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Original Technorati articles tagged “digital literacy”

• in Technology
  Computing in UK Schools is Failing Students
  Royal Society wants to drop ICT (information and Communications Technologies) from UK schools curriculum.
  by tonygallacher / on Mar 8, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  Study: Women's Literacy in India Falling Further Behind
  Struggling against the educational divide in one of the world's largest high-growth economies: India.
  by marileis / on Nov 15, 2011
• in Technology
  Sharing Digital Content in the Arab World
  Creative Commons Sees Arab Youth as Having Amazing Potential to Create and Innovate
  by ictqatar / on Sep 20, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “digital literacy”

 

• What Do You Mean By Literacy?

  
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  Readers of the blog will know that one of my regular mantras is, ‘Learning IS Narrative’. ie not only is narrative  - or storytelling – an important element of learning, but that all learning consists of the creation, analysis and sharing of stories. This is HOW we learn, and has been so since there was life on ...
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• Commodification

  
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  As a sort of postscript to yesterdays piece on the commodification of early learning and literacy, I wanted to underline that this isnt a new phenomenon at all. From Dinky toys and Meccano to Helix geometry sets, Chambers pencils and Beacon Readers, my own childhood learning was strongly patterned by ...
  1 week ago

• The Jarring Collision Between Digital Screens And Close Reading

  
  TeachThought — Authority: 564
  The Jarring Collision Between Digital Screens And Close Reading by Paul Barnwell, Teacher of English and Digital Media and blogger at mindfulstew Paul is a thoughtful and progressive educator who runs an equally thoughtful blog appropriately called mindfulstew.... The post The Jarring Collision Between Digital ...
  1 week ago

• AFRICA: Digital & literacy comes together for women and girls Senegal

  
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  WNN Learning! (WNN/UNESCO) Dakar, SENEGAL, WESTERN AFRICA: All classrooms of the Literacy Project for Girls and Women in Senegal (PAJEF) will soon be equipped with a digital kit consisting of a laptop, an interactive beamer (pointer), an infrared stylus touch pen to write directly on the digital board, as well as ...
  1 week ago

• Multiple things

  
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  Research Story from Chris Thomson on Vimeo.We all  have to juggle with competing demands and priorities, and it seems to get even worse when we start to research things! I was moved by this digital story produced by one of my Masters students - it illustrates the cost, the struggle and the emotional underlife in an ...
  1 week ago

• Creative Computing for teachers?

  
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  CREATIVE COMPUTING? The purpose… I am doing the Creative Computing course using Scratch over at MIT. The Creative Computing Online Workshop is a six-week online workshop for educators who want to learn more about using Scratch and supporting computational thinking in the classroom and other ...
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• Visitors and Residents mapping process: the video

  
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  This is a video of the mapping process which we first piloted at Educause last year. It’s designed to help you explore and reflect upon how you engage with the digital environment and then investigate how your students/users/staff engage with what you provide. Feel free to use the video to help plan your own ...
  2 weeks ago

• School of Data last month: Prague, Barcelona and Accra

  
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  Contribution: Michael BauerName: Michael BauerURL: link to the original postEntry: http://schoolofdata.org/2013/06/04/school-of-data-last-month-prague-barcelona-and-accra/Language: EnglishFormat: text/html This week Michael Bauer has been... This is a content summary only. Visit ArchaeoinAction for full links, other ...
  2 weeks ago

• You’re The Reason Building Your Business Is So Hard

  
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  Recently I was asked by a student to take some time and talk with her about her career options. She was trying to plan for her career post-graduate school, and struggling some with the vicissitudes of a graduate program in mental health. Such vicissitudes, once you commit to studying in the field of your choice, [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Digital Literacy Workshop Afterthoughts

  
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  Good evening all. It has been a couple of hours since my workshop ended. For those who have been following this blog, I have been advertising my workshop on Digital Literacy. Tonight was the night, and things went well. Outside of having difficulty with the projector at first, the workshop proceeded well. During the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Moving from ‘e’ to ‘d’ – what does a Digital University really look like?

  
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  This is a presentation being made tomorrow by Bill Johnston at Dundee University, looking at the place of information literacy within the "digital" university. It continues on from the framework proposed by him and Sheila MacNeill initially at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Did you miss Get the Digital Edge day in March?

  
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  You can now watch videos from the sessions here: westminster.ac.uk/digital-edge .   Videos include: Aimee Bateman talking about social media and job hunting  Frances Gow on how to manage your online reputation Jim McClellan shares his views on digital literacy  Andrew Rigby of the Group ...
  2 weeks ago

• Perspective

  
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  In our paper, Points of View, Cathy and I use some virtual worlds data to problematise a whole range of issues in literacy studies. Starting from the use of virtual worlds in classrooms a number of common assumptions about the material and the virtual; space and place; and even temporality are called into question. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Discourse

  
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  Im really enjoying the Fifth International Roundtable on Discourse Analysis with its focus on Digital Practices. Presenters have brought a wide variety of perspectives to a wide range of topics. There have been different takes on discourse itself and work thats focused on mobile technologies, machinima, MOOCs, Flickr, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Password Protection or why it can pay to be paranoid!

  
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  This is the first (of many hopefully!) blog contributions from our Library and Learning Technology Service extended family tree in Grwp Llandrillo Menai. This week Dan, based at Rhos site, wants to tell you a story ….are you sitting comfortably? Now let’s begin….. ________________ Password security is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Want To Help Stop Youth Cyberbullying? Let Your Kids Raid More.

  
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  The above title is misleading.  In fact it is as misleading as the term cyberbullying, which is an umbrella term used from experiences which range drastically.  ”Cyberbullying” has been used to describe the humiliation of LGBT youth via video; the racial hatred of Sikhs on Reddit, the systematic harassment and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Our Lack of Social Media Adoption is Cause for Concern

  
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  On April 12, 2013, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) released results of their latest survey detailing social media use by colleges and universities. More than 1,000 institutions participated in the survey that solicited responses on several topics including, how professionals incorporate ...
  4 weeks ago

• Get Creative Commons Savvy With These Activities

  
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  Yesterday, I shared the EFFs lesson plans for teaching copyright. After using those plans you may want to move your students on to understanding Creative Commons. Peer 2 Peer University hosts a four module unit called Get CC Savvy . Each module contains a short video about the topic followed by a suggested activity ...
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• Useful links

  
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    by    vdowney   URL Droplet  This tool allows you to upload links straight to your Dropbox folders. All you need to do is take a link (this especially works well if the link leads to a PDF or similar document) and paste it into the URL Droplet form. Teacher’s Guide to Adding Images in Google Forms ...
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• Infographic: Teens, Social Media, and Privacy

  
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