Digital Literacy Dover

Saturday, 6 October 2018

To Skill or not to Skill?

Anonymous Saturday, October 06, 2018 5

Teaching ICT skills ... Pickering (2007), found that a focus on skills and fixed knowledge to be acquired was criticised by the teac...

Wednesday, 3 October 2018

Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets Made Simple on an iPad

Anonymous Wednesday, October 03, 2018 0

As part of our commitment to ensuring a broad and balanced range of ICT skills that facilitate true digital literacy, we introducing our chi...

Monday, 1 October 2018

teamie

Super easy PDF commenting for better collaborative reading and comprehension

Andrew McCarthy Monday, October 01, 2018 0

In recent years lots of teachers would have spotted students developing the habit and tendency to skim read online and the shallow compre...

Saturday, 15 September 2018

YouTube

EdPuzzle: video questions for formative assessment

Andrew McCarthy Saturday, September 15, 2018 0

Like all teachers, we see our face-to-face time with my classes as incredibly valuable and precious. I want to spend as much of this time a...

Sunday, 2 September 2018

notetaking

Notetaking with Evernote

Andrew McCarthy Sunday, September 02, 2018 0

Evernote is a great application for writing and collating notes and now it looks even better. Over the last month Evernote has had a refr...

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

self manager

The Fundamental Four!

Anonymous Tuesday, June 19, 2018 1

The Fundamental 4 The Essential Tech Slide Deck: bit.ly/uwctechdeck There are lots of aspects to digital organisation, but t...

Monday, 18 June 2018

Writer's Workshop

Poetry - Made Multimodal!

Anonymous Monday, June 18, 2018 0

This incredible, beautiful example inspired me to approach our English teachers to consider making their work with poetry multimodal; s...

Saturday, 2 June 2018

Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets for Everyone

Anonymous Saturday, June 02, 2018 0

Spreadsheets rock my world. Spreadsheets are, at least in my experience, probably the least appreciated of the five core domains of ...

Saturday, 14 April 2018

skills

PDFs, Pragmatism & WWPP

Anonymous Saturday, April 14, 2018 0

WWPP, a pragmatic compromise: WP, WWW, PPT & PDFs If there is one thing I've learned in my now almost a decade as a digital ...

skills

Digital Illiteracy & Vitamin D

Anonymous Saturday, April 14, 2018 0

Vitamin D (VITAD) Five Essential Domains: VITAD: video, image, text, audio, data - 'Vitamin D' Just like all subject domai...

Thursday, 29 March 2018

SAMMS

Digital Disorganisation & Parenting: Part 2

Anonymous Thursday, March 29, 2018 0

Digital Organisation Essentials As explained in Part 1 , parents generally struggle to model effective practices when it comes to ...

Thursday, 22 March 2018

parents

Digital Disorganisation & Parenting: Part 1

Anonymous Thursday, March 22, 2018 0

Messy bedroom via zmeed.info What does a messy bedroom got to do with digital organisation? And well might you wonder, well, more than ...

Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Writing

The 10 Commandments of Word Processing

Anonymous Wednesday, January 24, 2018 0

This has to be one of the most commonly used ICT skills, even be the most tech reluctant, but unfortunately as most of us are self taught,...

Monday, 22 January 2018

parents

Growing up in a Distracted World - parent workshop slides

Andrew McCarthy Monday, January 22, 2018 0

Following on from a popular parent workshop earlier this week we are sharing the slides and associated resources for you to explore at you...

Wednesday, 10 January 2018