drones and libraries
categories: announcement, Library and information science
Drones and Robots for Reference? (RUSA-MARS)
Sunday, June 28, 2015 – 3:00pm to 4:00pm
more on drones in this blog:
Archive of ‘Library and information science’ category
on media literacy
categories: Digital literacy, media literacy
Martens, H., & Hobbs, R. (2015). How Media Literacy Supports Civic Engagement in a Digital Age. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 23(2), 120–137. http://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2014.961636
p. 134 How the different forms of literacy interact and support each other is a key question for future research, giventoday’s complex and convergent media and information environment
p. 135 Our findings support the growing demand for policymakers, educators, and community advocates to embrace media literacy as an important resource to fulfill the promise of digital citizenship.
DGBL and digital literacies
Digital game-based learning levels up digital literacies
My note: excellent Australian article, which presents a very strong point on digital literacies (metaliteracies, see URL below) from educators (versus library) perspective. Connected with game-based learning, it clearly renders the traditional perspective of information literacy as miniscules and the notion of digital literacy being “information literacy on steroids” as obsolete. It clearly shows that the “xxx-literacies” are clearly not a domain of the librarians and if the librarians do not wised up and allow other faculty who are “not librarians” to equally participate, they might well count with those faculty going on their own (as it is transparent from this article).
connections will be made between digital game-based learning and digital literacies to show that digital game-based learning is a powerful pedagogy that incorporates the elements of digital literacies. Through the adoption of game-based learning, digital literacies can be taught in context. Digital literacies are the skills that connect the learning content (curriculum) and digital games are the platform that these digital literacies can be practised within a meaningful context.
Digital literacies is an umbrella term that includes a combination of literacies – visual literacy, media literacy, collaborative literacy, ICT literacy, information literacy – that are needed to take an active, participatory role in life, now and in the future (Hague & Payton, 2010, p. 2).
Bawden (2008), cites Gilster (1997), who defines digital literacy as “an ability to understand and use information from a variety of digital sources and regard it as literacy in the digital age” (p.18).
Jisc, identify in their Digital Literacy Guide that it is a concept that is contextual and it is not static. Change is imminent as new technologies develop “at breakneck speeds” (Becker, 2011, p. 76), therefore, it can be inferred the digital literacies required to use these new technologies need to be adaptable and flexible to these changes (Haste, 2009).
Cooper, Lockyer & Brown (2013), highlight this plurality by using the term “multiliteracies” which can be understood as synonymous with digital literacies. Cooper et al. (2013), explain multiliteracies is required as a “broader view of literacy” (p. 94), is needed as a result of the diverse range of communications tools, therefore, context is implied. Ng (2012) also highlights this idea that digital literacy is “the multiplicity of literacies associated with the use of digital technologies” (p. 1066). The combination of multiliteracies and technologies would also suggest that multimodality is an important element of digital literacy (McLoughlin, 2011) .
7 elements of digital literacy in their Developing Digital Literacies Guide (2014), which can be seen below.
digital games (Pivec & Pivec, 2011), which can also be called computer games (Whitton, 2011), video games (Turkay, Hoffman, Kinzer, Chantes & Vicari, 2014) or serious games (Arnab et al., 2012) rather than gamification.
Digital game-based learning then is using digital games in the learning environment with the purpose of achieving learning aligned with learning theory.
Cognitive constructivism is a learning theory that game-based learning could be aligned (Orr & McGuinness, 2014; St-Pierre, 2011). This learning theory builds upon the theories of Piaget and Bruner, therefore, an important consideration in the digital game-based classroom would be that choosing games needs to fit the age and level of intellectual development the students are at (St-Pierre, 2011).
A major focus of the socio-constructivist learning theory is that of Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (St-Pierre, 2011). The learning is designed “just beyond what the learner can do” (Orr & McGuinness, 2014, p. 223) and takes them beyond where their knowledge already exists.
More on digital literacy (metaliteracy) and DGBL in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/11/30/game-based-learning/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=gaming
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=gaming
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/02/20/digital-literacy-2/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=digital+literacy
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/11/27/reframing-informatioan-literacy-as-a-metaliteracy/
wearables design
categories: mobile devices, technology literacy
Smarter Wearables – A vision of the future of the Smart Watch
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/smarter-wearables-vision-future-smart-watch-rich-walters
upgradability, material usage, fashion accessorizing, or interface design
More on wearables in this blog:
Google Keep
Google Keep
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/05/how-to-create-edit-and-share-notes-on.htm
After yesterday’s post about making the most of Google Keep I received a few emails from readers wanting to know a bit more about how Google Keep works. To answer those questions I recorded the short video that you see embedded below (click here if you cannot see the video).
alternatives to lecturing
50 Alternatives To Lecturing
Learning Models
4. Game-based learning (https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=gaming)
5. Project-based learning (https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=project+based)
7. School-to-school instruction (using Skype in the classroom, for example)
9. Problem-based learning
12. Mobile learning
13. Gamified learning (gamification)
14. Cross-curricular projects (teaching by topic: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/03/24/education-reform-finland/)
15. Reciprocal Teaching
17. Face-to-Face Driver blended learning
20. “Online Lab” blended learning
21. Sync Teaching
23. HyFlex Learning
24. Self-guided MOOC
25. Traditional MOOC
Literacy Strategies
28. Write-Around
29. Four Corners
30. Accountable Talk
31. RAFT Assignments
32. Fishbowl
33. Debate
34. Gallery Walk
35. Text Reduction
37. Traditional Concept-Mapping (teacher-given strategy–“fishbone” cause-effect analysis, for example)
38. Didactic, Personalized Concept Mapping (student designed and personalized for their knowledge-level and thinking patterns)
39. Mock Trial
40. Non-academic video + “academic” questioning
41. Paideia Seminar (http://www.paideia.org/, http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/paideia/, http://www.mtlsd.org/jefferson_middle/stuff/paideia%20seminar%20guidelines.pdf)
42. Symposium
43. Socratic Seminar (https://www.nwabr.org/sites/default/files/SocSem.pdf)
44. QFT Strategy
46. Directed Reading Thinking Activity
48. FRAME Routine
49. Jigsaw Strategy
Other
50. Content-Based Team-Building Activities
52. Role-Playing
53. Bloom’s Spiral
54. Virtual Field Trip (http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/scw/)
55. Physical Field Trip
56. Digital Scavenger Hunt (http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/bi/)
57. Physical Scavenger Hunt
http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/50-alternatives-to-lecturing/
education reform
How to reform education
two articles in the New York Times, which are relevant to SCSU and LRS
What to Learn in College to Stay One Step Ahead of Computers
- Two strains of thought seem to dominate the effort to deal with this problem. The first is that we teachers should define and provide to our students a certain kind of general, flexible, insight-bearing human learning that, we hope, cannot be by computers. The second is that we need to make education more business replaced-oriented, teaching about the real world and enabling a creative entrepreneurial process that, presumably, computers cannot duplicate. These two ideas are not necessarily in conflict.
- Richard J. Murnane and Frank Levy in their book “The New Division of Labor”
- the study certainly suggests that a college education needs to be broad and general, and not defined primarily by the traditional structure of separate departments staffed by professors
- The developing redefinition of higher education should provide benefits that will continue for decades into the future. We will have to adapt as information technology advances. At the same time, we must continually re-evaluate what is inherently different between human and computer learning, and what is practical and useful to students for the long haul. And we will have to face the reality that the “art of living in the world” requires at least some elements of a business education.
Why More Education Won’t Fix Economic Inequality
- strengthening education so that more Americans can benefit from the advances of the 21st-century economy. This is a solution that conservatives, centrists and liberals alike can comfortably get behind.
- Brad Hershbein, Melissa Kearney and Lawrence Summers o
- Hamilton Project, a centrist research group operating with Wall Street funding and seeking to find third-way-style solutions to America’s problems that can unite left and right.
- “Increasing the educational attainment of men without a college degree will increase their average earnings and their likelihood of being employed,” the authors write.
- In other words, it’s worth pursuing more and better education for working-class Americans on its own terms, because it will improve their lives and economic potential. Inequality, meanwhile, is a deeper problem, and its potential solutions remain ideologically divisive.
why necessary to know how to code
Why People Are Obsessed With Teaching Kids How To Code
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/12/05/why-people-are-obsessed-with-teaching-kids-how-to-code
Computers and the software they run are not magic. Nor should they be perceived as such.
Learning to code is not valuable because everyone needs to program computers, but because such an integral part of modern life needs to be understood at a basic, comprehensible level.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-important-to-know-how-to-code
More on coding and education in this blog:
social media in education
7 Ways Social Media Has a Role in Education
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2015/03/7-ways-social-media-has-role-in.html
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The Stats – College, Career, and Citizenship Success
Look who’s watching:-
1/4 of college admissions officers consider digital footprint
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3/4 of human resource managers
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1/3 of employers reject candidates based on something found in profiles
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More stats and info at https://magic.piktochart.com/output/1328944-nycdoe_create-the-digital-image-
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Social Credibility is the New Credentialing
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Student Learning Networks
In the age of social media, the teacher is no longer the center of learning. The student is. One of the most important things an educator can do is support students in developing a powerful learning network. It also requires an understanding of how to effectively use these tools to connect, collaborate, and grow learning. Want to know more? 15-year-old Alex Laubscher explains here. -
Work More Effectively
Social media allows you to change the paradigm from “teacher” as expert to “group” as expert. This reduces emails and increases the access to good answers and connections. My note: it is extremely important to understand that “teacher” in this case covers librarians -
Connect with Experts via Twitter
You can find a world of experts on any topic if you have literacy in using Twitter also know as “Twitteracy.” Just know the right hashtags and how to find experts and you have the world’s best knowledge at your fingertips. It is better than any rolodex allowing you to connect anytime, anywhere, with the interested parties who are available now. -
Release the Amazing Work of Students from the Classroom to the World
We hear stories in passing about the great work happening in schools, but usually it’s locked in a school or classroom or trapped on a laptop. Social media puts an end to that. Click here to find out what it was.
More on social media in education in this blog:
Fusking
Fusking = using a program to extract files names from a website that would seem obvious. Like 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc. http://fusking.urbanup.com/3995415#.VVNxIdIMi54.
How hackers built software to steal naked photos from hundreds of women automatically
The Dark Art Of “Fusking”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/the-dark-art-of-fusking
Fusking: Photobucket Fights Back Against Peeping Toms, Sends Takedown Notice To Reddit Pages
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/16/fusking-photobucket-takedown-notice-reddit_n_1792472.html