6 thoughts on “[Topic 1] Digital Literacy, not digital skills”
Interesting survey to include here Mihi and I think it reflects that fact that students are often very traditional in their attitudes to online learning until they learn how to take advantage of the opportunities. They are generally comfortable with traditional teaching and are worried by any changes. This does not mean that we should keep teaching as before but that students need more support to learn how to learn online and above all to collaborate.
There’s a good article on the problems of assuming too much about students’ digital skills – Kirschner, P., & De Bruyckere, P. (2017) The myths of the digital native and the multitasker https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0742051X16306692.
Thank you for the reference, Alastair. I shall read that!
Thanks for including the survey you ran. The results are interesting indeed! I am similarly wondering how my students will react to an increasing tilt towards an online learning environment for the modules that I teach, and in particular how I will have to present myself (or become increasingly “resident”) in an online sphere, in order to encourage my students to reap the most from the online aspects of the module.
Hi, Sonita. Meaningful question! I would invite the students in the discussion for that gradual change of mode, and build a partnership with the students to co-create such online context of learning.
Very interesting thoughts and as a linguist and experienced language teacher (offline and online) I was not surprised by the results. I immediately thought of a good friend of mine who teaches the Korean language and culture degree programmes at Helsinki University, who has rather reluctantly (only because of COVID-19) begun to teach some of her classes online. If you don’t mind, I’d love to have a direct link to your research and send it onto her; I think she’d be very much interested in it.
Thank you, Anya!! Love to get connected with your friend!
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Interesting survey to include here Mihi and I think it reflects that fact that students are often very traditional in their attitudes to online learning until they learn how to take advantage of the opportunities. They are generally comfortable with traditional teaching and are worried by any changes. This does not mean that we should keep teaching as before but that students need more support to learn how to learn online and above all to collaborate.
There’s a good article on the problems of assuming too much about students’ digital skills – Kirschner, P., & De Bruyckere, P. (2017) The myths of the digital native and the multitasker https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0742051X16306692.
Thank you for the reference, Alastair. I shall read that!
Thanks for including the survey you ran. The results are interesting indeed! I am similarly wondering how my students will react to an increasing tilt towards an online learning environment for the modules that I teach, and in particular how I will have to present myself (or become increasingly “resident”) in an online sphere, in order to encourage my students to reap the most from the online aspects of the module.
Hi, Sonita. Meaningful question! I would invite the students in the discussion for that gradual change of mode, and build a partnership with the students to co-create such online context of learning.
Very interesting thoughts and as a linguist and experienced language teacher (offline and online) I was not surprised by the results. I immediately thought of a good friend of mine who teaches the Korean language and culture degree programmes at Helsinki University, who has rather reluctantly (only because of COVID-19) begun to teach some of her classes online. If you don’t mind, I’d love to have a direct link to your research and send it onto her; I think she’d be very much interested in it.
Thank you, Anya!! Love to get connected with your friend!