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Monthly Archives: August 2011
The Growth of Social Media
The Search Engine Journal has an interesting Infographic about the use of social media. It shows a very steep rise in the use of social networking across all age groups from the middle of last decade (the 2000s) to the … Continue reading
The myth of ‘digital native’
Gerald Haigh recently authored a blog post entitled: Open University research explodes myth of ‘digital native’ in which he reviews some ongoing work at the OU on use of digital technologies in distance education. The term ‘digital natives’ comes from … Continue reading
Digital Leisure and Digital Literacy
There is an interesting post on the University of Glamorgan’s Learning Zone blog entitled: “Digital Leisure and Digital Literacy”. It starts as follows: “We often assume that 18-21 year-old students are digital whiz-kids, brilliant at anything to do with computers, … Continue reading
Learn to discern
There is an interesting article in the THES by Frank Webster entitled “Learn to discern” In the article he addresses the idea of computer literacy, and suggests we “lay off the ‘literacy’ metaphor” which in the case of “computer literate” … Continue reading
A nation addicted to smart phones
In case you missed it, OfCom have published a report On how we are using communications in the UK, the sub-title is “A nation addicted to smart phones”.
Me and Digital Literacy
I thought I would follow Pat’s example and introduce myself. So I’m Shirley Williams, I am Professor of Learning Technologies and a National Teaching Fellow. I am equally proud of both of these. I chose the title Professor of Learning … Continue reading
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Introducing myself
The Digitally Ready project is looking at digital literacies across the University of Reading. The term ‘digital literacies’ has many interpretations, with some arguing that the word ‘digital’ should be dropped. It can be seen as covering basic computer skills, … Continue reading
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