Digital Literacy and Professional DevelopmentA CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA PERSPECTIVE IN #HEIE

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2Observations for Ireland’s Teaching & Learning Forum

Please Tweet Your Thoughts #heie

@topgold on Twitter +BernieGoldbach on G+

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Manage Your Info

Vet Trusted sources.

Follow clever influencers.

Establish a routine.

Try Evernote.

Synch across devices.

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Asking Evernote.

Manage Events

#edchatie on Mondays

#ictedu in early May

#ilta14 in late May

#excited2014 in late May

#elss2014 in late June

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Mindmap in Evernote.

Literacy as Process

Continuous Professional Development

Lifelong Learning

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You need to manage screens

One foot away Three feet away Ten feet away

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One Foot Away

Your closest digital touchpoint is handheld.

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Three Feet Away

Refine your collaboration as you prepare and improve classroom presentations.

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Ten Feet Away

You grab content from big screens. Sometimes the bottom third of those screens have contextual value.

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Digital Divide Separates EducatorsPROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORKS BRIDGE DIVIDES.

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The Lifelong Learning Imperative Learn to share. Sharing is a social skill.

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Literacy is more than reading and writing.YOU MUST HUNT, GATHER, CURATE AND SHARE.

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“New Literacy”IT IS NOT A TRUE IMPERATIVE IN MANY PLANNING DOCUMENTS.

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New Literacy in Classrooms

• Research skills

• Publishing skills

• ePortfolios

• Rich Media Production

• Responsive Content

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New Literacy Workflows

• Productive processes

• Scrumwise

• Collaboration

• Mobile conferences

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Learning to Learn

• Teach students how to stay relevant.

• Flexible learning through routines.

• Collabortive dimension.

• Self-directed process.

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Life in the BYOD World

• Embraces mainstream technology that was not available five years ago.

• “Please stop blocking” our smart screens.

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To be truly educatedCONNECT AND COLLABORATE

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Promising Digital Landscape AheadPew Research, March 2014, Digital Life in 2025

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Connect and Collaborate

Monday evenings using #edchatie on Twitter

10 May at #ictedu in LIT-Thurles

29 May at #ilta in UCD

30 May at #excited2014 in Dublin Castle

23-27 June at #elss14 in DIT

Online by sharing your curated content

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