digital literacy
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Storify: CaneLearn summit for K-12 Online & Blended Learning
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The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
When Nicholas Carr wrote the infamous article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (2008), he made waves in the education community who had bought into the Marc Prensky vision of today’s students as “digital natives” (2005). While making impetuous decisions about technology integration in schools, Carr halted everyone into thinking maybe we should be a bit…
book reviews, definition of literacy, digital literacy, educational research, games, information literacy, Jim Collins, literacy, marc prensky, Nicholas Carr, Nicholas Jackson, non-fiction, professional development, reading, research, school librarian, school library, secondary school library, secondary school teacher, struggling reader, teacher-librarian, technology integration, The Shallows, transliteracy, Zite -
Transliteracy and the teacher-librarian
I submitted this paper today in fulfillment of the requirements for my M.Ed. INTRODUCTION From curious to competitive I always felt most comfortable working with students in portfolio courses where students knew what they needed to accomplish and had ample opportunity to do and re-do their assignments until they were satisfied. I came into being…
Alanna King, Andrew Churches, Brantley-Dias, Chris Dede, Christine Bruce, David W. Moore, definition of literacy, digital literacy, Doug Achterman, education technology, educational research, Elizabeth Dobler, Hilary Hughes, Ian Jukes, information literacy, ISTE, Julie Coiro, Lee Crockett, library leadership, Lindy Henderson, literacy, literacy promotion, Mary Somerville, Matthew J. Koehler, Michael Fullan, Nicholas Carr, ontario school library association, Pam Berger, professional development, Punya Mishra, research, Ruben Puentedura, SAMR, Sonia Livingstone, Stuart Hales, Sue Thomas, teacher-librarian, technology integration, TPACK, transliteracy -
Literacy is NOT Enough by Lee Crockett, Ian Jukes and Andrew Churches
Literacy Is NOT Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age by Lee Crockett My rating: 3 of 5 stars Andrew Churches has been one of my professional development gurus ever since he developed the Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy https://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloo… . This is my first encounter with the other two authors and I think they’ve….watered down…
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Presentation: Redefining reading for Milennials
I start off trying to set context for 4 variables in redefining reading: reader, user, hardware and software using myself as the reader/user. Then I add in various perspectives on how digital reading is changing reading and finally I suggest that teachers and teacher-librarians can play a key role in levelling the playing field for…
Audible, David Warlick, definition of literacy, digital literacy, Don Tapscott, Doug Achterman, Foxit, Goodreads, information literacy, Jim Collins, Koehler, learning commons, literacy promotion, Milennials, Mishra, Nicholas Carr, Penny Kittle, Redefining reading, Ruben Puentedura, SAMR, school librarian, Scott McCloud, secondary school library, Sonia Livingstone, struggling reader, student-centred learning, technology, technology integration, TPACK, transliteracy -
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,500 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 42 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…
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