Category Archives: literacies

Sustaining narratives for the news age

Posted on June 15, 2009 by

The planets seemed to align lately with a few converging themes in relation to boredom thresholds and the atomisation of information. Harry Lewis voice at Googalization of Everything- ‘The factoids are not just instant; they are atomic. We keep e-mails … Continue reading →

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MySpace cadets sliding into addiction

Posted on April 4, 2009 by

Miranda Devine’s reminder of the perils of technology (SMH April 4) are  timely, given the announcement this week of the $150 million schools laptop rollout. Just as TV did to a generation of children (myself included), we need to ward … Continue reading →

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Knowledge Naztis

Posted on October 8, 2008 by

In a weak moment almost found myself agreeing with Miranda Devine’s piece SMH. Her article starts off well enough talking about how we crowd our day with processing data streams, and how Barack  Obama and Paul Keating have implored us to … Continue reading →

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Being digital citizens

Posted on October 23, 2007 by

Email from colleague Janet Burstall about a ‘Cybernite’ held at her daughters school (for parents and students) regarding being a digital citizen- great initiative. Wonder how many other schools are doing this? Time we (DET) thought of putting together a … Continue reading →

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Real critical literacies

Posted on October 15, 2007 by

Howard Rheingold’s recent speech delivered at education.au seminar in Melbourne, prompted my thinking in terms of what we need to teach our students (and teachers), to become C21 citizens, not just in terms of essential researching /information skills but also … Continue reading →

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Embedding Web 2

Posted on September 20, 2007 by

Workshop discussion last week with UK ICT in education policy experts, Owen Lynch, Tom McMullan and Jimmy Stewart and from Edu.au. Greg Black and Garry Putlin . Many trends were reinforced through the discussion: Increased use of Mobile learning devices … Continue reading →

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Digital literacy in a knowledge economy

Posted on September 11, 2007 by

Essay on the ABC website (thanks Ian) by John Hartley, is a good encapsualtion of the argument for fostering real critical literacies to create open innovation networks. Although schools and universities certainly teach “ICT skills” and even “creative practice”, so … Continue reading →

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Net Geners

Posted on June 12, 2007 by

A timely article by Barbara Combes (Edith Cowan Uni) from her thesis on behavour of the Net Gen. Her analysis of research on the Net gen largely debunks the myth of an intuitive user who is capable of using electronic … Continue reading →

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Tips on developing a Wiki Community

Posted on June 5, 2007 by

Much is writetn on developing blogs but the Wiki seems a little neglected lately, but Danny Horn’s piece adds a good insight- Small Wikis are different A wiki is a volunteer project The individual is important People don’t like anonymity- … Continue reading →

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Changing literacies

Posted on June 4, 2007 by

Clarence Fisher’s work on what constitutes the new ‘digital literacies’. A lot has been written on this over the years but there seems to be renewed interest with the advent of blogs,wikis etc. Some useful comments in relation to ‘networked … Continue reading →

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Reflections on -Trying again

Posted on April 27, 2007 by

This my third attempt to sustain a blog-lets start the roll…c\Coming back to blogging has a given me some better insights. Firstly its a different style of writing/experience – a mixture of documenating work, thoughts-journalising. But also for an unseen … Continue reading →

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