How should educators design / develop / create / manage a digital learning environment (DLE)? (ETL523 Modules 3-5)

Why create a quality DLE? The reasons behind and processes for creating a quality DLE is much like creating a ‘Learning Commons,’ (which I’ve discussed in two previous posts from ETL503 Resourcing the Curriculum: click here and here). How do we create a quality DLE? The article from Chen & Orth (2013) is absolutely amazing, … Continue reading How should educators design / develop / create / manage a digital learning environment (DLE)? (ETL523 Modules 3-5)

Best practice for leading and supporting digital citizenship

(Reflecting on my learning in ETL523 Modules 4, 5 & 6) “Digital leaders understand that we must put real-world tools in the hands of students and allow them to create artefacts of learning that demonstrate conceptual mastery. This is an important pedagogical shift as it focuses on enhancing essential skill sets—communication, collaboration, creativity, media literacy, … Continue reading Best practice for leading and supporting digital citizenship

14 DLE Digital Citizenship ‘Issues’ (ETL523 Module 2)

Digital Learning Environments (DLE) and digital citizenship implementation have a few issues and dilemmas that must be considered by teacher librarians, and all educational stakeholders: Lack of growth mindset: Educators are often reluctant to change. We expect students to have an open mind to proactively embrace new things and attempt to connect to personal learning … Continue reading 14 DLE Digital Citizenship ‘Issues’ (ETL523 Module 2)

Digital Citizenship in the Curriculum (ETL523 Module 1)

21st Century learning and COVID-19 – catalysts for change: With the COVID-19 lockdown, the Digital Learning Environment (DLE) issues are relevant like never before. Teachers who have been allowed to stick to their paper programs, regurgitating content from previous classes that they’ve taught or from purchased sources and shying away from digital tools and applications, … Continue reading Digital Citizenship in the Curriculum (ETL523 Module 1)

What is Digital Citizenship?

Before I fully delve into the ETL523 Digital Citizenship content, I need to briefly determine what I think digital citizenship is, in terms of being an educator of (young) children. Digital citizenship is primarily an add on to citizenship. We must behave in a civilised manner in life, both face to face (citizenship) and online/electronically … Continue reading What is Digital Citizenship?

Social Media in ‘Your’ Organisation – Reflection on INF506 Module 4 and Assessment 1

OLJTask 10: Defining librarian 2.0 I don’t have an ‘organisation’…but I have the goods! While I did read the module, I simply did not have time to read everything thoroughly and then complete this post before I submitted my first assessment. Thus, this reflection is written in support of that assessment and how I could … Continue reading Social Media in ‘Your’ Organisation – Reflection on INF506 Module 4 and Assessment 1

Social media tools and platforms – Reflection on INF506 Module 3

OLJ Task: Social news sites – My Musings Recent events have caused a major cultural shift in how we view ‘news’ and the media responsible for ‘reporting’ the ‘news.’ Yet, it is not actually all that recent. I myself (born in the 1970’s) can remember turning off the television or radio when the news came … Continue reading Social media tools and platforms – Reflection on INF506 Module 3

Information and society – Reflection on INF506 Module 2

OLJ Task 2: The influence of technology on society or OLJ Task 3: Reflections on the impact of change To be or not to be (active on social media) is no longer the question If we want ‘customer-driven, socially rich, and collaborative model of service and content delivery’ (module 2) then we must stop asking … Continue reading Information and society – Reflection on INF506 Module 2

Introduction to Social Media – Reflection on INF506 Module 1

OLJ task 1: Social Media and Society – Journal Article Analysis Self Esteem and Social Media, a Reflection: I’ve selected the article by Lavrence & Cambre (2020) because it (and a few other of the articles provided) brings up another issue (in addition to those I mentioned in my previous post – not part of … Continue reading Introduction to Social Media – Reflection on INF506 Module 1

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