Digital Literacies and Learning Design

Session 1 – An introduction to Digital Literacies and Learning Design

Introduction to the Module

- Ice breaker – Expectations and concerns

Interactive presentation: Digital Literacies and Learning Design

Discussion: Digital Natives and Digital residents

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Setting up reflective blogs on wordpress

Setting up twitter #DLLD14

Join Google+ community

Read White, D. S., & Cornu, A. L. (2011). Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online

engagement. First Monday, 16(9). Retrieved from

http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3171

Comment on Digital nativism and online youth: separating fact from fiction

Online tasks:

- Blog about your teaching philosophy (with technology)

- Read Building the Curriculum 4: Skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work

Session 2: Designing learning contexts for the digital literate learner

Discussion: Creating content or providing context?

- Learning and Teaching on the web (Digital Literacies and the Curriculum for Excellence)

- Focus on the Participatory culture of the web

- Pedagogical approaches (and how to embed the critical digital literacies)

- Learning outcomes (Bloom's taxonomy revised)

- Assessment strategies

- The importance of being part of it / “buying into it” – as learner and teacher

Interactive presentation: Designing learning contexts: the learner-centred approach

Watch: From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-Able

Read: Wallace, C. S., & Priestley, M. (2011). Teacher beliefs and the mediation of curriculum innovation in Scotland: A socio‐cultural perspective on professional development and change. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 43(3), 357–381. Comment on Realising the promise of digital technologies in learning and teaching

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Workshop (or webquest): Critical Digital Literacies 5 resource Model & the 4 Capacities

Online tasks:

- blog about:

o your experience with the web

o the importance of aligning pedagogical approaches to learning outcomes and

assessment strategies

o your reflections about the class discussions

Session 3: Designing learning contexts for the digital literate learner

(cont.)

Discussion: Can we combine digital literacies and Learning design?

How?

What are the challenges?

What does it mean to the Curriculum for Excellence

Sharing: Designing learning contexts: different activities and resources

- Open Educational Resources (OERs)

- Webquests

- Inquiry / project based learning

- Games based learning

- Storytelling

- e-Portfolios

- Etc.

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Read: Conole, G. (2013). Open, Social and Participatory Media. In Designing for learning in an open

world. New York, NY: Springer.

Comment: blogpost to be announced

Students start planning their learning design project

Online tasks:

- blog about your reflections about the class discussion

Session 4 - Digital Literacies: a response to the challenges of the web?

Discussion: Designing for learning: embedding technology – what challenges?

- Ethics

- Cyberbullyng

- Netiquette

- Privacy and safety

- Copyright

- Mindsets

- Etc

Interactive presentation: The challenges and possibilities of the web

Read: Digital Literacies across the Curriculum

Comment: blogpost to be announced

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Students work on their projects

Online tasks:

- blog about your project plan

Session 5 - Designing for learning: Student projects

Students work on their projects

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Presentation and discussion of Students’ projects

Session 6

Final reflection and next steps

What digital literacies do teachers need?

How can teachers keep up to date with the developments of the web and the demands of

the profession?