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Michael Walker

Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education | Mihai... - 0 views

  • Critical media literacy, in this context is utilized to combat the hegemonic power structures in society by training students to become critical thinkers, thereby transferring power from the hands of the distributers to the hands of the receivers.
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      Might be the most importatn point in the entire paper
  • shifting the educational framework from read, write and react, to create, curate, and contemplate.
  • defining sources and credibility becomes an ongoing and nuanced conversation.
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  • Curating content shifts the learning from passive to active
  • participatory spaces enable-archive, annotate, appropriate and recirculate
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  • core set of key skills
  • While traditional techniques remain relevant for students today, there is a need to explore pedagogical models that aim to empower critical thinking within the context of digital realities for youth today.
  • play, performance, simulation, appropriation, multitasking, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, judgment, transmedia navigation, networking, and negotiation
  • Organization is no longer simply for daily routines, pastimes or hobbies, but also for news and current affairs.
  • curation as value-added.
  • When the lists are public, the user becomes a de facto expert in showing the value placed on certain sources, organizations, and individuals over others. This type of curation "allows the people formerly known as the audience to create value for one another every day" (Shirky 2010, 17).
  • Curation is an act of problem solving.
  • task of the curator is to organize the information into a story
Brendan Murphy

The challenges to connectivist learning on open online networks: Learning experiences d... - 0 views

  • aggregation
  • relation
  • creation
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  • sharing
  • People learning on an informal network will choose the subject they want to learn about or the activity they want to engage in, but in a connectivist environment they have to make other choices as well.
  • For instance, they have to manage time, set their own learning goals, find resources, and try out new tools and make them work.
  • Research shows that the Internet and the Web are not value-free and do not act as non-hierarchical networks
  • These free agents do not have a responsibility or an obligation to provide a critical point of view.
  • need for critical literacies
  • level of presence.
  • critical literacies, such as collaboration, creativity, and a flexible mindset, that are prerequisites for active learning
  • Other benefits were seen in the form of the extension of personal networks and in new blogs and Twitter participants to follow. Participants highlighted the need for a sense of trust and feeling comfortable and confident to be able to participate, a sense of presence and community that some participants found on the PLENK Second Life site.
  • it is impossible to sustain the high level of reading, thinking, and engaging with materials and people that happened at the beginning of the course.
  • building identity and reputation is being developed over time
  • critical ability to not only use network resources, but also to look at them critically in order to “appropriate them and redesign them,
  • for networked learning to be successful, people need to have the ability to direct their own learning and to have a level of critical literacies that will ensure they are confident at negotiating the Web in order to engage, participate, and get involved with learning activities.
  • confident and competent in using the different tools in order to engage in meaningful interaction.
  • takes time for people to feel competent and comfortable
  • level of learner autonomy
  • four major types of activity:
anonymous

The Privilege of "Digital Literacy" - 2 views

  • “I’m wondering if the new digital divide…is not about access but about people who have the time, energy, and skills to develop new media literacy and those who don’t.”
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    "the real divide in the future will not be between those who have access to the Internet and those that don't. Instead it will be those who know how to use that access well compared to those that don't. "
Brendan Murphy

Digital Citizenship - 4 views

Digital citizenship, identity and footprint. How does our online activities affect our lives in general. What changes do we need to make in our thinking.

digital citizenship Digital Literacy footprint 21st Century Skills

started by Brendan Murphy on 11 Apr 13 no follow-up yet
Rhonda Jessen

Why the Internet is Like the Mall - Discussing Online Safety With Students | Blogging T... - 0 views

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    Good post about asking students what they would do to be safe at mall, comparing that to internet safety
Brendan Murphy

Our privacy matters! | Youth, Identity and Online Sociability - 0 views

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    documentary on privacy as well as other rsources
Brendan Murphy

Easy ways to protect your online privacy and educate others | The Webmaker Blog - 0 views

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    Mozilla webmaker privacy. How to secure your firefox browser. Why it's important
Fredrik Graver

MOOCs and edtech collection - 0 views

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    A public Evernote notebook collecting various articles about MOOCs and edtech.
Rhonda Jessen

Manners Matter Netiquette Infographic | Knowthenet - 0 views

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    Long infographic that outlines dos and don't of online manners from knowthenet.org.ok
Rhonda Jessen

digital footprint | Student Blogging Challenge - 0 views

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    Great resources and blogging prompts about digital footprints from the Student Blogging Challenge website.
Brendan Murphy

You Are Your References | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 0 views

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    digital footprint
Rhonda Jessen

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/postaphoto-ms-hs-poster.pdf - 0 views

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    Infographic (flow chart style) about questions to ask before posting a photo online.
Michael Walker

I Am Not A Techie! - 0 views

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    I would love to hear thoughts and comments on this from our #OOE13 group!
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