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TED Talk from the founder of Infogram about the importance of visualising data

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The age of data literacy | Uldis Leiterts | TEDxRiga

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. How does our brain process stories and does it like data? What about the combination of both? Uldis Leiterts elaborates on the question of bringing the information - and the stories to the people while capturing their attention on content with the help of infographics.

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6 Elements

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Building capability for new digital leadership, pedagogy and efficiency

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Jisc digital capability codesign challenge blog

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New guide: Developing organisational approaches to digital capability If you have read recent posts on this blog by Helen Beetham and Sarah Knight you will be aware that Jisc has recently released a collection of new resources designed to support you to develop digital capabilities in your organisation.

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Internet Mapping Project

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A framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills.

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Mapping digital skills and knowledge
for staff and students
in Irish Higher Education

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Welcome to All Aboard! Are you keen to improve your digital knowledge, skills or confidence? If so, we'd love to help. All Aboard is a national project that aims to empower learners, teachers, and anyone who uses technology to support their work, their study, or other aspects of living in a digital age.

We have:

developed a simple, fun (we hope!) way of thinking about digital skills (in the form of a Metro Map)

produced and shared lessons and learning materials that anyone can access online

promoted the use of 'digital badges' across a range of applications including, of course, digital skills

worked in partnership with many organisations and groups, including supporting student engagement projects

championed a focus on confidence, empowerment, identity, and wellbeing.

Interested? Then read on and start your digital journey!

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Welcome to All Aboard! Are you keen to improve your digital knowledge, skills or confidence? If so, we'd love to help. All Aboard is a national project that aims to empower learners, teachers, and anyone who uses technology to support their work, their study, or other aspects of living in a digital age.

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JISC Resource: Developing Digital Literacies

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JISC Resource: Developing Digital Literacies

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Guide

Provides ideas and resources to inspire the strategic development of digital literacies - those capabilities which support living, learning and working in a digital society

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We're a membership organisation, providing digital solutions for UK education and research.

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Presentation for the British Council with a particular focus for ELT

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The United Kingdom´s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland) Our privacy and copyright statements. Our Freedom of Information Publications Scheme. © British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London SW1A 2BN, UK.

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The United Kingdom´s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland) Our privacy and copyright statements. Our Freedom of Information Publications Scheme. © British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London SW1A 2BN, UK.

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Building study skills site

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Article on the story behind the Meme

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@antastico @ChrisGunness @AlastairMorgan Would you say that exact same thing if they were looking in books?
- Rabble Rabble (@ReaverBait) January 16, 2016

Twitter users have once again been sharing the image [believed to have been taken in 2014] online, sparking a debate about what the children were actually doing.

So is the photo a perfect 'metaphor for our age' or is there something else going on in the photo?

Many Twitter viewers have argued that the children could have simply been researching the painting on their mobile phones.

So what's the real story?

It turns out the children were actually researching a school assignment when the photo was taken.

Photographer Gijsbert van der Wal explained: "A small group of high school students were sitting on the benches in front of Rembrandt's Nightwatch. Almost all of them were either looking at their own smartphones or their classmates'. I thought it was a curious sight and took a photograph.

"That same evening, I posted the photo on Facebook where, to my utter surprise, within a few days it was shared almost 9,500 times. The image was also reposted by others and shared on Twitter, Tumblr and Reddit. It went viral, with people often adding rather dispirited captions: today's youth is more interested in Whatsapp than they are in Rembrandt.

"On the other hand there were people who warned not to be misled by the image: they asserted that the students were in fact attentive to the art works, using the museum's freely downloadable multimedia tour. That seems a plausible explanation. However, I think a well-designed museum app should continuously direct the attention of the user from the phone to the actual objects on display.

"The children in the photograph didn't look up, they just kept staring at their phones. Frans Banning Cocq, the prominent nightwatcher in the background, seemed equally perplexed by it."

A separate photo of another group of children engrossed by another painting has also been shared in response.

@AggieHH @HarriettSG @AggieHH " pic.twitter.com/OL0rQ6eW0D " fyi: the kids used the iphones as part of the tour of the museum. Special app.
- Lammie Oostenbrink (@Iittlelamb) December 7, 2014

@Iittlelamb @HarriettSG @AggieHH whew. That first photo was distressing?.this is lovely :)
- Anne Margaret Daniel (@venetianblonde) December 7, 2014

It was posted by literary translator Lammie Oostenbrink who explained: "There's another picture of the same group of kids, totally mesmerised by one of his portraits.

"The kids used the iPhones as part of the tour of the museum. Special app... The interpretation of the photo was just wrong. I tried to correct it."

Rembrandt's Night Watch helps attract millions of tourist to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam every year. This epic canvas has been a national icon since the 19th century.

Rembrandt died in 1669 and was buried in an unmarked grave in the Westerkerk church. Learn more about the Dutch master's most famous painting here.

Meanwhile, here's the real story behind this incredible New Year's Eve 'Manchester masterpiece' photo.

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rembrandt the night watch children on phones

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The real story behind a viral Rembrandt 'kids on phones' photo

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@antastico @ChrisGunness @AlastairMorgan Would you say that exact same thing if they were looking in books?- Rabble Rabble (@ReaverBait) January 16, 2016 Twitter users have once again been sharing the image [believed to have been taken in 2014] online, sparking a debate about what the children were actually doing.

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Using digital literacy and social media to build a PLN

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Using digital literacy and social media to build a PLN

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This is a paperslide video I created for a graduate class that details how I have started to use Rheingold's five digital literacies and select social media tools to begin building an online professional learning network.

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Interview about how the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills

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Howard Rheingold isn't too concerned about whether Google is making us stupid or if Facebook is making us lonely. Those kind of criticisms, Rheingold says, miscalculate the ability humans have to change their behavior, particularly when it comes to how we use social media and the Internet more broadly.

"If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool," Rheingold said Thursday.

Rheingold was visiting the MIT Media Lab to talk about his new book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, which examines how people can use the Internet not just to better themselves, but also society as a whole. Rheingold has a longer online history than most, going back to The WELL, one of the first online forums back in the 1980s. Ever since writing about that experience, Rheingold has developed a habit for dropping the kind of book that not just probes what it means to be online, but charts what that means for all of us.

Net Smart is a book for an era where we've moved past just creating online identities and communities, but still have to educate ourselves on how to operate in day-to-day life. Rheingold said he believes a better understanding and deeper use of things like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are "essential survival skills" that will last beyond today or the lifespan of those individual companies.

The fact that those companies have grown so large so quickly has led to as much speculation about their financial futures as their impact on our attention span and privacy. But Rheingold says the analysis often focuses on the potential damages of these new platforms rather than their benefits. "Knowing that something is broken, or that there are costs to it we had not thought of when we first started using it, is not enough to tell you what to do or how to fix it," he said.

Instead, Rheingold wants to focus on how we use these tools and how users can become more mindful and literate. Net Smart offers up a set of five literacies Rheingold sees as important: attention, participation, collaboration, "crap detection," and network smarts. As we've become more sophisticated in the ways we use the web, we need to adjust how we use it, being able to tell fact from rumor and able to call on the skills and resources of a community to help answer our questions.

What distinguishes Rheingold's work here is the attention to, well, attention. He's talking about metacognition, or making ourselves more aware of what we're doing online. We often divide our attention online, but at any given moment make "micro decisions" about what we're going to do - write emails for work, watch a YouTube video, get lost in Twitter. Rheingold says we have to connect our attention to our intention and be more aware of how what we're actively doing relates (or often doesn't) to what we need. That helps when you're looking for a restaurant recommendation, but also when you want to find accurate information about a court verdict.

"Finding the best stuff and sharing what we found is one way of improving ourselves, but also improving the commons," he said.

In that way, attention connects with participation and collaboration. The act of sharing not only builds intelligence but shows good faith in a community. It also has a reinforcing quality; once you go from being a passive part of a community to liking, retweeting, and curating, you increase your activity as well as your value. The act of transforming information into knowledge and making it usable to people will always have value, no matter what platforms exist, Rheingold said.

"The proliferation of media has not stopped - if anything it has gone into hyperdrive," he said. "If you want to keep up with anything, it's not about keeping up with technologies, it's about keeping up with literacies."
Photo of Rheingold by MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito used under a Creative Commons license.

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Howard Rheingold on how the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills

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Howard Rheingold isn't too concerned about whether Google is making us stupid or if Facebook is making us lonely. Those kind of criticisms, Rheingold says, miscalculate the ability humans have to change their behavior, particularly when it comes to how we use social media and the Internet more broadly.

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The essential elements of digital literacies:

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Doug Belshaw at TEDxWarwick

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The essential elements of digital literacies: Doug Belshaw at TEDxWarwick

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Conference Paper by Mike Neary and Joss Winn

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Calls for genuine partnership

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Powerpoint by Dr Fiona Handley, CLT from Blended Learning Seminars at Brighton University.

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Blended learning students as researchers march 2015

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Society of College, National and University Libraries

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Proposal so far

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This is one of the seminars I attended at University of Brighton. It is a 'Storify' file, documenting the interaction of participants.

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Blended Learning: developing students as researchers (with images, tweets) · jason_lta

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This session looks at developing students as researchers by considering how Healey's 'Student as Scholar' model can be extended into the digital age. During the session you will explore issues such as digital identity and co-creation of content and consider how to apply them in your own teaching.

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Dear Colleagues, this is a 'padlet' onto which you can write notes or add resources which may be helpful to others researching Digital research and scholarship…

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Double click on background and type into panel -or add a link, file or picture.