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3 Tips for Capitalizing on Your Students’ Digital Literacy Skills - Top Hat Blog
This is very important article for teaching with technology approaches.
I am a lifelong learner and a teacher.
I would like my students to follow new ways of learning.
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I should start thinking this way, because the literacy that I learned with a pen and pencil has long since been replaced by the language of daily communication: digital literacy.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..
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Monday, December 28, 2015
European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
According to the definition provided by Hewlett (n.d.), open educational resources are “teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others”. These can include whole courses of open content, textbooks, multimedia, software and any other materials which may be used to teach or support learning such as lesson plans and curricula. There remains some debate about what should qualify as an ‘open’ resource, with some definitions emphasizing open access to resources and others focusing on the affordances for revising and repurposing afforded by open licenses (see Creative Commons, 2013). However, any disagreements tend to be limited to the specific kinds of licenses for educational that are termed ‘open’ and whether they should permit specific forms of re-use (such as only allowing non-commercial re-use).
According to the definition provided by Hewlett (n.d.), open educational resources are “teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others”. These can include whole courses of open content, textbooks, multimedia, software and any other materials which may be used to teach or support learning such as lesson plans and curricula. There remains some debate about what should qualify as an ‘open’ resource, with some definitions emphasizing open access to resources and others focusing on the affordances for revising and repurposing afforded by open licenses (see Creative Commons, 2013). However, any disagreements tend to be limited to the specific kinds of licenses for educational that are termed ‘open’ and whether they should permit specific forms of re-use (such as only allowing non-commercial re-use).
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