Maybe next year

March 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic has shocked the world, and in Sweden, schools are beginning to move from the physical classrooms to digital learning environments. I am told to cancel all physical meetings at work, and to only schedule online teaching with my university students. Keep an open mind, we’re told – find new solutions,… Continue reading Maybe next year

Collaboration and openness in digital learning era

In this blog post I’d like to elaborate a bit more about the role of collaboration and openness , as my reflections from the another topic we discussed at ONL211 experience. After the first weeks of our ONL11 journey, we moved onto the very interesting and important topic that is the role of collaboration and […]

Openness

There are many perspectives of openness, and the concept often relates to connectivity and free access to material when we discuss openness in the virtual space. An open access learning community often gives acessibility to material and knowledge without charge, and there are benefits from learning together in online collaboration. There is also a sense… Continue reading Openness

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Strange Crochet – Our PBL Group

Strange crochet, our PBL Group 10, reminds me of the many complex paths lifelong learning can take – I know an artist group working since 2004 every month on a crochet object: www.haekelobjekt.ch. It is a lifelong art project by Regula Michell and Meret Wandeler, and it tells us about how much time good art […]

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Digital literacy

It is kind of strange sitting here at my farm, in a rural part of Sweden with the digital world in a comfortable reach. In the small village where I live, we decided to get a common internet, which created unimaginable opportunities in today’s remote world. Here I am, in contact with different people, in

My thoughts on Digital Literacies in Learning

This week of our learning journey has been focused on the role and importance of our learning environment, that during the past year of COVID19 pandemic has moved our classrooms to online surroundings. And I think that the topic is really interesting, especially that everyone has different literacy for digital tools, experiences, needs and opinions […]

Navigating spaces

There is a lot to be said about digital competencies, and what it actually means to be “digitally competent”, if there even is such a thing (who decides who is digitally competent, anyways?). We live in an ever-changing society, where we have to constantly adapt to new technology, new tools, and new ways of thinking,… Continue reading Navigating spaces