“Information for teachers on inquiry and digial literacy”
Curated by
Shawn Hinger
’ve been investigating ways to curate conversations that take place on the web, via social media and in other places. I’m doing so at this point mainly to be able to display some of the great conversations that happened in the two New Media Studies first year seminars (#nmsf09 and #nms_f10) where I was the Twitter-embedded librarian. So far I’ve been looking at Storify.com (where I have put my name in for an invite), Memolane.com, and Curated.by, which I have signed up for and begun to play around with. Via Buffy J. Hamilton 
STATE COLLEGE, PA - In my keynote address at the inaugural Liberal Arts Scholarship and Technology Summit, I discuss how the transition from print literacy to digital literacy is transforming the nature of academic scholarship. 
Digital Literacy Webinar. Vicki “Cool Cat Teacher” Davis presents Differentiated Instruction with Technology, to help you teach students to drive their own success. via intel.com. Be sure to check out the Education Help ... 
For our culminating project, we will be compiling a page on the intersavvy wiki about digital literacy on the secondary level. As members of a three year team, we found that our interests lie in many different places. 
In this post, I feature one of my favorite visual literacy resources, Image Detective, and share an example from Isabel Bauerlein demonstrating how the Image Detective scaffolded inquiry process can be extended in the classroom. 
Students have to progress beyond being literate about information, and even beyond being able to use information fluently, to being capable of inquiry that generates new understandings. The digital environment presents ... Our cohorts video on how language, literacy, and inquiry affect the social studies classroom, and different strategies that help with those three key educational ideals. 
The digital world, much like any new or changing environment, demands an assessment of the situation and development of new ways of thinking or working. |
Children and youth Literacy 2.0 research and literature. From across the world, thinking and doing by children, youth and grownups who care about their future in the 21st century. 
Information technology, especially the Internet, has become so integral to the workings of modern day life, that I think it's necessary that we fully integrate digital literacy into our educational institutions. 
A Cheat Sheet to Help Schools Foster CreativitySmithsonian (blog)Education has always been a laggard to innovation. That reality is made clear in a new book about attention and the brain, Now You See It, by Cathy Davidson. 
... several ALA committees, offices, and divisions – prompted the advisory committee to authorize further inquiry into how ALA could leverage and expand the wealth of knowledge and experience related to information and digital literacy. 
Because of this, critical literacy and digital inquiry cannot afford to be seen as 'school related' only, they must become synonymous with operating in a digital environment, rather than with processes and activities associated with ... 
A blog dedicated to information literacy. Sunday, May 8, 2011. Sustaining the Inquiry Cycle: Digital Literacy Reframed. Digital literacy in primary school site presentation 2010 ... 1 day ago; Really interesting article on inquiry process, linking to digital literacy process http://t.co/2CaD5P9 must read for tchrs and librarians 1 day ago · http://t.co/peI1999 aimed at teachers, but how could ... |
