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Dear blog and readers, This blog is dedicated to reflections on the ONL201 course. I acknowledge the fact that you may be human readers or robots using automatic content analysis, you are welcome both! However, as the author I am just a human being and therefore probably also make mistakes. Please, feel free to comment, … Continue reading Reflection on online participation & digital literacies
Hi Everyone!!! My name is Pietro Elia Campana and I am a researcher and teacher at Mälardalen University, Sweden. My research focus mostly on simulation and optimization of energy systems and water food energy nexus. I am also course coordinator for several course on the broad topic of sustainable energy systems. I am here inContinue reading “Introduction”
So I am taking this course on Digital Literacies and Online Participation as part of my pedagogical training towards becoming a Professor in Computer Science. In the course, we are…
Open Networked Learning (ONL) just started and the first topic is about online participation and digital literacies and we already got an excellent introduction to new concepts about digital citizens and the levels of engagements and exposure of someone in an online environment, thus the distinguish between resident and visitor (http://daveowhite.com/vandr/). Prensky, distinguishing individuals thatContinue reading “Topic 1: Online Participation & Digital Literacies”
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 […]
A worried student was the protagonist of the first topic scenario in the online connected learning course I am taking. Were I myself worried? Unsure? Uncomfortable? And was it because of the technology? Or because of working with people I have never met? And not only working, but also having to collaborate and produce aContinue reading “Online learning tools and practices – uncertainty, ambiguity and power”
What I have witnessing right now while taking this course is a digital explosion in the Higher Education. From being used by online teaching lecturers, the closing down of Universities around the world has forced everyone into the digital tools and rooms. More and more are are forced to climb a very steep learning curve in a short period of time to accommodateContinue reading “Digital literacy and creativeness in a crazy world”
The word “digital” is an adjective and means a series of the numbers 1 and 0. In a digital system the value 0 could mean that the system is off or malfunction while number 1 means the opposite, the system is on or fully functional. The corona pandemic reveals now how digital we all are.Continue reading “Digital, literally”
We’re approaching the end the first ONL topic “Online participation & digital literacies” and it’s time to reflect. Let me start with a general note: taking an online course in order to learn about how to effectively teach online is as topical as it can gets in these “corona” times. This pandemic is showing howContinue reading “Am I a resident or visitor?”
The past 3 weeks have went by so fast, and in a blink of an eye we are done with topic 1, wow! It has been a roller coaster with the amount of information we needed to grasp with regards to getting started, preparing for our tasks and being able to attend PBL group meetings. … Continue reading TOPIC 1: Online Participation and Digital Literacy
Topic 1 compleeted! This week have been a crazy week and it seems as the ONL-course have just the perfect timing now with the Corona virus spreading quickly, cancelling almost all campus-lectures. So today’s Picture is from a super light speed voyage s…