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Excerpt: Earlier today I tested Google Hangouts On Air with Theo Kuechel. As we stumbled our way through the various apps and features we talked about a number of issues. Here are 4 immediate observations as I am strapped for time as usual. 1) It will be interesting to see how this scales and what the implications are for permissions around it (Handle With Care). The problem will be how it conflicts with T&C’s and institutional expectations in schools. Theo will be writing a post about this and Glow on his blog Digital Signposts. The fact is it is a fairly democratic medium and people…
Google Hangouts On Air – First Run
May 9, 2012
in Adult Learning, advisory, conferences, Continual Professional Development, CPD, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, DRM, Educational Change, Learning Content, Learning Platform, Learning Tools, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, mobile, mobile learning, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, video, video streaming, Web 2.0
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What we need now is a new mindset for education
October 21, 2008
in Continual Professional Development, Digital Divide, Digital Media, distributed networking, DRM, Educational Change, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning
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Excerpt: Photo attribution BitBoy on Flickr CC licence I have just been reading Josie Fraser’s amazing post called Notes Towards Digital Literacy over at SocialTech. As she so succinctly puts it: “However, while it is a critical area of development and resourcing, e-safety alone is not enough. To regard it as anything except a critical element within a wider digital literacy framework, and to attempt to teach it alongside an antiquated, generally programme-specific ICT education is to short change our learners, and to fail to recognise the technological, social and economic shifts that have take place globally. To not integrate and model good…
Channel 4 Digital Media Literacy Conference
November 16, 2007
in conferences, Continual Professional Development, Digital Divide, Digital Media, DRM, Innovation, open source, Personalised Learning, podcasting, Scottish Learning Festival, Web 2.0
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Excerpt: L4L were recently at the Digital Media Literacy conference at Channel 4 organised by Policy Unplugged today covering events. Here are some brief notes… Heather Rabatts chair of Media Literacy Taskforce (informal think tank) introducing the day talking about to engage in the debate.Hon James Purnell MP Secretary for State for Culture Media and Sport.Topic he is covering.How media literate are we – Ofcom’s audit tracks progress over time. Charter for Media Literacy. Media Literacy at heart of the Curriculum. Framed within the literacy context and other subjects, art and design and media art courses. 50 specialist art colleges with…
