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Emily Wampler

Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAU... - 0 views

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      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      And wonder where they get the idea that "funds are plentiful" in education?  Hmm...
  • The greatest challenge is moving beyond the glitz and pizzazz of the flashy technology to teach true literacy in this new milieu. Using the same skills used for centuries—analysis, synthesis, and evaluation—we must look at digital literacy as another realm within which to apply elements of critical thinking.
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      This is really true; just because students may be "digitally savvy" doesn't mean they are competent/scholarly users of these digital technologies.  
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  • Digital literacy represents a person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment, with “digital” meaning information represented in numeric form and primarily for use by a computer. Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media (text, sound, images), to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments. According to Gilster,5 the most critical of these is the ability to make educated judgments about what we find online.
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      It's interesting how they emphasize the higher orders of thinking here-analyze, judge, apply, evaluate, etc.  There's probably lots of room for creative thinking within digital literacy, too.  
  • Visual literacy, referred to at times as visual competencies, emerges from seeing and integrating sensory experiences. Focused on sorting and interpreting—sometimes simultaneously—visible actions and symbols, a visually literate person can communicate information in a variety of forms and appreciate the masterworks of visual communication.6 Visually literate individuals have a sense of design—the imaginative ability to create, amend, and reproduce images, digital or not, in a mutable way. Their imaginations seek to reshape the world in which we live, at times creating new realities. According to Bamford,7 “Manipulating images serve[s] to re-code culture.”
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      Ah ha!  There's the bit about creative thinking.  They just give it a different name: visual literacy.  
  • Competency begins with understanding
  • The idea that the world we shape in turn shapes us is a constant.
  • In the end, it seems far better to have the skills and competencies to comprehend and discriminate within a common language than to be left out, unable to understand
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      I think this definitely is true, and is a good reason why we need to incorporate digital literacy in the classroom. 
  • the concept of literacy has assumed new meanings.
  • Children learn these skills as part of their lives, like language, which they learn without realizing they are learning it.3
  • A common scenario today is a classroom filled with digitally literate students being led by linear-thinking, technologically stymied instructors.
  • Although funds may be plentiful
Shally Ackerman

Digital Literacy in the primary classroom | Steps in Teaching and Learning - 0 views

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  • 8 elements of Digital Literacy
  • Cultural [Cu] Cognitive [Cg] Constructive [Cn] Communication [Co] Confidence [Cf] Creative [Cr] Critical [Ct] Civic [Ci]
  • he following is my interpretation of how they might be used for teaching and learning in a primary classroom
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  • definition in its publication Digital Literacy
  • To be digitally literate is to have access to a broad range of practices and cultural resources that you are able to apply to digital tools. It is the ability to make and share meaning in different modes and formats; to create, collaborate and communicate effectively and to understand how and when digital technologies can best be used to support these processes.
  • The challenge is how we as teachers can foster digital literacy in all areas of the school curriculum
  • it is our responsibility to ensure children are not only confident users but can also make informed decisions about the use of such digital technologies to help them in their learning
  • How can we ensure that our learners are digitally literate?
  • We can help children understand their role in the wider community and how they will have an effect on it. What they say becomes incredibly important when you begin to use digital tools to publish their content online for the world to see
  • Don’t envisage this as how your learners will use digital tools but how they will use their own cognitive tools to do so
  • In today’s digital world children have a multitude of ways to communicate that are more or less digital variations of those tools 30 years previously.
  • developing links and strengthening those bonds by fostering projects and interaction is the next step
  • Go with what the learners suggest, follow up their questions even if it isn’t in your panning
  • Learners today need to know which tools are the best to communicate the message they want to say, they need to make deliberate and informed choices that recognise what these digital communication tools can do and how best to utilise them.
  • You want a class of learners that will know which tools will get the job done effectively and which tools will only hold them back
  • Never before has a learner been presented with so much choice to draw a picture – from pencil and paper to digital pens and paper on a tablet device
  • owever the creative potential is being held back by teachers who are either not prepared to use these tools in their class due to other ill conceived curriculum pressures or they just don’t know how.
  • How do we know it is written by the author claiming it to be so? We need to develop critical awareness and thinking
  • Children cannot go on accepting the first result they receive from a search
  • Digital Literacy must be developed across every part of the curriculum and not just ICT and our learners must be given the freedom to do so in schools today
  • Shally Ackerman on 01 Sep 12
     
    This article breaks down some of the concepts that go into digital literacy.
Megan Cleary

Digital Storytelling: Extending the Potential for Struggling Writers | Reading Topics A... - 0 views

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  • While some young writers may struggle with traditional literacy, tapping into new literacies like digital storytelling may boost motivation and scaffold understanding of traditional literacies
  • Creating digital stories invites students to employ old and new literacies, and through the process of creating a movie they erect, explore, and exhibit other literacies
  • Megan Cleary on 19 Sep 12
     
    Interesting take on digital storytelling as a helpful approach for students struggling with traditional literacy.
Stephanie McGuire

Digital Literacy Includes Learning to Unplug - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • The new digital divide isn’t between children who have access to computers and devices and those who do not. It’s between kids whose parents are saying “turn that thing off” and those whose parents don’t limit their access — because they don’t know how, or because they’re not available to do it.
  • Instead of closing the achievement gap,” said the author of the Kaiser study, “they’re widening the time-wasting gap.”
  • The F.C.C. is considering creating a “digital literacy corps” to teach productive uses of the computer and Internet to students, parents and job seekers
  • Stephanie McGuire on 05 Sep 12
     
    A problem lies also in the time wasted on technology. Education needs to include WHEN to use technology for learning purposes.
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  • Madeline Grygiel on 05 Sep 12
  • Madeline Grygiel on 05 Sep 12
     
    "A study published in 2010 by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that children and teenagers whose parents do not have a college degree spent 90 minutes more per day exposed to media than children from higher socioeconomic families"... why is this? Parents busy working? Lack of resources (e.g. books)? Home environment (e.g. no yard to play in outside)?
  • Stephanie McGuire on 06 Sep 12
     
    Thank you for sharing the original article, very interesting and well written! What a difference in time wasted per day. I would agree with your ideas of why that might be. So I certainly think a digital literacy core could be a helpful and useful investment! I also think education for parents is just as important as students to learn to use the Internet to learn new information and be creative.
Kristine Kellenberger

International Comparisons in Digital Literacy: What Can We Learn? | Edutopia - 0 views

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digital literacy

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  • While using a computer at home is related to digital reading performance in all participating countries and economies, computer use at school is not always. The report suggests this means that that "students are developing digital reading literacy mainly by using computers at home to pursue their interests."
Emily Wampler

Life on the Screen: Visual Literacy in Education | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/lucas-visual-literacy

visualliteracy

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  • Emily Wampler on 27 Oct 12
     
    An interview with George Lucas provides some compelling arguments for the importance of teaching digital and visual literacy to students, in order to equip them to succeed in the 21st century. 
Carly Guinn

Crossing the Digital Divide: Bridges and Barriers to Digital Inclusion | Edutopia - 0 views

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    • Denise Lenihan
      Denise Lenihan on 01 Sep 12
       
      Just what we were talking about in class about the "Paradox of Technology"
  • At the same time, many schools continue to demonize cell phone use during school, which may be an outdated policy. Not only are there an increasing number of educational applications for mobiles but, as Blake-Plock suggests, prohibiting phones now means "disconnecting the kid from what's actually happening in most of our lives."
    • Carly Guinn
      Carly Guinn on 04 Sep 12
       
      Related to "Bring Your Own Device" discussion -- what does increasing technology mean in the classroom?  Can teachers compete with phone apps?
  • Students who are excluded from the digital universe know exactly what they're missing
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  • "The digital divide, once seen as a factor of wealth, is now seen as a factor of education: Those who have the opportunity to learn technology skills are in a better position to obtain and make use of technology than those who do not."
    • Carly Guinn
      Carly Guinn on 04 Sep 12
       
      Something interesting to keep in mind as a teacher:  besides support from families, what digital/technological support do some students have access to and others don't?
  • This refers to literacy, not only with hardware and software but also with the vast global conversation that the Internet enables.
  • Only when there's equal opportunity for everyone to become literate in these technologies so that they're creating and not just consuming content can we begin to imagine closing the digital divide.
  • It's whether communities can leverage the capacity of networks to make learning more authentic and powerful for students.
Emily Wampler

Digital Literacy and Citizenship Classroom Curriculum | Common Sense Media - 1 views

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digitalliteracy citizenship

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  • Emily Wampler on 16 Sep 12
     
    Digital Literacy and Citizenship resources for teachers: includes lesson plans, curriculum by grade levels, and more.  Cool stuff!  I think you have to register to get access to all the materials, but some is available for free.  
Lisa Iverson

Find Educator Tools | digitalliteracy.gov - 0 views

www.digitalliteracy.gov/...educator

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  • Lisa Iverson on 29 Aug 12
     
    This looks like a great resource for teaching digital literacy 
Allie

internetsavvy - home - 0 views

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technology safety

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  • Allie on 03 Sep 12
     
    Wiki full of information about digital literacy and citizenship.
Emily Wampler

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/tech/tec15.pdf - 0 views

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tech

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  • Emily Wampler on 12 Sep 12
     
    Awesome site by the federal trade commission, with a comprehensive review of digital literacy and citizenship topics.  Great resource.  
Kimberly George

Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum for Grades K-5 | Common Sense Media - 1 views

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digitalcitizenship curriculum

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  • Kimberly George on 05 Sep 12
     
    Didn't look through all the lessons but this seems like a pretty good resource for lesson plans about teaching digital citizenship. 
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