EDUCATORS’ DIGITAL LITERACIES: THE ROLE OF PEDAGOGICAL DESIGN IN INNOVATION
F. Dujardin, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Knowledge society
Higher Education
• Digital literacies
• Networked self
• Standards• Relevance
MA professional communication
• Quality in teaching• Innovation
Designing for multiple contexts
Pedagogical design – Collective blogging as case study
Outline
Three key concepts: Blogging Metaphor of learning Academic literacies
‘New’ methodological approach – ethnographic action research
Discussion points Widening the communicative ecology Planning socio-cultural animation Implication for educators’ digital literacies
Why focus on blogging?
Paradigmatic technology
Knowledge sharing tool
Personal or collective?
Powerful metaphors
personal space privacy difficult to share
and to assess
blog as ‘open’ space public community
“active sociality” (Lankshear and Knobel 2006)
assessment?
‘Diary’ ‘Participation’
Trialogical approach to ‘knowledge creation’ – self, community, outputs
‘Academic literacies’
Part of the New Literacies movement looking beyond established literacies power relations and expectations
Self-awareness – educators as “recontextualisation agents” (Coleman 2012) in the use of ICT ‘authentic’ use of ICT or normalisation? enculturation into a dominant order of high
tech and global capitalism (Tusting 2008) or encouraging critical confidence (Goodfellow and
Lea 2007) ?
Ethnographic action research
Social mapping
Socio-cultural
animation
Communicative
ecologyReflexivity
Widening the communicative ecology
1. Routine stage – using the VLE and observing students’ reactions
2. Refinement stage – introducing blogs within the VLE
3. Integration stage – using a private collective blog set up in WordPress, while keeping the VLE for module information and submissions
Socio-cultural animation
Scaffolding ‘new’ practices in knowledge creation enabling mature learners to
become ‘digital residents’ managing understandings of
educational practices Authentic use of blog for
meaning-making Mediating more than
disciplinary knowlege
Conclusion: new roles for educators
Catalyst Curator
Mediator
Thank you for listening
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