Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path
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Literacy in a digital education world and peripheral issues.
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Make Long Google Docs Easier to Navigate With a Hyperlinked Outline | Free Technology for Teachers

Make Long Google Docs Easier to Navigate With a Hyperlinked Outline | Free Technology for Teachers | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

One of the "hidden" or frequently overlooked features of Google Documents is the built-in outline tool. The outline tool lets you create an outline that is hyperlinked to sections of your document. Any section that begins with header text or bolded font can be automatically added to the hyperlinked outline in your document. Watch the following video to see how this process is done.

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How Parents Can Help Kids Navigate the Pressures of Their Digital Lives

How Parents Can Help Kids Navigate the Pressures of Their Digital Lives | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

"In the same way that different teenagers need different types of social support from their parents, they need different types of digital support, as well. If your teen seems irritable or overwhelmed by social media, pay attention to what specifically is causing those feelings."


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The future of knowledge navigation | Learning with 'e's

Will we ever reach the point in our human development where our relationship with our technologies becomes so natural that they become a part of us? Will we ever be able to claim that they are a problem free extension of our physical capabilities - seamlessly connected to our minds? Many would argue that we have already achieved this. Perhaps though, this would have been an easier question to answer in the last century than it is today. The answer then would have been 'yes - we have already achieved it'.

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Repeat after me: Academic Databases are the Netflix for Nerds! 

Repeat after me: Academic Databases are the Netflix for Nerds!  | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Kristen Mattson writes: "As a high school librarian, I know how important it is for my students to navigate and utilize academic databases. Ninety five percent of our students graduate with plans to continue their education, and will be expected to conduct research through their college or university library subscriptions.

 

Teaching students to navigate the databases is not the hardest part of my job, though. The most difficult part is convincing students that they are worth exploring." 


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Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight, September 25, 2018 4:11 PM

This is such a great idea! Now that every school district in California has access to Proquest databases via the Department of Education, I've been struggling with how to convince my 8th graders to use them. Kristen has come up with a wonderful way to get students to understand and to use databases! I can't wait to try this!

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Digital Literacy for Digital Natives and Their Professors

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In yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed’s technology blog, Joshua Kim wrote about “Courses, Facebook, and Secret Groups,” in which he pointed out that “There is a world of social learning going on, and we (meaning us instructors, educational technologists – basically anyone employed on the instructional or administrative sides of the house), know nothing about what is going on.”  He then explains how students are using Secret Groups in Facebook—as well as other technologies—to learn outside the classroom.

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When kids are skilled navigators of our networked world | NetFamilyNews.org

When kids are skilled navigators of our networked world | NetFamilyNews.org | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
I predict that, when the discourse about youth & new media is less about fear and control and more about literacy, a learning renaissance will be unleashed.

 

 

We all – young people and everybody who works with them – are learning what that looks like: skilled navigation of a networked world. We’re also working out what the skills are, how to teach them and what kind of environment (home, school and media environment) support that learning.

As a society, we’ve only just begun working the problem. The first 15 or so years of the public discussion about youth Internet safety has been much more about protecting children from new media than about helping them learn to navigate it successfully (including safely).

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