1: 1 Learning - Where to now?

I will put up more links to DERNSW activities over the coming months. It is all go!

 ... and the ideas from overseas, keep coming too.

1:1 - making the most of it.

Tools and services to use with 1:1 learning

what about wikis

and blogging to enhance digital literacy

Digital Literacy and the Need for Change- A much discussed concept

Getting consensus?

This is a quote presented by Greg Prior Regional Director, Western Sydney in his message to Principals, 16 July 2010

"In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are over our heads".  Fullan 2001

My view:

This is where effective leadership comes in. To use the concepts of Karl Weick in his theory of "loose coupling":

"Tight" on the non-negotiables and "loose" on how subject leaders learn with their staff to implement quality programs and practice.

Our BOS and DET have outlined all these requirements and expectations in current documents.

Good luck with this in your schools ...

PBS Frontline Digital Nation - BBC Virtual Revolution - Lots of Buzz

Both productio have created some global buzz on Twitter. I will collate any follow-up commentary and posts.

BBC production The Virtual Revolution. How 20 years of the web has reshaped our lives.

PBS Frontline digital_nation

Henry Jenkins has written briefly.

Debate Continues: Kaiser Family Foundation Study (2)

Wired Kids, Negligent Parents?

Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8 to 18 year olds - Kaiser Family Foundation (1)

The study, "Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-year-olds," reports that:

Kids pack in nearly 11 hours of media use daily a report for CNET by Larry Magid.

George Siemens has written this:
"Kaiser Family Foundation has a new report available on youth and technology. Overall, it's not a surprising report - basically, if they're awake, they're online. Media consumption increased in almost every domain - web, TV, music, games, etc. Print was down. Two parts of the report were interesting - though mainly for lack of useful information or clear correlation: distinction in media use among whites, African Americans, and Hispanics...as well as a bit of a psychological profile on high media users (basically, they're less happy, have poorer grades, and have more issues)."

From eSchoolNews this post: Technology gives kids constant media access

Plugged In and Tuned Out?

CMCH Weighs in on Kaiser Report of Kids’ Increasing Use of Media

Another post on the same themes. The Young and the Digital references the book: Watkins, S. C. (2009). The Young & The Digital: What the Migration to Social-Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

I'll post other commentary links as I find them.

Children born after 2005. What digital technologies define their lifestyles?

The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s - NYTimes.com:

This article begins with:
"My 2-year-old daughter surprised me recently with two words: “Daddy’s book.” She was holding my Kindle electronic reader.

Here is a child only beginning to talk, revealing that the seeds of the next generation gap have already been planted. She has identified the Kindle as a substitute for words printed on physical pages. I own the device and am still not completely sold on the idea."

Another post referencing this article found via @ypulse
The Julia Allison Effect: Is Social Media Stunting Today's Youth

About teens, The teens who can barely talk - they only have an 800 word vocabulary

My comments:
I printed this article, just to read it at my leisure. Not very green, I know. Action of a bygone, recklessly indulgent, old-fashioned era ...maybe!

Background
I have 6 grandchildren, with 3 born after 2005. I picked that date just to match with the sentiments and timeline of the article. Our children are all GenZ.

Concepts to explore: mass customisation, capacity to effectively use for learning, broadcast me >

... now to a bit more thinking about this topic before I go on ...

Literacies for Learning - Part 2

This is a very roughly cobbled together post to follow my previous compilation post.

Written by Tim, on SansBlogue: Participatory Pedagogy and Cultural Literacy

What are the New Media Literacies
Read the blog, download papers, watch the video.

Visual literacy activity on John Hendron's TechTimes Blog.

Jamie Madson blog belonging to Rockford Middle School absolute focus on digital literacy skill development.

Liz Kolb has written: 21st Century Skills are Educators and Executives aligned

Karl Fisch of the Fischbowl blog wrote Shifting toward new literacy in which he references a Will Richardson post.

Darren Draper wrote Edublogger Etiquette a useful post that gives insights as suggested.

The Great Literacy Debate written by Ryan Bretag references many of the most prominent posts in this global discussion.

New post from Doug Belshaw, referencing the writing of Gunther Kress on literacy:

Dan Willingham writes Teaching Content is Teaching Reading.

This conversation is still evolving in the twitterverse and blogosphere.

Following those referred to my two posts will link you into some current important players in the debate.

Growing old Digital - my latest book title

A Darcy Moore tweet to Julie Lindsay inspired this tiny post:

@Darcy1968 Grown up Digital"-am interested in reply. I think I'll write "Growing Old Digital". That's what many baby boomers have done.

Said to my husband we could write a book about how we have grown old digital. He was not keen. Still, I am hoping that book has not yet been written. Is it nearly 25 years of "digital" for us?

Back to the present, I must get around to reading the Tapscott book: "Grown up Digital".

This was my first post using igoogle. Fabulously simple as always with google tools.