach the goal of letting students develop good competences for lifelong learning in this field, not only for their career and profession but for a good citizenship in the knowledge society.
Digital Competence - Journal
After looking over several models and definitions of digital / media literacy, including the overly complicated graphic above, it seems clear that the phrases "digital literacy" and "media literacy" have become nearly synonymous. I tend to think of digital literacy as more device oriented, like being able to operate a smart phone, and media literacy as being able to decipher the messages -- textual, audio, video, etc. -- delivered through such devices. But the literature I read recently about the concepts doesn't seem to back such simple delineation (maybe I should make my argument in this matter).
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It would be great but perhaps unrealistic to expect that any of those with responsibility in the Canadian Digital Economy policy consultation reading my earlier blogpost on that subject. But perhaps one could hope that the folks on Parliament Hill might take a look at a report by the very highly regard publication and research group, The Economist Intelligence Unit’s: “Digital economy rankings 2010: Beyond e-readiness” . This very valuable document provides its understandings and presumptions concerning the necessary building blocks for a “Digital Economy” and quite interestingly, those building blocks almost completely parallel the suggestions made in my earlier blogpost.
Community Informatics and the Economist Intelligence Unit: From
I recently participated and contributed my thoughts for a documentary being created for teachers in regards to digital literacy and the future. Most of the respondents were Gen-Y social media addicts answering a few questions about their social media habits, what the phrase ‘digital literacy’ means to them, and how they expect it to change in the future.
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Are we teaching Networked Literacy | The Thinking Stick
The pyramid represents the amount of time we spend teaching different types of literacy. Print Literacy is still the bases of our teaching in schools. Some of us and some schools are starting to bring digital literacy into the equation, but few of us are touching on or teaching Networked Literacy. In August as I started to think about this idea of Networked Literacy I came up with this working definition: Networked literacy is what the web is about.ISTE