Topic 1 – Week 2

This week was a bit more energetic. In our group, we have started to know each other, and we have found some interesting reading material around digital literacy. Although, up to this point, it has been a bit unclear just what to produce and how. However, today was the last day to work on it, […]

First subject handed in

Today our group finished the work that begun with scenario 1. The scenario described the anxiety a teacher could have as a beginner of online teaching. During our fist meeting we had brainstorming of how we should proceed. We came up a lot of very different ideas and decided to think about how to do […]

Visitor or resident? Native or immigrant? #ONL212 Topic 1

When it comes to labeling our digital competence, White and Le Cornu (2011) propose an alternative to Prensky’s opposition between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants with their labels Visitor and Resident, which is more of a continuum, as opposed to Prensky’s dichotomy. Even after White and Le Cornu (2011) state that Prensky’s opposition has beenFortsätt läsa “Visitor or resident? Native or immigrant? #ONL212 Topic 1”

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Linking Digital Literacies to Bloom´s Taxonomy?

During this first topic I have been intrigued by the Digital literacies development model by Beetham and Sharpe, 2010. After reflecting on my own courses and how the students perceive online education and the different tools and systems that we introduce to students to support teaching and learning activities. I realize that this model might […]

The fallacy of nativeness

Prensky’s (2001) dichotomy of Digital Natives and Immigrants suggests that those born and nurtured in the digital age have an inherent ability to function within and understand this world. Conversely, those individuals not socialised within this world from a young age are never able to achieve complete proficiency in their access to and skill with […]