scholarly journals Beyond Apple Pies, Popsicles and Patriotism: Leveraging Digital Literacy to Unpack Matters of Race, Power, and Privilege

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Crystal Shelby-Caffey
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Digital Terrain ◽  
Literacy Methods ◽  
Do So

It is important for all educators, but especially those working in P-12 systems, to not only be prepared to navigate the digital terrain but to do so while taking a critical stance and encouraging students to critically examine and confront injustice. To that end, this article spotlights the work being done in a literacy methods course for preservice teachers. Consideration is given to efforts to engage preservice teachers in the integration of information communication technologies (ICTs) in ways that develop critical consciousness while promoting social justice and equity.

A qualitative analysis of the digital literacy of arts education teachers in Chinese junior high and high schools

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei Zhao ◽  
Heikki Kynäshlahti ◽  
Sara Sintonen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Arts Teachers ◽  
Study Designs

Information communication technologies and media have challenged traditional education and changed teachers’ thinking. These technologies present unique opportunities for supporting creativity, which is the key aim of learning in arts education. Despite the direct and close link between them and arts education, how to integrate these technologies into traditional education has long challenged government and educational experts. Teachers’ digital literacy has been regarded as an important part of information communication technologies-enabled education. Because an arts education uses more equipment than other types of education, it is more dependent on digital media. Thus, arts teachers’ digital literacy has directly affected their teaching, and has played an increasingly important role in education. This paper, having investigated eight Chinese arts teachers’ digital concepts and utilities in their teaching, explores digital literacy in arts teaching in China from different perspectives. It also offers recommendations for research into arts teachers’ digital literacy and arts education research in China for the future. Overall, this study designs a framework of factors for Chinese arts teachers’ digital literacy.

The eLearning Africa Supporting Transformation trust

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
Do So ◽  
Education In Africa

<p>EAST is a non-profit organisation that aims to make a lasting positive impact on education in Africa.</p><p>We do so by investing in Africa's educators, practitioners and research communities and leveraging the potential that Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) can offer. One of the main efforts of the trust is to support people with - out the financial means to attend eLearning Africa. The annual eLearning Africa conference provides a pan-African network for professionals in the field of technology-supported learning and a platform for people who want to develop future forms of educa - tion in Africa.</p>

scholarly journals УЛОГА И ДОМЕТИ ИНФОРМАЦИОНО-КОМУНИКАЦИОНИХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЈА У ИСТРАЖИВАЊИМА УНИВЕРЗИТЕТСКИХ НАСТАВНИКА У СРБИЈИ

TEME ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 425
Author(s):  
Jasmina Đorđević
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
System Development ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Access To Data

The Strategy for Higher Education System Development in Serbia up to 2020 presupposes a certain level of digital literacy of all participants in education. Knowledge and skills in the area of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) are basic requirements. University teachers (UT) are also expected to develop skills to use ICT for both teaching and scientific research because they are both lecturers and researchers. This research is based on the primary assumption that UT would apply ICT to a greater extent if they were provided with actual possibilities to do so. The aims of this paper are to enable preliminary insight into (1) how UT understand the role of ICT in their research and which aspects of the scope of ICT they are familiar with; and (2) what UT believe could facilitate their scientific research. A survey was conducted with 166 UT in Serbia based on a mixed questionnaire. The data analysis confirmed that UT are familiar with both the role and scope of ICT but they lack the objective possibilities for a broader application of ICT. The respondents clearly stated that access to data bases, referenced journals and other sources, and the application of available programs and solutions, as well as training to use them in a proper way, should be enabled. The general conclusion is that solutions are needed at all levels of the entire education system to provide UT in Serbia with a better environment for both teaching and research based on ICT.

scholarly journals The coronavirus disease COVID-19’s coverage in Ukrainian and European encyclopedias

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
Mykola Zhelezniak ◽  
Oleksandr Ishchenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
The Social ◽  
Safe Behavior ◽  
Internet Environment

Today, humans have the phase of the social organization evolution, in which information, communication technologies, and knowledge are fundamental objects of production, as well as the digital environment is an important space for the development of society. There are problems of people’s digital literacy actualized by the increasing role of the existing and growing in information and knowledge in society from Internet environment. This study illustrates the issue of getting digital literacy using online encyclopedic resources on the case about informing the pandemic of coronavirus disease COVID-19 worldwide in 2019-2020. Based on analysis of the mentioned virological topic articles of the national encyclopedias of Europe (Britannica, Brockhaus, Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, etc.) the conclusion is made that encyclopedic knowledge is inert and during the pandemic, it has a low practical role for the needs of humans in the context of safe behavior and right decisions. However, Wikipedia differs from other national online encyclopedias by offering much more information including that is not commonly found in classical encyclopedias, but is useful to readers.

The use of Information Technology as Tools of Developing Educational Communications for Realizing the Personal Potential of University Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Andrey Ivanovich Shutenko ◽  
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Elena Nikolaevn Shutenko ◽  
Julia Petrovna Derevyanko ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Informational Environment

The article is devoted to the problem of educational communications development as a sphere of implementation of modern information-communication technologies in the higher education system. The purpose of the article is to present the structure and functions of educational communications aimed at the development of personal potential and self-realization of students. Methodology. The study is based on the methodology of personal and communicative-informational approaches in education, psychological-pedagogical provisions on the structure of communication, the leading role of learning activity, didactic principles of building an educational-informational environment. In theoretical terms, the study is based on the idea of the indirect implementation of ICT in education through the development of educational communications. The developing structure of educational communications, including didactic, informational-gnostic, interactive, psychological, attractive-motivational, value-semantic components, is presented. The possibilities of developing personal potential in educational communications are considered. The author’s developmental model of ICT functions is presented, which includes clusters of actual and latent functions aimed at the formation of information-educational space for the development of students’ personal potential. In conclusion, a inference was made about the prospects of the indirect introduction of modern ICT as tools for the development and functioning of various educational communications. At the same time, it is essential that these communications perform psychological and pedagogical tasks and functions.

scholarly journals The intercultural component in an EFL course-book package

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzana Sándorová
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Sociocultural Background

Abstract Along with mastery of the grammar and vocabulary of a given language, contemporary students are also expected to acquire intercultural communicative competence (ICC), i.e., the ability to use the language efficiently with regard to the sociocultural background of the communicative situation. This requirement should also be reflected in FL course-books, which are considered to be fundamental didactic tools in FL education, even in an era of information communication technologies. Therefore, the aim of the present paper is to report the results of the research focused on the investigation of intercultural component in the New Opportunities Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate course-book packages. To validate the findings of the content analysis, as the main research method, the method of triangulation was used, i.e., the results of the course-book package analyses were compared with those of observation and interview analyses. The findings of the research revealed that in the investigated course-book packages only some aspects of the intercultural component could be considered relevant because they were suitably treated.

scholarly journals Citizens without Borders – new media and global accountability measures

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Geiselhart
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Accountability Measures ◽  
Global Indicators

In an environment of globalisation and rapidly expanding deployment of interactive digital communication, this paper takes a complex systems approach to the mapping of large scale global indicators onto electronic flows of information and intent. It argues that democracy is being transformed by online technologies, and that governments which embrace and encourage citizen inputs and monitoring of public information can establish vital groundwork for more effective forms of global governance. Growing awareness of issues that transcend jurisdictions makes such transformations both necessary and increasingly acceptable. The prism for this bird’s eye view is the Australian Government’s evolution in its uses of information communication technologies (ICTs) for citizen engagement.

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