Web Literacy Revisited

How do modern students study, and how good are they at it? That’s the question posed by the emerging topic of digital literacy. Last week I attended the Shock of the Old event in Oxford that addressed this question. The topic of digital literacy is particular interesting to me because for the past year or […]

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Nativism vs. Literacy

I have read a number of pieces recently attacking the notion of the Digital Native – Prensky’s notion that there is a new generation of students who are in some way soaked in technology to the extent that it has changed their behaviour. Stephen Marshall suggests that the concept of the Digital Native is reaching its […]

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The New Web Literacy

I’ve just given a seminar to my research group (The Learning Societies Lab) on the notion of the New Web Literacy, how e-learning systems should change to support it, and what we should be doing as e-learning researchers to enact and understand that change. I have wanted to present something on this topic ever since […]

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