{"id":2363,"date":"2013-02-20T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2363"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:29:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:29:36","slug":"fun-with-digital-literacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/fun-with-digital-literacies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Digital Literacies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Monday evening I joined Doug Belshaw<\/a>’s etmooc session on Digital Literacies. It was an interesting session, Doug spoke mostly to his thesis What is ‘digital literacy’<\/a> and a lovely set of slides T3S1: Digital Literacies with Dr. Doug Belshaw<\/a>. Doug has archived, video and audio on the Internet Archive<\/a>. I’ve added my audio recording to the Unofficial ETMOOC RIPCast<\/a> where I’c collected some of the sessions I’ve attended and some I’ve missed.<\/p>\n

Doug took participants though some exercises in thinking about digital literacies working in a ether pad and in the blackboard session. I guess you needed a degree of digital literacy to keep up with it.<\/p>\n

Like Doug I do not believe in the idea of a digital native but am fascinated by how folk learn to read and write (watch, create, listen to etc) using digital tech. I believe that I’ve a reasonable degree of web literacy .<\/p>\n

This belief was challenged a bit as I watched folk start to define and redefine digital Literacies. It confirmed my suspicion that although I am somewhat digitally literate, I could not define what I mean by this. After the meet I still cannot. This reminds me of a quote, that I can’t quite recall or source, to the effect that a speaker of a language may not be able to make any true statement about that language. <\/p>\n

Fun<\/h3>\n

One factor in, if not measuring digital literacy, is a indicator, is the ability to be able to have fun in the language. Make jokes, puns, poetry and be relaxed when using it.<\/p>\n

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I recall, a few years ago(2007), a few Scottish Educators had join in using using Marritech<\/a> for the first time. We were all, for that time, experienced users of ICT in the classroom , none of us knew what we were doing. All you could hear were gales of laughter as we explored the tools, whiteboard slides and the like making a ton of mistakes.
\nThis feeling of relaxed fun was quite different from the experience of watch many teaching professional using ict. I am not sure how we move folk into this experience other than by modelling it when possible.<\/p>\n

Web Literacies<\/h3>\n

Towards the end of the session Doug explained his current work focuses on the more manageable task of creating a standard for web literacy. Learning\/WebLiteracyStandard – MozillaWiki<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This is very interesting stuff, and although I am sure that the grid Doug has produced, see Mozilla Web Literacies White Paper (v0.8) – Google Drive<\/a> could be argued with it provides a great structure for thinking around the subject. <\/p>\n

All in all this episode of #ETMOOC has got me thinking far more than I’ve time to organise in a blog post. I’d love to see helping pupils become confident webmakers become part of mainstream education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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