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Comment on Digital Literacy issues in Further Education by colinmaxwell

colinmaxwell — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:36:43 +0000

At my college we have an open policy for Social Media sites. In my department (Creative Industries) we have Facebook groups for all of our student groups. These are used successfully to share information and for students to post examples of their work for critique. The students very rarely used the forums in the Moodle VLE, preferring the tools they use outside of college to communicate. Recognising this we sought to take a lead from the learners (a learner centred approach?).

We are also seeing a growing number of students bringing their own laptops to college. Again, they prefer to use the technology they’re most comfortable with, without the constraints and restrictions imposed by an educational computer network / computer use policy.

I share your concerns about the technology ‘have-nots’, but should we prevent students using their own equipment and put artificial barriers in their way? After all, we need to embrace diversity.

Comment on What are the barriers to FE students becoming effective learners in a digital world? by andrewey

andrewey — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:33:55 +0000

Hi Steve

Thanks for your comments

Andrew

Comment on What are the barriers to FE students becoming effective learners in a digital world? by Steve Cropper

Steve Cropper — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:41:12 +0000

Observations from working with young people who are (allegedly) “digital natives” suggest that (a) a suprising number still lack basic IT skills. They may be able to text like lightning, but do not understand simple word document functions. Their spelling and grammar are frequently poor which means that while they may be able to find information if the search engine recognises their errors, their ability to communicate it effectively is often lacking (b) distraction remains a major issue. Keeping to the task in hand is difficult for some students when there are so many more “interesting” avenues than the specified coursework to explore (c) the instict of many youngester to head straight for Google generates an inordinate ammount of unwanted information, even for experienced searchers and (e) the indexing of e-books and the platforms themselves is fairly rudimentary and can lead to missed information.

(b)

Comment on What is Digital Literacy? by Tweets that mention What is Digital Literacy? « Andrew Eynon’s Library Blog -- Topsy.com

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:11:03 +0000

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Comment on Websites to support Reader Development by More online resources for Reader Development « Andrew Eynon’s Library Blog

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:51:35 +0000

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Comment on Mobile Web 2.0 applications on the iphone and ipod Touch by Andrewey

Andrewey — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:55:34 +0000

Probably just for simplicity’s sake – in that it doesn’t require me to login. I do use Google Reader on my PC, via iGoogle. Those are work related RSS feeds. I also have some other RSS feeds in separate panels.

When using the iPod I only want one set of RSS feeds – the free reader enables me to sync to my Google Reader feeds and add any additional ones I want. The reason why I probably wouldn’t need to upgrade this app is that for additional functionality I would just stick with Google Reader.

Comment on Mobile Web 2.0 applications on the iphone and ipod Touch by Ian Gardner

Ian Gardner — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:07:29 +0000

Hi Andrew,

Can I ask why you would use that RSS reader over the Google Reader application? I find the Google suite (including Reader) to be very useful.

Thanks
Ian

Comment on Mobile social networking apps on the ipod Touch by Tom Roper

Tom Roper — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:47:59 +0000

And if you can bear the sickening name, Tweetie, in my opinion, is better than Twitterific

Comment on Mobile social networking apps on the ipod Touch by Robert Woodside

Robert Woodside — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:50:51 +0000

Also check out Centrl, pretty cool lbsn,… – http://centrl.com

Comment on Delivering information literacy in FE by Carrying out the library educator role « Andrew Eynon’s Library Blog

Carrying out the library educator role « Andrew Eynon’s Library Blog — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:57:28 +0000

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