From Reading to Using – Literacy has always been changing: We don’t read the same way as people did when they read the old handwritten and illustrated manuscripts in the Middle Ages. We don’t read the way 19th century readers did when they devoured the lengthy three volume novels of their day. We don’t usually [...]
didyouknow.movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U Change & Unpredictability Teachers today are preparing students for an unknown world: for jobs that don’t exist, based on technologies that haven’t been invented as yet, for problems that we cannot now see, and which will change. Basic Rule: We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking that created them [...]
Just about everyone in Australia spends a lot of time in front of a screen: every day. http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/07/04/ScreenReading460.jpg Many people – young and old – can go all day without looking at a page. In the 21st century screens have become the usual way for obtaining information – whether its for employment, entertainment – or [...]
In the 1970s electronic copies were made of many of the great books (Project Gutenberg); today Google is digitising most of the books in the great libraries of the world. Both projects wanted to preserve the print heritage and initially produced a ‘record’ of the printed form that could be read on a computer screen. [...]
DID YOU KNOW ……. What you can do when connected? Did you know that you can do almost anything that is educationally desirable, interesting, and engaging through using Web 2.00 – and that the smart mobile phone now connects to it? Video: What you can do with WEB 2.00 http://www.neccning.org/video/web-20-in-education Did you know that more [...]
Serious fun and games and the need for a working party for girl’s games One of the most successful education initiatives at Djarragun College has been the introduction of computer/video games. This has been made possible since Cisco ‘wired’ the school. Despite the popular – and largely negative – image of video games as models [...]
10 Things You Need To Know About Digital Literacy DOWNLOAD PDF: dale spender – TEN THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DIGITAL LITERACIES Print has been the medium for education for almost 500 years. As a culture – and as educators – we have been brought up to ‘think in print’. (Print has many characteristics [...]
