quinta-feira, 27 de junho de 2013

Literacia digital & bibliotecas (todas)


 
1. Increase Investment in Digital Literacy
2. Develop and Sustain Robust Partnerships and Collaborations
3. Strengthen and Expand Research and Assessment
4. Increase Access to Digital Literacy Programming
 

The Digital Literacy Task Force of the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy developed the following recommendations to advance and sustain library engagement in digital literacy initiatives nationwide as a companion to its January 2013 report Digital Literacy, Libraries, and Public Policy. Libraries of all types – school, academic, and public – play a vital role in ensuring all people have the skills and abilities to succeed in the Digital Age. These conclusions and recommendations culminate the task force’s work over 18 months and constitute a call to action on the part of the ALA, library education programs, front-line libraries, various funding bodies, and the diverse stakeholders who use and support library services.
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The Task Force defines "digital literacy" as: the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information, an ability that requires both cognitive and technical skills.

Bibliotecas e Programas de Literacia Digital
Conclusões e recomendações, 2013, ALA (EUA)

Ler mais aqui http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/2013_dltf_recommendations.pdf

quinta-feira, 20 de junho de 2013

EURODIG 2013, Lisboa



Twitter efervescente.
European Dialogue on Internet Governance
Edição de 2103, Lisboa: 2 dias, mais de 600 participantes fisicamente presentes, de países eutipeus mas também vizinhos (Mediterrâneo, Próximo Oriente, Leste...). Painéis com "pesos pesaos, intervenções interessantes da audiência, na sala e on line.
Temas realmente essenciais ao desenvolvimento das sociedades.


quarta-feira, 12 de junho de 2013

TIMMS 2011 - Portugal's Maths learning raising scores (those were the days)



The five East Asian countries had the largest percentages of fourth grade students (30–43%) reach the TIMSS 2011 Advanced International Benchmark. Building  on this head start, these five countries pulled away from the rest of the world by  a considerable margin at the eighth grade, with by far the largest percentages of students reaching this benchmark—nearly half (47–49%) in Chinese Taipei, Singapore, and Korea. 
Remarkably, nine countries raised achievement across their entire fourth grade student distribution, from low to high performers, improving across all four international benchmarks over the past decade; only one declined across all four benchmarks. At the eighth grade, only three countries showed improvement across all benchmarks, and three had declines.
Ler+:
http://timss.bc.edu/timss2011/downloads/T11_IR_M_Chapter2.pdf

Profissionais & Biblioteca Escolar


E mais aqui http://aslc.ca/for-teachers-teacher-librarians

Learning Commons Biblioteca Escolar RBE



O conceito de "Learning Commons" não é fácil de traduzir - no entanto, de há muito em Portugal que a RBE defende e pratica uma visão de biblioteca neste sentido, ultrapassando a "tradicional" biblioteca só de papel, só de livros e leitura de livros...  Rompemos muitas paredes e muitos muros, físicos e culturais, abrimos espaços e tempos de outras formas de ser biblioteca escolar.
Não precisámos de abandonar a antiga e nobre palavra Biblioteca, mas envolvêmo-la diariamente em funções de centro de recursos educativos, lugar de cultura e criação, convívio, arte e colaboração.
Por tudo isso, as preocupações associadas ao "Learning Commons" são-nos familiares, plasmadas em padrões de organização e gestão mas também em referenciais de aprendizagens indissociáveis da biblioteca escolar RBE, em desenvolvimento desde 1996.
Cenas como estas são mais correntes do que nunca entre nós:


Ler mais aqui

terça-feira, 11 de junho de 2013

Parlor: para explorar depois deste Verão


So what is Parlor?
"Parlor is a browser add-on that sits in your browser and measures reading activity on a limited set of sites defined in a Class Reading List. Parlor also allows you to flag (i.e. highlight), tag and share excerpts from anywhere on the web to a Class Feed where you can also see a dashboard of your personal reading activity as compared to the class as a whole. The Feed is also where you can view Topic, Sentiment and Theme Clouds that show the topics students are reading about (e.g. State of the Union, Transit in New Delhi, Baseball Trades) what they think of them (e.g. skeptical, confused, in awe) and the course concepts they're relating to, which you define."


Asking students to reflect on readings at both an emotional and cognitive level, is one way of providing learners with that much needed learning ownership. 
By applying for a pilot run, you can see whether Parlor would be suitable for your teaching context.

Obrigada, Ana Cristina Pratas (via E-Learning Gurus-Portugal, no Facebook)

Ler mais aqui no fabuloso Blog da Ana Cristina, Cristina Skybox http://cristinaskybox.blogspot.ae/2013/06/moving-towards-ownership.html