People are talking about DSL (Digital as a Second Language) nowadays and Gavin's talk was about the importance of being digitally fluent if you're a 21st century teacher. So important in fact, that Gavin has written a book about it, with co-authors Nicky Hockley and Mark Pegrum (Digital Literacies, Pearson, 2013) There are many different digital literacies relevant to language : (texting, print, gaming, mobile, multimedia, code); others with a focus on information (information, search, tagging); those that relate to connections (personal, participatory, network, and (inter)cultural) and remix. The last of these Gavin illustrated by showing a video of Tony Blair and George Bush's love song. In the current age, we need to take all of these into consideration because they are part of the skill set that people need and in some ways, as Gavin mentioned, educators are now preparing people for jobs that currently don't exist. Mobility is now one of the key factors
I have replaced my old commenting system with the new Blogger one. This means that all the old comments have disappeared, but the commenting system should be better in the future.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering how this comment feature worked...apparently you have to be a member to post here as when I clicked on "comment" I was asked for login name and password...so you cannot have comments from non-members like in Haloscan...bit too restrictive.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I like the way they appear directly on the page below the original post. By the way...I have just noticed the link to the Topics Magazine on the right is dead...just to let you know :-)
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ReplyDeleteYou're right - I will look and see if Blogger allows anonymous comments, because the message is "This blog does not allow anonymous comments" when you click on the link.
Thanks for telling me about the dead link.
I was right - on the comments features, you can set the option for 'registered users only' - I have changed this now, so that anyone can post comments.
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