Posts Tagged ‘literacy’
1:1 and surface computing
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 9, 2009
What would I learn without RSS? Very little! RSS is one of my personal PD (professional development) tools and with it I learn or get something reinforced every day!
One blog I follow is Chris Dawson’s. He recently asked how important is 1:1 to literacy? He doesn’t have all the answers (no one does), but he [...]
21st Century Literacies
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 14, 2009
There has been a small flurry of bloggers writing about 21 century literacies or skills. This is important to me as I am part of a small group of researchers that wants to know if the 1:1 computing scheme in NIE has a role to play in promoting or even enabling these skills or literacies.
Howard [...]
Reading on the bus
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 30, 2009
Last Friday I observed two gents reading on the bus as they travelled to campus. Both were plugged in to their media players in an effort to drown out the commute. But they could not have been reading more differently.
On the right was a older man who might have been a colleague at NTU. He [...]
Animal Crossing and literacy
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 8, 2009
Chris Dawson blogged about how a Wii game, Animal Crossing, might promote basic literacy.
[Link to Animal Crossing website]
Using his children as examples, he shared how his 6-year-old wanted to read more as a result of playing this game. I can relate to that because I play games on the Wii with my son and he [...]
Who’s number 2?
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 18, 2008
Google is the undisputed #1 search engine. Who is #2? According to one report, the #2 search engine is YouTube!
The neutral observer might point out that Google owns YouTube. Statisticians will can move the numbers about as much as they want. But I think there is an underlying phenomenon at work.
If it is true that [...]
Do you know how to “read”?
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 14, 2008
I follow Michael Ree’s twitters. Every now and then he will point to something in his blog.
I found one of his latest blog entries, “Teaching Professors How to Read”, amusing and revealing. I’d argue that some teachers nowadays need to learn how to “read” too!
Addendum (15 Aug 08): The blog entry concludes with (and reinforces) [...]
Technology illiteracy is a sin?
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 31, 2008
What does it take to win Edublog awards for the “most influential post” or the “best group blog” in 2007? Here are two examples.
I found Terry Freedman, who wrote in his Techlearning blog:
“All educators must achieve a basic level of technological capability.”
“People who do not meet the criterion of #1 should be embarrassed, not proud, [...]
