Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens - Jun 27 09
June 27th, 2009Media Literacy moves from recognising and comprehending information to the higher order critical thinking skills such as questioning, analysing and evaluating that information. (Source: OFcom)
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Inside this Media Literacy digest:
- Attention and Distraction - Educators and trainers face competition for attention from mobile devices and social networking services.
- Social Media: Trends and Implications For Learning - …explore emerging technological and related research trends from a perspective of social and networked learning theory.
- Failing New Grading Approaches - A prof doesn’t have the funds available to hire teaching assistants to help with grading, so he adopts a peer-review model.
- Language and Connectedness - Connections create words, language, and conceptual understanding, all formed by social connectedness and continually adaptations fostered by feedback and interactions.
- Opera Unite - Whenever a system is created - school models, corporations, or browsers - ideologies of the age are embedded.
- Social. Networks. Learning. Organizations - How should organizations “restructure” on network principles?
George Siemens‘ Media Literacy Digest takes you to places, facts and resources to help you make sense of the fascinating changes that new media technologies are bringing to the educational landscape.
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