Websites, articles and information about digital literacy, credentialing and badges along with other related content. If you have not yet heard of these terms, check out these sites, because you will be hearing about digital literacy from now moving forward.
- Atomic Size Matters: Veronica Berns is raising funds for Atomic Size Matters on Kickstarter! A doctoral thesis in theoretical solid state chemistry….in comic book form.
- Seeing in New Dimensions: another article about Veronica Berns-this one is from Inside Higher Ed
- Credentialing in Higher Education Current Challenges and Innovative Trends: if we think about what colleges and universities do, there are very few things that technology has not fundamentally either transformed or begun to transform. Yet, for all the ways in which technology is changing teaching and learning, research, services, there is one area that has not been affected much at all: the transcript.
- Developing students’ digital literacy: While employability is an obvious driver, developing students who can learn and thrive in a digital society is a key role for universities and colleges.
- Digital Citizenship: this website
- Free Tech for Teachers: This is a blog worth checking out for technology ideas. By Richard Byrnes.
- Overcoming Resistance to Change: change is always challenging. Here are the top ten reasons people resist change and some tips to helping people move beyond resistance.
- Parchment: Parchment turns credentials into opportunities. We help learners, educators, associations and employers securely send and receive education credentials online.
- Using Badging as an Open Educational Resource: visit the website and also download and look at the powerpoint presentation.
- Where Does Our Digital Literacy Come From? In 2015, there is an assumption that those of us who work in higher education will have some degree of technology fluency that will be used to affect our professional existence in some way or another.
- If we think of our students’ future being like this video [above] then we have some teaching and they have some learning to do-just to get students on the ‘basic technology learning curve’.
