Digital Literacy
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When Red Robin Gourmet Burgers introduced its new Tavern Double burger line last month, the company had to get everything right. So it turned to social media.
Social media is reinventing how business is done
Howard Rheingold on how the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills
Howard Rheingold isn’t too concerned about whether Google is making us stupid or if Facebook is making us lonely .
The New Literacy: Scenes from the Digital Divide 2.0 | Edutopia
Just as one cyber gulf narrows, another has threatened to take its place. The generation that grows up on the sunny side of the new digital divide will inherit the ease and status that comes with being the literati in a world where literacy has become "digiteracy." The term "digital divide" was coined in the mid-90s to label a growing gap between those with access to computers and those without.
2.23.12 | It would seem unnecessary to drag the Girl Scouts into current political debates over social issues and cultural values, but the 100-year-old organization found itself in the news recently when an Indiana Republican state representative refused to sign a resolution honoring the organization’s anniversary. Rep. Bob Morris said he was disturbed by what he learned when he did a “small amount of web-based research” on the Girl Scouts. I’m not going to debate Morris’s conservative positions, but I am going to call into question his digital literacy skills.
The Truth About Girl Scouts and the Need for Digital Literacy | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning
Social Constructivism Meets Social Media | Mark Brumley
Direct instruction is still and amazingly popular method of teaching. This holds true even though the majority of the student population requires dynamic, modern teaching methods. A complete opposite to traditional pedagogy is social constructivism , which proposes that students learn best about a given topic when interacting with other learners.
Core Principles of MLE : National Association for Media Literacy Education
As the field of media literacy education has matured over the past 25 years, its focus has evolved from WHAT is taught to HOW we teach. The Core Principles of Media Literacy Education is a NAMLE project to expand the boundaries of the field and encompass the opportunities and possibilities of 21st century learning technologies to transform both learning and teaching – from kindergarten to college. The purpose of media literacy education is to help individuals of all ages develop the habits of inquiry and skills of expression that they need to be critical thinkers, effective communicators and active citizens in today’s world. Media Literacy Education builds and reinforces skills for learners of all ages. Like print literacy, those skills necessitate integrated, interactive, and repeated practice.
There has been a lot of talk over the past decade about the importance of Innovation as the speed of business increases, and the difficulty of creating an innovative organization. As a result of our research, we have found it helpful to consider innovation as a fluency which can be broken down into three major sets of skills: Interestingly, our research revealed that people with these abilities seem to be able to use digital media like Twitter, internal collaboration tools, etc. more easily than people who did not. Why? Because information sharing and meaning making on most of these digital platforms is far more complex, where people can take ideas out of context, forward them to friends, mash them up with other things, all at a speed (information can travel across the globe instantly) and scale (a single message can easily reach thousands of people at once) that is very different from previous technologies like email, telephone and memos.
Perfectionism and Innovation Fluency | SociaLens Blog
Howard Rheingold’s World of Infotention | Powerful Learning Practice
Have you ever sat down in front of your computer, expecting a lot of work to be done in a certain amount of time, only to find that you have done nothing work-related at all? Or that you’ve done a lot — just not what you planned to do? Many people are thinking about the way we spend our time and what gets our attention in this digital age. Howard Rheingold calls it infotention and I’ve been learning a lot about it recently thanks to his challenging but rewarding online course, “Introduction to Mind Amplifiers.”
Future Work Skills 2020 | Institute For The Future
Global connectivity, smart machines, and new media are just some of the drivers reshaping how we think about work, what constitutes work, and the skills we will need to be productive contributors in the future. This report analyzes key drivers that will reshape the landscape of work and identifies key work skills needed in the next 10 years. It does not consider what will be the jobs of the future. Many studies have tried to predict specific job categories and labor requirements. Consistently over the years, however, it has been shown that such predictions are difficult and many of the past predictions have been proven wrong.
The 10 key skills for the future of work — Online Collaboration
What are the jobs of the future? The demographics of an aging population suggests health care will be big, say some. Data science is scheduled to explode, suggest others, or maybe anything computer-related is a solid bet. But let’s be honest, predicting exact job titles set to soar or the fates of specific sectors is nearly impossible. With technology and economic developments moving so quickly, it’s hard to keep up with what’s going on today, more or less foresee what career paths will make you a winner in a decade or two.Below is a list of digital/paperback books and digital bibliographies from Digital Scholarship that cover open access topics. They are all under a Creative Commons license (typically the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License ). The digital versions are open access. Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 (July 2011): This selective bibliography presents over 600 English-language articles, books, technical reports, and other works that are useful in understanding institutional repositories and ETDs. This selective bibliography covers IR country and regional surveys, multiple-institution repositories, specific IRs, IR digital preservation issues, IR library issues, IR metadata strategies, institutional open access mandates and policies, IR R&D projects, IR research studies, IR open source software, and electronic theses and dissertations. Available as a paperback (96 pages, $9.95, ISBN-10: 146377429X) and an open access PDF file.
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Discover Yourself!
With the amount of information that is available on the internet, it's important for teachers to filter through websites to find relevant information in a timely manner. As a blogger, I believe we "curate" the web automatically to help keep things organized and to convey information in as detailed and easy a way as possible. Now, with the addition of dedicated websites, people can curate the web and save information on their own while sharing this vital information with others.October 27, 2011 by tomwhitby The genie is definitely out of the bottle when we look at Social Media. Of course there are many who fail to recognize this, and continue to believe that somehow, someone must approve the use of social Media in order for it to be acceptable in our education system.
Social Media, More or Less « My Island View
Submitted by: Jake Glasgow , Instructional Technology Specialist from Upstate NY There has been a lot of chatter lately about whether integrating technology into the classroom is having an impact on student learning. "Where is the data that justifies the millions of dollars spent on technology?" I urge you to read the September 3rd, 2011 NY Times article by Matt Richtel entitled; "In Classroom of Future, Stagnent Scores." A fantastic article which thoughtfully pokes at many of the uncertainties regarding technolgy that school districts face today. Many say that students can learn content without technology in the classroom, and I don't disagree.
Technology In Education - Why?
[This is a guest post by Roger Whitson, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) at Emory University . Roger blogs on his website , on Emory U’s Library blog , and on Teaching Romanticism - and can be contacted via email at rogerwhitson [at] gmail.com or via Twitter @rogerwhitson .–@jbj]
The Politics of Digital Pedagogy: a Report on THATCamp Pedagogy 2011 - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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