Immigrants as permanent residents – natives as non-residents

Posted on by Ingrid Rystedt

In ”Visitors and residents: A new typology for online engagement”, White and Le Cornu make the argument that Prensky’s typology ’Natives and Immigrants’ is increasingly outdated. With the interpretation of natives and immigrants they (and, as I understand, Prensky) utilize, I probably agree. Still I have reflected on differences between natives and an immigrant duringFortsätt läsa “Immigrants as permanent residents – natives as non-residents”

An immigrant with proper knowledge of grammar

Posted on by Katarina Elevant

This blog post actually treats two topics. The first one evolves around identity and the difference between private and personal. The second topic is about digital literacy, which I compare to being fluent within a language and knowing its grammar. Anyway, it turns out the two topics are related in such a way that writing […]

Build your own document camera

Posted on by Jörg Pareigis

Many teachers are forced to switch to teaching online these days. Many are also working from home. In this scenario many educators are producing educational videos and sometimes you want to be able to show a drawing, an equation or something else which is not easy to produce digitally on your computer. A nice little […]

Topic 1 Reflection: Risk of DPOD, anyone?

Posted on by piasun

I checked out Beetham and Sharpe’s (2011) theoretical framework, Jisc. I looked for a definition of digital literacy and found this: “Digital literacy looks beyond functional IT skills to describe a richer set of digital behaviours, practices and identities. What it means to be digitally literate changes over time and across contexts, so digital literaciesContinue reading “Topic 1 Reflection: Risk of DPOD, anyone?”

Reflection

Posted on by piasun

This is a short reflection on our Connecting week in the ONL201 course. I only learned that I would take the course a few days before it actually started, and I am happy to be on board, so to speak. We have had the starting week and then a Connecting week. For me, the firstContinue reading “Reflection”

One reflection on the meaning of “digital literacy” and thinking about “collaborative participation” as a way of learning

Posted on by Katarina Elevant

Finally, after several years of studying collaborative participation while applying theories on communities of practice and situated learning, I ended up as a lab rat myself. I recently joined an online course on Open Networked Learning that, putting it mildly, challenges all conventional ways of thinking about learning. After a couple of days of reflection […]

Starting this blog

Posted on by Katarina Elevant

This blog was first aimed for sharing experiences on teaching in Sweden spanning from lower secondary to higher education. Currently a teacher at Karlstad University in Sweden, I intend to share some experiences picked up on the way to and at Karlstad university, starting with my working experience as a professional meteorologist and manager which […]