Guardian Article #jiscdiglit
May 16, 2012 Leave a Comment
Picked up by the Guardian:
First define what you mean by digital literacy: The definition I most frequently use is this one: digital literacy = digital tool knowledge + critical thinking + social engagement. Then it’s worth knowing its main characteristics:
• It supports and helps develop traditional literacies
• It’s a life-long practice
• It’s about skills, competencies and critical reflection on how these skills and competencies are applied
• It’s about social engagementTop tips for developing the digital literacy of non-traditional students: Begin by exploring the ways in which the group are already using mobile and web based technologies. Many of them will already be engaging with tech for personal use, for example Skyping relatives, keeping in touch on Facebook or using mobile phones. If you have a group who aren’t using technology in any of these ways, personal use might be where you start the conversation.
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Much to learn about videos #JISC, #ODHE
May 16, 2012 Leave a Comment
With no time to learn the camera, not long to capture everyone, and only a couple of hours experimenting with iMovie:
iMovie
May 15, 2012 Leave a Comment
Finally, necessity has forced me to get to grips with iMovie, and this video gave me enough tips to get going on the editing…
I’m currently trying to export the video, so let’s see if it becomes viewable…
Book Review: The Daily You
April 6, 2012 Leave a Comment
An interesting book review from Times Higher Education: The Daily You. We’ve discussed this quite a lot – the power of ‘niche’, and the danger that if you only look at things that are recommended to you because they’re similar to something you already like, how do you encounter the new?
The media industry has unquestionably been transformed by advertisers’ ability to collect data at the individual level about internet users and use it to design more effective ad campaigns. Here, Joseph Turow claims that the way individual-level data has transformed this media-buying process has been hidden except to a few industry insiders. The Daily You offers a nice description of how online advertisers now track internet users across websites in order to offer ads that they hope will be relevant and thus effective.
Turow is at his strongest when he describes, in careful but still accessible language, what media firms are doing and the technical details behind how they collect data. I particularly enjoyed his description of the inadvertently harmful effects of personalising news content. The fear is that by over-personalising news, newspapers inadvertently create “data silos” where someone who has not yet shown an appetite for international news will never have the chance to be exposed to it. This is something that deeply concerns Turow, a professor of communications, and his passion shows.
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Great TEDX Talk from @dajbelshaw #DigiLit
March 29, 2012 Leave a Comment
I’m currently working on a Digital Literacies project, for which Doug is the manager… great to see such a good TEDX talk (and he’s also a fun person to chat to at conference dinners!):
See Doug’s page related to this.
TEDx Warwick: The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies
TEDx Warwick: The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies
View more presentations from Doug Belshaw
Using @Pinterest in the Classroom
March 28, 2012 Leave a Comment
Checking out this article from Mashable/The Daily Dot, really interesting:
Sitting through stuffy lectures with a monotonous teacher is a student’s worst nightmare. But Pinterest may be changing that. Yes, Pinterest, the site where people pin their favorite pictures on boards to share with the world.
With Pinterest gaining traction by the day, it’s becoming a valuable tool for educators. Not only are teachers sharing tipsand using the site to grab ideas for lessons, it’s being used as a teaching tool too.
Pinterest is helping inspire students, increase student participation, and helping them tell stories.
For example, University of Minnesota adjunct instructor Leslie Plesser is using Pinterest in her basic media graphics class. Though her students are not graded for their use of Pinterest specifically, they are required to use it with their activity being factored into their participation grade.
“I am looking at their design work and comparing it to what they ‘like’ on Pinterest to see where they are drawing their inspiration from and it helps me to understand their personal design aesthetic, which I can then use in determining their project grades and in any advice I give on their work,” Plesser told the Daily Dot via email.
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Find my account on Pinterest, and see these training materials from @vahva.
Darwin wouldn’t have bothered with Twitter?
March 23, 2012 Leave a Comment
Checking out a story in i this evening, which reckons that Darwin (and other?) theories wouldn’t have happened in the modern day:
Our world is a frantic, intellectually combustible place. Opinions are 10 a penny in the age of Twitter. Mature reflection does not play a major part in public discourse. Knee-jerk reaction?
That’ll do. Of course, we have great thinkers today, but they are often drowned out by the general cacophony of soundbites and tweets in a world where we value pithiness over argument, where the ability to be smart, or funny, or controversial in a sentence is prized and envied. It does make you wonder what sort of intellectual legacy this generation will leave.
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