15 February 2010This is the third annual report to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy on developments in internet filtering and other measures for promoting online safety.
Hargittai, E. (2010). Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the "Net Generation". Sociological Inquiry.
80(1):92-113.
"People who have grown up with digital media are often assumed to be universally savvy with information and communication technologies. Such assumptions are rarely grounded in empirical evidence, however. This article draws on unique data with information about a diverse group of young adults' Internet uses and skills to suggest that even when controlling for Internet access and experiences, people differ in their online abilities and activities."
Workforce Futures - a National
Workforce Development Strategy for Australia. Our vision for this strategy is that Australia has the workforce capability it requires for a productive, sustainable and inclusive future, and that Australian enterprises have the capacity to develop and use the skills of their workforce to maximum advantage for the benefit of industry and the community.
Skills Australia 2010
Can now be used to deliver assessments on many portable devices, including:
*Apple iPhone/iPod touch®
*Microsoft Windows Mobile® devices
*RIM Blackberry® devices
* 1 Definition of Pedagogy
* 2 Moodle in three short paragraphs
* 3 Social Constructionism as a Referent
* 4 How Moodle tries to support a Social Constructionist view
* 5 Finding a balance
* 6 Progression
* 7 Where Moodle can do better and what we're doing about it
o 7.1 Repositories and Portfolios
o 7.2 Community Hubs
o 7.3 Better interaction between tools
o 7.4 Metadata and outcome statements
o 7.5 Role-playing and scenario simulations
* 8 What else would you like to see?
* 9 Interesting links
The Australian Access Federation (AAF) provides a framework and support infrastructure to facilitate trusted electronic communications and collaboration within and between universities and research institutions in Australia and overseas. The AAF uses cutting edge technologies to provide a range of automatic identification services, which will allow authentication of people (researchers, teachers and students) and resources (servers, services, networks, instruments and data). It enables resource owners to identify and authorise a researcher to access online resources, such as computer facilities, data and other research infrastructure, at their home institution, at other Australian institutions, and around the world.
Understanding the "Why" of any initiative should be a key step prior to implementation. Without a clear understanding of our "Why" how are we to judge the success of what we are implementing. How will we know which steps take us in the right direction if we have no concept of why we are journeying. In our implementation of ICT (Information & Communication Technologies) and now Digital Technologies, a lack of clarity on the matter of "Why" has often been the most significant challenge to success.
Twitter is a great place for educators to share ideas. It has become my go to place when I am looking for something to read, a new idea or some inspiration. It is a great avenue for sharing practice, asking questions and building a community.
But . . .
. . . Twitter has some problems and these seems to be growing. To get the most out of Twitter a degree of caution is advised.
Our language choices communicate both intended and unintended messages. In the choices we make, in the subtlety of these choices, lies a truth more powerful than that conveyed by a literal reading of our words. When we look closely and critically at our use of language, we begin to see particular patterns which reveal much about what we genuinely value and expect from our learners.