digital literacies & learning design

Digital Literacies

& Learning Design

What are Digital Literacies?

Your thoughts

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Digital literacies defines those who exhibit a critical understanding and capability for living, learning, and working in the digital society. JISC, 2013

Critical understanding of …

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Different, competing definitions of digital literacies

Digital literacies more than functional or technical skills

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How does this connect to Curriculum for Excellence?

Within Curriculum for Excellence literacy is defined as:

the set of skills which allows an individual to engage fully in society and in learning, through the different forms of language, and the range of texts, which society values and finds useful.

Literacy across learning: principles and practice

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Current society; current perceptions

Technology is becoming embedded


It’s a way of life!


Debatable?


Mobile(s) (devices) are here to stay…?


But...

Are we welcoming technology in the Classroom?

How can we prepare the digital literate learner?

Digital dissonance

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Digital Natives?

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Digital Visitors

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ResidentsWhite & Le Cornu

“Learners do not appear ‘to see beyond’ the immediately obvious functionality of the technology and there is little evidence of transfer”

Clark et al, 2008, p.68

“To possess the machines, [they] only need economic capital; to appropriate them and use them in accordance with their specific purpose [they] must have access to embodied cultural capital, either in person or by proxy”

Pierre Bourdieu1986

Learning Design to drive technology

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*Not* technology to drive the curriculum

Where to begin?

... with the end!

What are learners to achieve?

How are learners to engage with their learning?

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Authentic learning requires authentic assessment

Changing assessmentchanging the way learners communicate their learning

Technology can support that process...

... but cannot replace it!

as a book?~Michael Coghlan

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beyond the pdf...

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Embedded

Moving beyond the classroom


from consumer to co-producer

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prosumer

learner centred


social

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The role of the teacher?

creating contexts for learning


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The digital classroom is a mind-set!

Any technology tends to create a new human

environment... Technological

environments are not merely passive containers

of people but are active processes that reshape

people and other technologies alike.

M. Mcluhan, 1962

Creating new challenges


Project based

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Promoting forms of inquiry

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Encouraging collaboration


Unlocking potential