Week
5 presented.
In week 5 we looked at: Teaching
for your Learners Future
The
final week of the course looked at preparing learners for work, in particular
by considering digital skills that will be required in the workplace.
A range
of different skills were considered:
- Using Digital Systems – such as search engines, email, calculation tools and presentation tools
- Finding Digital Information – finding, selecting and exchanging information
- Presenting Information – presentation of information in a variety of formats
- Communicating in the Digital Workplace – communicating online, using netiquette, online identity, keeping up-to-date, researching job opportunities, team work and collaboration online, sharing with respect to copyright, ownership and responsibilities
Learning
opportunities based on these skills can be incorporated into teaching. There is
obviously a lot of overlap with the information literacy skills that we concentrate
on in library training.
Jisc
provide some very good documents which discuss digital skills – see Developing
Students’ Digital Literacy
Week 5
re-iterated some of the key elements that blended learning can support:
Flexible
learning, flexible time and place, variable pace of learning, variety of
learning modes, content focus, differentiation of learner needs, educator’s use
of time
Looking
forward suggested reading included a US report Technology
Outlook Two-year Colleges 2013-2018. This presented some likely trends in
the education sector.
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