3 Tips for Capitalizing on Your Students’ Digital Literacy Skills - Top Hat Blog

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3 Tips for Capitalizing on Your Students’ Digital Literacy Skills - Top Hat Blog:
Digital literacy is one of the few skills that we don’t formally teach in the classroom, probably because it is one of the few skills that the students are more comfortable with than the instructors. I have never had to hold a class of the proper use of hashtags. Nor have I ever been forced to discuss the intricacies of the Facebook “like” vs “dislike” buttons debate. Surprisingly, I have never once thought, “you know what we need in this class, a close examination of Vine videos”…Maybe I should start thinking this way, because the literacy that I learned with a pen and pencil has long since been replaced by the language of daily communication: digital literacy. This new-age literacy comes out of the rise of integrated social networking. To clarify, this network has become all encompassing. Every time you..

Culture of Learning

This is my MM7 presentation on WizIQ

ABOUT ONLINE LEARNING

Blended Online/Face-to-face Courses

The term blended learning implies that some of class time/activities will be in the classroom, and some will be online. For example, a course where students traditionally would be expected to be in class for 3 hours per week, in a blended course would come to class for 1 hour and spend 2 hours per week in online activities.

Ideally, the use of BlackBerry can help in the organization and execution of learning tasks. These include reading, research, writing, sharing, and group-work. The following partial list illustrates various strategies that you can implement:

• Online assessment: move your tests, quizzes and practice tests into the Bb testing engine. Tests are delivered and marked automatically.
• Set up “communities of practice” using Bb’s discussion forums and group work areas for smaller teams. Many instructors break up large classes into small teams and assign learning tasks to the teams. The teams eventually use Bb to report back to the class as a whole about their results.
• Put all your reference materials in Bb
• Place pre-class work online (learning activities students must complete before attending face-to-face classroom activities).
• Set up coaching forums to help cover complex or tough subject areas.
• Deliver learning aids or lab support materials online (e.g. power point shows, handouts)
• Provide access to “experts” via the web.
• Use e-mail effectively with the “send e-mail” tool. Blanket the entire class with a general announcement or select specific groups/teams or individuals.
• Create folders for each module; insert resources, practice tests, sample assignments, readings, etc. – Label clearly.

http://www.georgiancollege.ca/academics/centre-for-teaching-learning/onlineblend...

Teaching in the 21st Century

REAL TEACHING, TRAINING AND LEARNING ARE CHANGING IN SUBSTANTIAL

WAYS.

TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION ARE DRIVING NEW APPROACHES

TO EDUCATION.

WHAT THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION LOOKS LIKE.

 

Back to the Basics.Online or Not Online...

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Technology-Will-Never-Fix/230185/


"How many of you have ever tried to take a free course on the Internet?" 
Over half the class raised their hands.
"And how many completed it?" 
All the hands went down.

Blended learning

This is what I do.