Historical Context of Digital Literacy (EDDL 5111 – 2.2) From rocks and sticks used within family to the advent of the paper/printing press (1400s), to correspondence learning programs, to the advent of television/audio capability to share information and then the introduction of computers (1970s) to the massive digital/technological revolution that continues, contemplating the history of […]
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My Take on Digital Literacy Digital literacy, to me, is a set of technological skills where mastery and/or operational proficiency is achieved and the individual is conscious and critical of how the digital tool is used, the context of where the tool came from, and is creative in how it can be applied to problem-solve […]
ED- Tech Help As a SBRT I’ve been dabbling with educational technologies designed to help students with special needs access materials, develop their literacy/numeracy/digital skills, and demonstrate their learning. It has always been a challenge in my position to have enough time to deeply learn and understand the tool because of logistic complications involved in […]
State of Technology in Education – My thoughts about MediaSmarts/Canadian Teachers Federation. (2016). “Connected to Learn: Teachers Experiences with Networked Technologies in the Classroom”. http://mediasmarts.ca/sites/mediasmarts/files/publication-report/full/ycwwiii_connected_to_learn.pdf What a fascinating, and well done survey of Canadian teachers. As I was skimming the article I couldn’t help but imagine being the researcher who spent time designing the questions […]
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Distributed learning is a broad definition of an educational experience that encompasses online learning where there is a distance between teacher and student for the majority of time, allowing for in-person contact, a variety of technologies, methodologies and experiences blended together to create individualized learning that provides learner flexibility and efficiency for both teacher and […]
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It’s been quite a week of learning for me. I’ve been challenged with technical difficulties getting blog admin privileges, never mind needing to develop a new vocabulary to even participate in the conversation. I started the week off having no idea what a blog is, never heard of WordPress, wondering where Moodle was, trying to […]
Hi Everyone, I really enjoyed using the Adobe Spark app on my phone to create this basic introduction. I shared it with my family and friends at work (in my online/home-based learning program VLearn – SD22) today and one of my colleagues has already forwarded the link to her students for them to use too! […]
“Really simple syndication” is a bit of an understatement for a technology challenged learner, but I’m working with it! I’ve chosen to work with the RSS, Feedly, based on the recommendations in the resources. After learning all about the now defunk Google RSS, I was saddened to not have it as an option! I’ve been […]
Hi! My name is Nic. I’m a new online/home-based teacher/learner and am working really hard these days to manage learning so many new things! I recently began a new teaching position as School Based Resource Teacher (SBRT .2) and online/home-based K-7 teacher (.3) through one of my district’s alternate programs. I have worked as a […]
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