General forums
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| The Syllabus | Wait! Wait! This doesn't look like a typical syllabus. Exactly.  Welcome to Digital Literacy and Pedagogy, 2023!If I'd been asked to teach this course in 2019, I would have probably planned to devote a lot of time to how to make short instructional videos, control volume and ... |
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| Announcements | This is where you'll find any announcements about the course. The messages posted here will automatically go to your AUCA emails as well. |
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| The Syllabus | Wait! Wait! This doesn't look like a typical syllabus. Exactly.  Welcome to Digital Literacy and Pedagogy, 2023!If I'd been asked to teach this course in 2019, I would have probably planned to devote a lot of time to how to make short instructional videos, control volume and ... |
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| Announcements | This is where you'll find any announcements about the course. The messages posted here will automatically go to your AUCA emails as well. |
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| The Syllabus | Wait! Wait! This doesn't look like a typical syllabus. Exactly.  Welcome to Digital Literacy and Pedagogy, 2023!If I'd been asked to teach this course in 2019, I would have probably planned to devote a lot of time to how to make short instructional videos, control volume and ... |
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| Announcements | This is where you'll find any announcements about the course. The messages posted here will automatically go to your AUCA emails as well. |
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| Announcements | General news and announcements |
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| Questions, problems, or comments | Please use this forum to post any questions, problems, or comments. |
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Learning forums
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| 1. Ready, Player One? | *Gather your tools | As you go through the course, you'll need to use the following technologies. Take some time as you begin to
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| *Present yourself casually | A lot of people don't like being in front of groups. They probably shouldn't be teachers. A lot of people don't like making videos of themselves. They probably shouldn't be digital teachers. Sure, it's possible to use digital tools for teaching and never make a video of yourself, but it's becoming... |
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| *Create some data | This introductory survey will take about 15 minutes. It has some unusual questions, but they're for a purpose, and we'll discuss them later in the course. :) Your answers are completely anonymous, so there's no way for us to know for sure that you completed the assignment. So, even though we ... |
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| *Present yourself professionally | Several years ago, it occurred to me that I have lived in Central Asia longer than, probably, anyone else of Welsh ancestry in the history of the world. Hmm. That makes me a very unusual type of expert. A similar logic applies to you: You have now studied in online graduate education longer than ... |
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| *Collaborate asynchronously | Okay, you're going strong! Let's see how well we can do on this collaborative asynchronous task. How long do you think it would take to create a digital map that shows the global spread of our families for two generations? The map would need show political markers (city names, borders) and ... |
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| *Test Your Tools |  Your last task for Module 1, the last step to prepare you, Player One, is to learn how to evaluate some edtech tools and choose which ones you'll specialize in for this course. To to that, you'll need to complete the following task. A. Learn how to use each of the following tools. You can find ... |
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| Class Introduction | Once again, welcome! An important aspect of completing an online class successfully is to feel connected to your instructor and classmates. Research shows that students are more successful when instructors are present (Chronicle, 2020). Here are some ways to be present:
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| 2. Look at me! I am the researcher now. | *Leading asynchronous online discussions | This module will give you an opportunity to ...
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| *Community | One of the biggest differences you've probably noticed in your own online learning has to do with the issue of social presence. Social presence is, basically, convincing others in your online learnng community that you're a real person. Without it, collaboration doesn't go so well. Take a few ... |
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| *Time | Almost 100% of the students I've worked with in my career have thought that online learning would save them time compared to face-to-face learning. How does that really work, though? Listen in while my buddies, Tory Temple (California) and Jon Crocker (Alaska) join me (Bishkek) in discussing some... |
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| *Goals | We're approaching the face-to-face time and wrappping up some of your other courses, so I'd like to you take a little time to reflect on the question, "Why are we doing all this?" What are the goals of digital pedagogy?
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| 3. No. That's not how you learn kung fu. | *How can we predict which tools will work best? | When I was in graduate school in the early 1990s, there were theories about how problem solving and communication help people learn, but there was little real science to explain why. Today, advances in cognitive science, neuroscience, linguistics, sociology, and computer science have shown ... |
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| 4. "intelligence having fun" | *Designing for Learning | One of my long-term best friends, Tom Eickhoff, is a designer. Let me rephrase. He is a world-famous designer whose works appear in almost 100 books about the best interior designs. His most recent project include the owner of some major American sports teams, and a prince in the Arab Peninsula. ... |
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| 5. Y'all ready for this? | 2/27 The Product | The time has come.
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| 3/3 The PRIZE | You know by now that the key to online distane learning is keeping learners engaged. You can't give grades based on attendance or behaior or memorizatiion. (All of those can be hacked by bots.) But you can get points for personal interaction, and creative applications. This is your last post of ... |
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