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Tony Searl

SocialTech: Online Educa Berlin 2010 Keynote: Building Networked Learning Environments - 2 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 21 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • what constitutes digital literacy or digital literacies, should, in symmetry with the subject itself, not be perceived as a problem we aim to solve, or a thing we aim to determine once and for all.
  • At some point, we need to agree actions.
  • What I’m interested in is supporting the skills and critical thinking about educational engagement in networked environments, and particularly in how educators and learners can use these to support and transfigure existing practice.
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  • Supporting or learners and staff to use collaborative digital environments and tools in safe, critical and innovative ways should be on the top of all our digital literacy wish lists and informing local and national policy and practice.
  • We need to be mindful that a great deal of current research highlights correlations between socio economic status and access.
  • But supporting all of our children and young people’s ability to have meaningful, useful and safe online interactions means that we don’t further disadvantage some of our most vulnerable populations.
  • It turns out what people most want to know about their friends isn't how they imagine themselves to be, but what it is they are actually getting up to and thinking about
  • Recent research has clearly underlined the need to address children’s and young people’s use of the internet, mobile and games technologies in the context of digital literacy.
  • The report points up young people’s largely pedestrian use of technology, and highlights the role that educators could and should be playing in supporting young peoples engagement as producers, creators, curators rather than primarily as consumers:
  • There are many definitions of digital literacy. In one of the earliest (2006), Allan Martin defined Digital Literacy as “…the awareness, attitude and ability of individuals to appropriately use digital tools and facilities to identify, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, analyse and synthesise digital resources, construct new knowledge, create media expressions, and communicate with others in the context of specific life situations, in order to enable constructive social action; and to reflect upon this process.” 
  • The characteristics across many of the available definitions are that digital literacy are that: it supports and helps develop traditional literacies – it isn’t about the use of technology for it’s own sake or ICT as an isolated practice it's a life long practice – developing and continuing to maintain skills in the context of continual development of technologies and practices it's about skills and competencies, and critical reflection on how these skills and competencies are applied it's about social engagement – collaboration, communication, and creation within social contexts
  • Tony Searl on 21 Dec 10
     
    reducing our aims just to types of skills risks boring everyone to death with short lived, tool specific training which doesn't address the social and political context of people's lives or their reasons for engaging with technology.
Rhondda Powling

Critical thinking In the classroom - 18 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 20 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 07 Dec 10
     
    Designed to assist teachers to help their students, Microsoft offers this a free 37 page ebook entitled Developing Critical Thinking Through Web Research Skills. The ebook presents strategies for teaching Internet search skills and strategies for evaluating information. The ebook also links to many additional resources for teaching web search strategies. There are strategies and resources appropriate for students from in early elementary grades through high school included in the ebook. AOf course it has many references to Bing and other Microsoft products, but overall it is a good resource.
Rhondda Powling

Incompetent Research Skills Curb Users' Problem Solving (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 2 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 15 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 15 Apr 11
     
    A good short piece about how users search, and the importance of teaching information literacy in schools. One problem with search engines is that they are too good at finding information. The users see them as "answer engines" but the users may then do less critical analysis and rely on simple strategies only
Rhondda Powling

information fluency model - 3 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 09 Aug 13 - Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 09 Aug 13
     
    "Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically. DIF involves knowing how digital information is different from print information; having the skills to use specialized tools for finding digital information; and developing the dispositions needed in the digital information environment. As teachers and librarians develop these skills and teach them to students, students will become better equipped to achieve their information needs."
Tony Searl

Twitter / Home - 1 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 24 Dec 08 - Cached
  • dougpete @JoHart It's going to be a skill to learn, to be sure. #beatcancer
  • Fifikins No, I wouldn't steal a car, but geez, if I could download one for free on the internet I damn sure would!
  • melhutch RT @MaryKayG It will be wonderful when cancer is something we teach students about in History class. #beatcancer
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  • annehodg RT @GeekTown Every tweet that has #beatcancer today raises money for cancer research - they're going for world record today. Please RT
  • annehodg RT @ GeekTown Every tweet that has #beatcancer today raises money for cancer research - they're going for world record today. Please RT
  • annehodg RT @ GeekTown Every tweet that has #beatcancer today raises money for cancer research - they're going for world record today. Please RT
  • raises money for cancer research - they're going for world record today. Please RT
  • annehodg RT @ GeekTown Every tweet that has #beatcancer today raises money for cancer research - they're going for world record today. Please RT
  • anonymous on 24 Dec 08
     
    Grammar Grater - short, lively podcasts on vocab and usage in the Information Age
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