Bridging digital divides in the learning process: challenges and implications of integrating ICTs Digital divide 3 parts: digital access, digital capability, digital outcome. Projects on digital divide tend to focus on access, so open territory for research. Agenda for study: Take all the forms of digital divides and put them into a digital divides in the learning process. Digital access divide: socio-economic status, ethnicity, geographical region Digital capability: infrastructure, access. Top 4 positives from data so far? MORE >>

As my contribution to #etMOOC, I wanted to pull together some resources re: digital storytelling: Digital Storytelling – from app-list.posterous.com and HCS Mobile, which showcases students learning with mobile devices in Horry County Schools. Excerpt: Digital Storytelling combines images, narration, and other audio to tell a story. The NETS Standards have students creating, collaborating, and producing their own unique content – digital storytelling is a great way to meet this expectations while still advancing your academic curriculum. digital storytelling etmooc MORE >>

I am becoming increasingly aware of the the need to make clear a distinction between the broad concept of digital learning content, in all its many varieties, and the much narrower idea of interactive tutorials of the traditional CBT (computer-based training) variety. Unfortunately, most attempts to train l&d professionals in the design and development of digital learning materials begin and ends with the assumption that the end result will be a self-contained tutorial. Tags: digital content rapid e-learning MORE >>

I saw this earlier, the new Google Search Education, posted on the The Next Web website, and is flagged as a “new search education tool aimed at helping teachers pass on the necessary skills to young learners researching online”: This passage resonated with me, in the video from time-stamp 2:06; “The new digital divide is that those who are able to search, and those that aren’t able to search. ” Is this another side to the digital native/immigrant or digital resident/visitor discussion (argument)? Digital Native vs Digital Immigrant. MORE >>

In some ways, I argued, andragogy theory seems outmoded in the light of recent rapid developments in new teaching methods, learning resources and digital media. Building on this position, I would like to examine two further concepts - namely heutagogy (Stewart Hase) and paragogy ( Corneli and Danoff ) - which may offer more appropriate ways of framing learning in the digital age. Paragogy may also find more synergy than andragogy with emerging explanatory frameworks of digital age learning such as connectivism (Downes and Siemens). Unported License. MORE >>