Digital

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First let us look into digital literacy.

'MyWorld': Digital literacy tutorial for secondary students This tutorial aims to teach students essential digital literacy skills through simulating their favorite online experiences. The tutorial is divided into four chapters, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of digital literacy: researching and authenticating online information, managing privacy and reputation, dealing with online relationships and using digital media in an ethical manner. (Available through a licensing arrangement. For information on how to obtain a licence see the Resource Catalogue.)

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Many areas in teaching with inclusion need support. One of these areas being addressed in the media right now is inclusive digital technology. Here is a link for getting support; []

iMedia-Source supports engaged teaching and learning with a 21st century library of multimedia resources. In a one-stop search, single log-on catalog, over 100,000 digital streaming videos, digitized audio, still images, applications for interactive whiteboard, copyright-compliant music, and over 5,000 DVDs are available for grades K to 12. We continually update our collection and offer free teacher training, personalized research, and student access. Members of our non-profit consortium of schools take advantage of these services at a fraction of the market cost.

‘One’s destination is never a place, but new ways of looking at things’ Henry Miller



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Visual language is one area we must consider for inclusion to be explored in digital technology for students outlet for expression.


 * Students could use this software to visually demonstrate their understanding of different inclusions possible for schools today, a comic which addresses inclusive challenges.

• It appears that ICT is currently being used as a tool for teaching rather than a tool for learning.

• Teachers need to change their pedagogy and allow students to creatively explore the possibilities of technology in the classroom, then the full potential of this technology will be realised.


 * Mobile phones, computers and iPads are cool.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Colourful graphic screens, sound, create an interactive experience


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">We need to capture students creative imagination


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">These tools will provide learners with more freedom to construct their own knowledge.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">• The potential of technology in the hands of inquistitive children was demonstrated in a study by Sugata Mitra (2010) into self-organising systems of learning.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">He provided poor rural children in India with unsupervised access to a computer with internet-based instructional material. The children organised themselves into self-learning groups and without any supervision or instruction they achieved the same levels as their peers in a nearby state government school.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">• This demonstrates that with the use of ICT, students working in groups can construct their own knowledge and are likely to develop greater conceptual understanding.

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•<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> ICT is much more than a tool to enhance the teacher’s presentation. It can be used by the teacher to develop clarity and offer students a visual medium for learning.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">• But more importantly, the technology in the hands of students with the freedom to explore, it can allow the learner to construct knowledge, demonstrate ideas and communicate concepts in ways that the teacher never imaged.


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=<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Here is a short (12min) cartoon: The economy strategy with Sir Ken Robinson. =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Inclusion is evolving with the digital applications also. From a cloud high in the sky, we are hosting all over the world. When my grandmother wanted to tell about her travels in Africa she did it with a 'Polaroid', and then advanced to a hand held VCR cam cord we all watched recordings from at christmas... <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">NOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">iphone, ipad, mobile recorders can be a touch on a screen away. We are in the 21ST CENTUARY and Digital has started to pave a way steadily forward in communication.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">In under five weeks I will be Skyping 'home' from Europe and our daughter will blogging to her school mates. We will take still and moving images for her final 'doc' she is making into a movie, (p.c. movie maker), then placing in vimeo to upload from, or maybe straight to youtube.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The beauty about Digital INCLUSION is the communication, research, understanding, empathy and approaches students can access.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The best place to visit for digital software applications and resources is 'Box of tricks a-z <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">BOX OF TRICKS:

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Latest update 14th February 2012 - These are some of the best free internet resources for education. This page is constantly updated; every time I come across a new piece of software or an exciting website, I list it here. You might also want to take a look at my Diigo account for more links. This list is not exhaustive in any way. In fact, if you think there is a tool or application for use in education that should be added to this list, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and suggest it!

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===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">This area can be so stimulating with symbols, colours, words and graphical armament, which may bring confusion and bring ciaos to an experience. When students can identify areas in media literacy like; who is the target market and why? What does 'this' mean to me and my learning? Students must be guided carefully into this area and supported to question the many areas that media suggests. Both students and teachers must look at visual media so more analytically to grasp what is real and what is not (Selwyn, 2009)! A ‘media "diet”; as Jane Tallim suggests, is filling us up with various ideas and concepts which can ‘consume’ from of ‘discard’, so selecting the right ingredient is crucial for each type of student to enrich learning. Not one fits all! As long as kids don’t believe in all what ‘Wiki’ serves, and continues to be highlighted with Maureen Baron clearly outlining; ‘literate individuals must possess media literacy as well as print literacy, numeral literacy and technological literacy’. ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The 21st Century learner needs to be equip for all of these areas to enrich further inclusion of digital learning.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">We learn more every day within the classroom, from the many diverse students (Beers, 2003). Teachers must build on the already rich prior knowledge students have in digital learning and use, The students today have been called 'natives' in this culture of digital technologies and very literate media enhanced students in today’s world. The main focus is to support the learning strategies and confidence, so they can take power and control over their own understanding of the many areas being challenged and stimulated by media literacy. =====

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Students can create with visual language using digital technology.
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Wiki's are also great ways to incorporate digital learning and for inclusion to be supported with a tool used to support students learning.

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 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Please go to the assessment page for further guidance and resources for inclusive understanding.

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