Dlld session1

Digital Literacies

& Learning Design

How is the digital world changing practices?

Which practices have changed more dramatically?

What technologies do you use?

Is this a good or a bad thing?

What technologies are being discussed here?

“The modern world overwhelms people with data and this is confusing and harmful to the mind”

(Conrad Gessner,

1565)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicksherman/532754738/in/faves-cristinacosta/

“It will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories.“

(Socrates, 469-399BC)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/alancleaver/4460976042/in/faves-cristinacosta/

It socially isolates readers and detracts from the spiritually uplifting group practice of getting news from the pulpit”

(Malesherbes, 1787)http://www.flickr.com/photos/37718677955@N01/181017723

It might hurt radio, conversation, reading, and the patterns of family living and result in the further vulgarisation of American culture“

(Ellen Wartella, 1962)http://www.flickr.com/photos/88164721@N00/5607140169

“They exhaust the children's brains and nervous systems with complex and multiple studies,and ruin their bodies by protracted imprisonment”

An article in the weekly medical journal the Sanitarian, 1883

“It’s making us stupid”

(Nicholas Carr, 2008)http://www.flickr.com/photos/77697591@N00/675663779

Debate:

should schools ban or restrict internet use by pupils because some misuse it?

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

What literacies do we need?

What literacies do we need to master in a world gone digital?

What are Digital Literacies?

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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 …

Your thoughts

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Different, competing definitions of digital literacies

Digital literacies more than functional or technical skills

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Your thoughts

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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

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/10/16155220/13

Current society; current perceptions

Technology is becoming embedded

http://www.flickr.com/photos/86251769@N00/438190053

It’s a way of life!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40645538@N00/2796862756

Debatable?

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

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48600091327@N01/4569922802

But...

Are we welcoming technology in the Classroom?

How can we prepare the digital literate learner?

Digital dissonance

“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

Creating a new kind of digital divide...

…connected to digital Habit(u)s

And social class…(!)

Deursen, A. J. van, & Dijk, J. A. van. (2014). The digital divide shifts to differences in usage. New Media & Society, 16(3), 507–526

Lower educated people make less use of the Internet for personal development than the higher educated.

Conversely, the lower educated use the Internet more for gaming and social interaction than the higher educated

Deursen & Dijk, 2014

“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

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sovietuk/5861614/sizes/l/

*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?

Blooms taxonomy (revised)http://www.flickr.com

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/10838559@N00/2098689878

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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

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tearsandrain/3526002850/in/faves-cristinacosta/

beyond the pdf...

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Embedded

Moving beyond the classroom

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from consumer to co-producer

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prosumer

learner centred

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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

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21314760@N00/1583345201

Project based

learning

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71477195@N00/204879104

Promoting forms of inquiry

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72211347@N00/327122302#

Encouraging collaboration

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49512158@N00/3434414425

Unlocking potential

Creating your own blog

www.wordpress.com

In which area of the curriculum (learning activities) would you like to use technology?

Search for examples online Think how you can integrate

technology in your lesson plans Use your blog to reflect about it

How can we use technology to teach/support/motivate writing?