Developing Teachers’ Critical Digital Literacies
This resource is a video lecture where the researchers Liisa Ilomäki and Minna Lakkala from the University of Helsinki The length of the video is 9.27 minutes.
The presentation introduces the subject of social media use and well-being. There are questions to be discussed with the students, such as: How do you use social media? Why do you use social media? How often do you comment on posts on social media? What kind of photos or other pictures do you use on social media? The purpose of the presentation is to evoke a student’s thinking about her or his own use of social media
The Critical Digital Literacies framework for educators aims to capture the various dimensions and sub-dimensions of critical digital literacies which are vital for educators and students living, teaching and learning in a digital world.
Read the Framework here.
This has been developed in order for computer science to become more prevalent and easily accessible to a wider audience.
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groups. Our vision is that every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science as part of their core K-12 education. The leading provider of K-12 computer science curriculum in the largest school districts in the United States, Code.org also created the annual Hour of Code campaign, which has engaged more than 15% of all students in the world.
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Opas tarjoaa opettajille pedagogisia reittejä ja käytännönläheisiä esimerkkejä yläkouluikäisten lasten ohjelmointiosaamisen edistämiseen vuosiluokilla 7-9. Opas on saatavilla suomeksi ja ruotsiksi ja se on osa laajempaa suomalaista Uudet lukutaidot -kokonaisuutta (https://uudetlukutaidot.fi/).
[This is a guidebook that offers pedagogical rotes and practical examples for teachers about promoting computational thinking and programming skills in lower secondary school. The guidebook is available in Finnish and Swedish, and it belongs to a larger Finnish material package about New literacies (https://uudetlukutaidot.fi/)]