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3 Knowledge Domains For The 21st Century Student
Thinking in the 21st century is just different. That doesn’t mean we’re all suddenly omnipotent cyborgs, nor does it mean we’ve all become mindless social media addicts that spend our cognitive might tapping, swiping, and drooling on our smartphone…
Read More »The “New and Improved” Digital Citizenship Survival Kit
I have been thinking about some “new” items I could add to my original Digital Citizenship Kit that I created last year. Like I said in that blog post, I love using props when teaching. Source: comfortably20.blogspot.ca See on Scoop.it…
Read More »six-year-olds understand digital technology better than adults
Children, growing up with YouTube, Netflix and Spotify, learning to use smartphones or tablets before they are able to talk Source: www.theguardian.com See on Scoop.it – Digital Literacies
Read More »Understand Creative Commons Licensing With This Chart
Creative Commons is an ideal way to share your creations with others and find art for personal projects. Some of us, though, don’t always understand the rules. This chart helps you understand the key differences among licenses. Source:…
Read More »Even Our Youngest Students Need Digital Citizenship Skills
As the Internet becomes an increasingly important part of all of our lives, children are spending more time online as well. And they are doing this largely without any guidance about what is responsible or appropriate online. While…
Read More »Standards For Digital Citizenship In Graphic Form
These standards are broken down into 5 categories for students, teachers, administrators, coaches, and computer science educators. According to wikipedia (don’t judge us), this process started in earnest in the late 1990s, and the result today is comprehensive–which leads us to the above graphic from the simplycurious wiki.
Source: www.teachthought.com
Read More »Focusing On Creativity In A Digital Era
Our children will grow up into a world that we can barely yet conceive of. Education thinkers and leaders are now in broad agreement that in order to enable children to succeed in the 21st century we need to mould creative thinkers and problem solvers who can learn, unlearn and relearn.
Source: www.teachthought.com
Read More »Crystallising Evaluation Designs – A Reality Check for Developing Digital Literacies
The point is to reach a stage in designing the evaluation where we can clearly articulate and plan an integrated methodology that informs and drives a project towards its intended outcomes.
Source: elearning.jiscinvolve.org
Read More »Is coding the new literacy?
There’s a whole host of complicated reasons why, from boring curricula to a lack of qualified teachers to the fact that in most states computer science doesn’t count toward graduation requirements. But should we worry? After all, anyone can learn to code after taking a few fun, interactive lessons at sites like Codecademy, as a flurry of articles in everything from TechCrunch to Slatehave claimed. (Michael Bloomberg pledged to enroll at Codecademy in 2012.) Twelve million people have watched a video from Code.org in which celebrities like NBA All-Star Chris Bosh and will.i.am pledged to spend an hour learning code, a notion endorsed by President Obama, who urged the nation: “Don’t just play on your phone—program it.”
Source: www.motherjones.com
Read More »Studies Discover How Computers And The Web Are Changing The Way We Learn and Remember – InformED
Computers have transformed our daily lives so much that it?s hard for most people who have grown up in this digital age to imagine a time without technology.
Source: www.opencolleges.edu.au
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