Digital Storytelling: Extending the Potential for Struggling Writers | Adolescent Literacy Topics A-Z
By: Ruth Sylvester and Wendy-lou Greenidge While some young writers may struggle with traditional literacy, tapping into new literacies like digital storytelling may boost motivation and scaffold understanding of traditional literacies. Three types of struggling writers are introduced followed by descriptions of ways digital storytelling can support their development. What it means to be literate has broadened to not only include traditional literacies, reading and writing print text for example, but also to reflect the needs of students living and learning in a digital world. The subsuming technologies of the computer — CD and DVD players, wordprocessing functions, Internet access, and other new digital technologies such as Web 2.0 applications (e.g., blogs, wikis, and RSS aggregators) — require the user to have new literacies not necessary for traditional literacies. Technological literacy refers to the skills needed to adequately use computers. Struggling writers Back to Top Kyle Ray
The New Learning Architect: A Book Review
Sharebar Clive Shepherd’s latest book, The New Learning Architect, starts out where many books for training professionals end. It responds to the learning dilemma of the 21st century, “There is more to know than can possibly be taught.” He builds his thesis around the idea that instructional designers and training professionals will need to become learning architects, people who design environments for learning—similar to the way architects design environments for living and working. In addition to the more traditional skills of understanding requirements, audience characteristics, content and learning constraints, it is crucial for the learning architect to stay current with instructional research and the latest technologies. The Learning Context Clive Shepherd, author of The New Learning Architect In keeping with this approach, Shepherd outlines the characteristics of the four learning contexts as follows: Top-down and Bottom-up Profiles and Stories One last point. Conclusion
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The UIS publishes a broad range of publications, including analytical reports, technical papers and statistical frameworks. The aim is to disseminate timely and internationally comparable data relevant to evidence-based policymaking at the national, regional and international levels. The majority of publications focus on education issues, reflecting the breadth of related statistics and indicators in the UIS database. All major titles are published in either English or French or both. To order a print publication: Please send your request to uis.publications@unesco.org. Search the document library
11 Ways to Learn in 2011
Sharebar Because last year’s list of 10 Ways To Learn In 2010 was widely read, I knew I had no choice but to create an even longer list for 2011. The opportunities for online learning have grown tremendously this past year. 1. We all know how important it is to gain and sustain a learner’s attention. There are three options for reading Focus: 1) Download the free eBook (it’s the fourth item listed on my Goodies page), 2) buy the Kindle edition on Amazon or 3) get the Premium version, which is a complete digital course. 2. Learn how to do something you’ve always wished you could do, but needed step-by-step instructions to get there. 3. There are so many places to visit and so little time. 4. Although life doesn’t come with an instruction manual, these blogs try to provide one. 5. As we slip into the digitization of everything, learning traditional skills becomes ever more important. 6. There are scores of ways to fulfill your inner geek. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
What Instructional Designers Do-Updated
What is instructional design? Instructional design involves the process of identifying the skills, knowledge, information and attitude gaps of a targeted audience and creating, selecting or suggesting learning experiences that close this gap, based on instructional theory and best practices from the field. Ideally, workplace learning improves employee productivity and value and enhances self-directed learning. As social media technologies for learning become increasingly important to organizations and to individuals, instructional designers will need to focus on broad learning events and strategies that incorporate many approaches rather than on individual courses. What is the instructional design process? Although the approaches people use to design and develop online instructional events vary widely, the common denominator is that the process is systematic and iterative. The standard instructional design process can expanded by including design thinking. Professional Foundations
Book Review: 100 Things Every Online Student Ought to Know by Bill Brandon
The sections on online learning and study skills and strategies, and on how to benefit from online student support, might well be of some value for students with weaker abilities in those specific areas. The concept might also be adaptable for use with training programs in business and government. If you are an online educator, [this book] is at least worth looking at as a possible resource for your adult learners. Some books are so simple, and so useful in concept, that we really have to wonder why nobody wrote them sooner, and wonder how they escaped notice for so long. 100 Things Every Online Student Ought to Know is one of those books. The methods for delivery of instruction and education have changed, and so have learners. This small manual for adult learners intends to address the mismatches between expectation and experience. What’s so good about this book? In the 224 pages of 100 Things, there are actually 102 tips, and some extras. What could be better about this book? Bottom line
Précis de recherche en EIAH
L’objet des travaux de recherche relatifs aux Environnements Informatiques pour l’Apprentissage Humain (EIAH) est d’étudier les situations pédagogiques informatisées et les logiciels qui permettent ces situations. L’utilisation de l’informatique pour l’apprentissage et l’enseignement se développe et évolue sous le coup de différents facteurs inter-reliés comme la poussée technologique (faible coût des technologies, facilité et banalisation de leurs usages), l’évolution des connaissances scientifiques, la demande sociale ou encore l’évolution des pratiques des enseignants et des élèves. Au sein des travaux et actions liés aux EIAH, les travaux de recherche ont un rôle particulier à jouer : élaborer des connaissances. Actuellement, l’évolution des connaissances scientifiques n’est pas le facteur qui influe le plus sur l’utilisation effective des EIAH. -o-o-o- Le terme conception peut renvoyer à différentes significations. Les EIAH sont des objets artificiels.
