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As a first part of approaching the concept of digital literacies and what it means for my teaching, I tried to apply David White’s model Visitors and Residents on myself. The idea with the model is that I can get an overview and opportunity for reflection on my attitudes and ...
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The digital dilemma – visitor vs. resident

While addressing the challenge of educating millennial children Marc Prensky (2001) emphasized on the technological environment that they are brought up in.  Prensky coined Digital natives and digital immigrants to label today’s digital users  but failed to notice much larger problems such as digital divide. Instead of labelling users, the ...

Digital native and digital footprints

I needed to sleep on it, and I woke up in the middle of the night seeing my self as a spider. The question is? I´m I trapped or is it me doing the net? I´m certainly stuck but I doesn´t dislike it! It´s just the way it is and ...

Digital native and digital footprints

I needed to sleep on it, and I woke up in the middle of the night seeing my self as a spider. The question is? I´m I trapped or is it me doing the net? I´m certainly stuck but I doesn´t dislike it! It´s just the way it is and ...

Silicon(nected)

The reason why I am taking this course is to sharpen my pedagogical skills during a pandemic period in which we are ‘forced’ to online teaching. The ONL is very promising in that regard.... ...

Silicon(nected)

The reason why I am taking this course is to sharpen my pedagogical skills during a pandemic period in which we are ‘forced’ to online teaching. The ONL is very promising in that regard.... ...
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Magnus Johansson

I research and teach about disasters – with a focus on lessons learning to support mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. Most of my courses are distance, with a PBL approach to some extent, and with a few meetings for seminars on campus. I look forward to learn more about PBL ...

Anatomi

Jobbar på för fullt och nu börjar bollarna bli ett par stycken i luften. Ser verkligen fram emot kursstart för våra programstudenter i vecka 41. Förra veckan producerades presentationer i mängd till den milda grad att jag såg tänder till och med i de sista skördade grödorna :). Jobba, jobba, ...

Mixed feelings but not “fischy”-feelings

I´m not used to work by a PBL perspective or at least it is for the first time I do it conciously. If you look at the layout and the idea, I want to say that in some way I already solved tasks acoording to the PBL method without having ...

Starting something new (ONL202)

When the state of academia turns more and more towards a ‘Publish or Perish’ model, the focus on teaching slowly reduces. It is not a new development that it is less important to ‘perform’... ...