According to The American Library Association’s digital-literacy task force offers this definition: “Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.” But how do you know if you are digitally literate and how do you know how close you are… Continue reading Are you digitally literate or even digitally fluent? How do you know?
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Promoting digital literacy through critical digital pedagogy
Being digitally literate contributes to much of the success in a blended learning classroom. Success is to have satisfied students who have achieved the intended outcomes while gaining transferrable skills related to using technology. To increase students' digitally literacy on their road to digital competency they have to be given agency to discover on their… Continue reading Promoting digital literacy through critical digital pedagogy
Comparing Apples to Apples: Buffet Restaurants and Hybrid Learning
The more buffets are compared to hybrid learning the more similarities appear. There aren’t many buffets around anymore, and the rapid closure of many restaurants over the past year due to pandemic restrictions demonstrate the urgency to adopt to the needs of the customers (a.k.a. students). Diners might decide to eat at a buffet restaurant… Continue reading Comparing Apples to Apples: Buffet Restaurants and Hybrid Learning
Post Pandemic Prediction #3: Need For Flexibility
Post secondary institutions and their departments, instructors, and supporting staff will become much more flexible in the way courses are offered to meet the needs and demands of students and instructors. Many students have experienced a new form of learning since March, 2020. Some have adopted a new schedule based on their new flexible learning… Continue reading Post Pandemic Prediction #3: Need For Flexibility
Get the “non-sale sale”: Be a listener once again
In Daniel H. Pink’s To Sell Is Human, he discusses “non-sales selling”, or moving people to adopt new ideas or ways of doing things. This is what instructors and ninety percent of the population do daily. To do this, Pink writes, we must agitate rather than irritate our clients (students, coworkers, managers, etc.). The difference… Continue reading Get the “non-sale sale”: Be a listener once again
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