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Digital Literacy in the Age of Information: Ensuring Credible Content

Kitaboo

If you’re an educator grappling with poor academic records of your wards, try to revamp your pedagogy by leveraging the prowess of innovative learning solutions that are up for grabs. It is high time we incorporated the latest K12 digital innovations into our pedagogy. Why is Digital Literacy Important in the Modern Age?

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Shifting sands

Learning with e's

Such approaches to pedagogy were rooted in the behaviourist model of psychology that privileged expert knowledge and formalised its transmission to novices. For example, social media is encouraging learners not only to discover existing knowledge, it is also enabling them to create, repurpose, organise and share new knowledge.

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We Teach as We are Taught

Kapp Notes

In terms of pedagogy, much of the efforts during the current generation of teacher’s formative years were focused on the students as empty vessels to be filled with the wisdom of the instructor. New York: Teachers College Press. Instructors tend to teach in the same style and format in which they have been taught. Goodson (Ed.).

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with e's

It is not difficult to see that such sharing of knowledge can be easily achieved through social media and the use of personal digital technologies. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 17 (3), 183-193. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 17 (3), 195-205. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 17 (3), 207-220.

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A message to Auntie

Learning with e's

Now and then, just to fall in step with the tabloid press, BBC News resorts to sensationalist headlines. Predictably, the somewhat negative spin in the article provoked a small storm of social media comments and TV interviews, while the anti-technology brigade gleefully rubbed their hands. All teachers would agree with this.

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A message to Auntie

Learning with e's

Now and then, just to fall in step with other the tabloid press, BBC News resorts to sensationalist headlines. Predictably, the somewhat negative spin in the article provoked a small storm of social media comments and TV interviews, while the anti-technology brigade gleefully rubbed their hands. Simply tell it like it is.

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Why we learn more at play ? gamification and rewards for learning

Ed App

According to Harvard University’s Project Zero study on the ‘Pedagogy of Play,’ playful learning is characterised by choice, wonder and delight. Towards a Pedagogy of Play: A Project Zero Working Paper. Democracy and education: An introduction to the philosophy of education , New York: Free Press. Ben Mardell et al. 107–133).