Empowering Developmental Education with Digital Literacy Tools

1. Using as a tool in developmental education Melissa Burgess, eDd

2. literacy: some background Section 1

3. Digital Literacy • Definition • “The ability to use digital technology communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information.” • www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/templates/Page_60.aspx

4. Digital literacy: what is it and who does it (and who doesn’t do it) Section 2

5. Digital literacy: natives • Characteristics: • Want information quickly • Multi-task • Prefer graphics rather than text • Are socially networked • Thrive on instant gratification • Prefers games to “serious” work

6. Digital literacy: immigrants • Characteristics: • Use Internet or other • online resources second • to books • Print out email • Read the manual for a software • application rather than assuming • the program itself will teach us how to use it • “Did you get my email” phone call

7. Digital literacy: multimodal information • Traditional literacy focuses on R-W-S-L (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening) • Digital literacy expands this to include Viewing and Representing through ‘multimodal text’

8. Traditional vs. digital literacy: some examples

9. Digital literacy: implications in developmental education • Issues regarding education and digital literacy: • Digital immigrant educators--whose teaching pedagogy does not speak the same language, are struggling to educate their students who speak in a very different language now.

10. Digital literacy: educators, education, and environments Section 3

11. Digital literacy: The 21st century educator • Characteristics: • Adaptive • Communicators • Lifelong Learners • Visionaries • Leaders • Models • Collaborators • Risk takers

12. digitAL LITERACY: 21ST CENTURY EDUCATOR • Constructivist Approach: • Learners construct their own understanding • New learning depends on current understanding • Learning is facilitated by social interaction • Meaningful learning occurs within authentic learning tasks • Watch this video on Digital Literacy in Education

13. Environments/tools that support digital literacy • Blogs (e.g., Blogger, Wordpress) • Wikis (e.g., Wikispaces) • Web-as-a-platform applications (e.g., Googledocs) • Podcasting (e.g., Gcast) • Digital Storytelling (e.g., Voicethread) • Multi-user virtual environments (e.g., Second Life) • Interactive maps • eBooks • WebQuests • Social networks/communication (Facebook, IM, Skype)

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15. Why Should developmental educators use ? ?

16. Using to educate • Use Skype to deliver one-to-one tutoring or small group tutoring with audio or text • Virtual conferencing/office hours • Guest speakers/authors • To connect with other students in developmental education courses anywhere around the world • Peer tutoring • Group activities – Roles • Organizer • Greeter • Producer • Camera/technical • Interviewer • notetaking

17. What do I need to get started with ? ? • When using audio and video : microphone and webcam • When using the text feature: nothing needed

18. Skype resources • Classroom 2.0 • 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom • Use Skype with Students • Using Skype in the Classroom • Skype Across the World • Using Skype in the Classroom (another one!) • All Schools Should Skype • Bookrix and Skype—Think of the Possibilities!