Digital Storytelling resources
The use of digital storytelling in education is in its infancy but seems to offer a useful tool in assisting reflective learning, investigating and recording the student experience.
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Having been a player in this field for quite some time, I often find it frustrating that we converse within the ether of our social networks totally isolated from colleagues we meet in the school staffroom. My frustration lies in how we illustrate the value of new media to these colleagues in that elevator ride (30 second) timeslot we have to capture their attention, before the shutters come down.
I’m also aware of the right of every student to be educated to live and work in today’s society. For this reason, I’ve embedded here a video from Becta Web 2.0 in Education which deserves more than the 7221 views it’s had to date. Reason being, I believe it provides a clear explanation of why we should be using Web 2.0 tools in education. The term ‘Web 2.0′ is actually becoming redundant as the Internet evolves as an interactive space for creating, collaborating and communicating, however, it’s worth retaining for now as increasing numbers of educators are exploring change in the classroom.
Coaching at school on a daily basis and interacting with participants in the SLV/SLAV Personal Learning Project (PLN) reminds me constantly of the need to meet people where they are at with new media. It’s easy to unconsciously slip into jargon and suddenly be out of reach. Developing a climate of safe questions and conversations via Twitter and Facebook has evolved through the PLN project as an exceptionally effective support tool, illustrating clearly that success in adopting new media is not about struggling with it alone but rather, being part of the larger conversation.
Our students live socially interactive lives. A 2010 report Social Networking in Developing Countries is a market research document but it shows the social networks available across these countries that are also being used for communication.
Finally, a member of my personal learning network Hamish Curry @hamishcurry distributed a reference today via Twitter. It’s a post from January 2011 by Mahomed Kharbach entitled The 21st century pedagogy teachers should be aware of - I recommend this post as an accessible overview to anybody still trying to grasp details of the new media literacies.
2012 Horizon Report Wiki – home
2012 Horizon Report: Higher Education edition – preview and shortlist. Full report due soon. To be followed by K12 and Australia & New Zealand Report.
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The Digital Citizen – Andrew Churches
To be a citizen, of a country brings certain rights nad responcibilities.In Rome, a citizen was exempt some taxes, protected against certain punishments, empowered with rights like voting, making contracts, marriage and standing for office. But with these rights also came responsibilities.
iBooks Author is designed for creating textbooks. If you’re thinking about using it for other types of books, you can — but understand that this app may not necessarily be the tool you’re looking for if you want to create and sell books on all ebook platforms.
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Howard Rheingold has written extensively on what it means to be ‘literate’ in today’s world of exponential information growth and social connectivity. See his excellent article published in EDUCAUSE Review entitled Attention, and other 21st Century Social Media Literacies where he explains that to be information fluent today requires an individual to think critically and to build literacy through:
This video focusses ‘critical consumption’ – the ability to think critically and identify the difference between true and false information sources. How do we teach this to our students? Rheingold explains that literacy is not simply skill development but a combination of skill building and social involvement. Literacy today, he insists, is no longer text based but is a combination of:
This video Crap Detection 101 by Howard Rheingold is informative and provides ideas that can easily be transferred into the classroom for the benefit of students. 25 minutes well spent.
Much has been published in recent weeks about the proposed US SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) legislation, the intention of which was to provide control over copyright and the free use of resources shared via the Internet. This proposal started with the intention of controlling the widespread sharing of resources online. However, sharing online in today’s information landscape doesn’t only relate to media corporations and information related businesses, it relates to every individual who uses Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and all those applications we use on a daily basis. The ramifications of this legislation were far reaching and would effectively close down the Internet as we know it today. Thankfully, common sense has prevailed through online networks, influential individuals and sites like Wikipedia rallying to highlight the consequences, and the legislation has been withdrawn.
Why should we be concerned about this issue as Australians? New models are required for all industries today. The banks and telecommunications industry were early players in the field, the retail and education industries are amongst the latest. We are all having to rethink of the value, worth and influence of our products and services. Libraries are reinventing themselves. It is now spreading to the classroom where students have increased access to resources beyond the knowledge of the teacher. Like the media companies, we cannot run away from this but must look at new ways of working within a changed information environment. This is not a United States issue, it’s a world issue of which we all need, at the very least, a basic understanding.
Clay Shirky provides a succinct overview in his TED Talk: Why SOPA/PIPA is a BAD idea
Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media lays out the argument on Google+
PCWorld also provides a clear discussion in relation to small business
There will be more said about this topic and more legislation proposed both in Australia and elsewhere. In 2009 the Australian Federal Government was pushing to censor the Internet via ISP providers giving rise to sites such as No Clean Feed. This will be an ongoing issue until new models evolve of which we must all be aware.
Apple’s iBooks 2, iBooks Author: Bids to own publishing’s future – latimes.com
Alongside Apple stating that iBooks 2 and textbooks on the iPad would reinvent the textbook as we know it, the iPad-maker announced Thursday that it would also attempt to reinvent book-making by way of an app called iBooks Author.
Similar to Apple’s Keynote or Pages (or Microsoft’s PowerPoint or Word) apps, there are templates for different types of book layouts, and adding the interactive 3-D models, photos, videos and diagrams that Apple showed off in iBooks 2 textbooks on Thursday is as easy as clicking and dragging a built-in widget — provided you have the video, photos, diagrams and models already produced.
This is going to make the production of OER resources so much easier.
Biz/ed – Learning Zone | Biz/ed
This is a UK site but is a valuable resource for teachers of Accounting, Business Studies, Economics, Leisure Sport & Tourism, Travel & Tourism. Can easily be adapted to Australian teaching requirements.
Evernote for Educators – LiveBinder
This is a Livebinder of Evernote resources and tips for educators by Justin Stallings. Evernote is a powerful and flexible management tool and one of my favourites. As a cloud computing application, it’s accessible on all devices, anywhere. Free for basic or more if you pay.
The writing’s on the wall for pen and paper | The Australian
Christopher Bantick making a case against the use of handwriting in schools. ”Any examination format that actively discriminates against the desirably technologically proficient is crazy. A student who researches and types their essays over the course of the year and then is expected to hand write cogent, fluent, legible essays by longhand in three hours is being subjected to unfair and inconsistent expectations. Universities are increasingly assessing blogs and electronic-based submissions because they realise where students are at. Schools need to do the same and examination boards need to show far greater capacity to assess electronically.”
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Building Thought Leadership through Content Curation | Slideshare
This slideshare presentation is a good overview of the content curation making the distinction between curation and aggregation. Curation is not simply the gathering and distribution of sources, it’s the adding of context, value and opinion, creating meaning, interpreting.
How Memory Works – Online Colleges [Infographic]
Infographic oh How Memory Works illustrating memory and factors influencing it.
Empowering Young Learners; Stephen Heppell – eLearning Blog Dont Waste Your Time
In this film, Stephen Heppell describes his vision for schools, meeting with kids at the ‘Be Very Afraid’ conference, and exploring ideas for classroom design in a technology pilot school.
Content Curation for Influence | Profitable Popularity Blog
The key hallmark that separates content curation from simple sharing is that content curation usually involves an addition of comments or more information from the one who is curating, where a simple share is just a repeat of what the original poster originally shared.
Creating the Library of Tomorrow from the Ground Up | MindShift
Librarianship “used to be about building your collection, cataloging it, and making it accessible to people,” says Bruijnzeels. “Today those three things are completely different from when most library schools were designed. In our school we want to look for a new process, which is about imagination, technology, and participation. These days the public library might start with the books on the shelves and the e-books, but it’s really about content and context and meaning and sharing information, which are completely different processes from what we learned 25 to 30 years ago.”
Good support materials for integrating Evernote for students
While the primary motivation for putting a project in the Zooniverse is to collect data on a well-defined research question, the very fact that hundreds of thousands of people world-wide view the projects generates an amazing potential for education. The projects within the Zooniverse provide an excellent resource for inquiry-based learning within the classroom or for home-school groups.
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Teaching with infographics| places to start – NYTimes.com
Not only do charts, graphs and maps show up on standardized tests of all kinds, but whiteboard technology has made the graphic depiction of information that much more useful and ubiquitous in classrooms.
Top Ten Social Commerce Infographics for 2011 | Social Commerce Today
Daily deals and online purchasing are regular Internet activities. These info graphics sum them up in a nutshell. Some thought inducing summaries!
What Mattered In 2011 For Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC] | 4thWeb
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