This document outlines the sessions of a module on Digital Literacies and Learning Design. The module introduces participants to concepts around digital literacies and learner-centered design. Sessions include discussions on topics like digital natives, creating learning contexts, challenges of embedding technology, and open educational resources. Participants complete tasks like setting up blogs and online profiles, reading articles, and commenting on posts. They also plan and work on a learning design project to apply the concepts. The final session involves reflecting on teachers' digital literacy needs and how to stay up-to-date with web developments.

1. Digital Literacies and Learning Design
Session 1 – An introduction to Digital Literacies and Learning Design
Introduction to the Module
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Ice breaker – Expectations and concerns
Interactive presentation: Digital Literacies and Learning Design
Discussion: Digital Natives and Digital residents
---------------------------------Setting up reflective blogs on wordpress
Setting up twitter #DLLD14
Join Google+ community
Read White, D. S., & Cornu, A. L. (2011). Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online
engagement. First Monday, 16(9). Retrieved from
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3171
Comment on Digital nativism and online youth: separating fact from fiction
Online tasks:
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Blog about your teaching philosophy (with technology)
Read Building the Curriculum 4: Skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work

2. Session 2: Designing learning contexts for the digital literate learner
Discussion: Creating content or providing context?
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Learning and Teaching on the web (Digital Literacies and the Curriculum for Excellence)
Focus on the Participatory culture of the web
Pedagogical approaches (and how to embed the critical digital literacies)
Learning outcomes (Bloom's taxonomy revised)
Assessment strategies
The importance of being part of it / “buying into it” – as learner and teacher
Interactive presentation: Designing learning contexts: the learner-centred approach
Watch: From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-Able
Read: Wallace, C. S., & Priestley, M. (2011). Teacher beliefs and the mediation of curriculum
innovation in Scotland: A socio‐cultural perspective on professional development and change.
Journal of Curriculum Studies, 43(3), 357–381.
Comment on Realising the promise of digital technologies in learning and teaching
--------------------Workshop (or webquest): Critical Digital Literacies 5 resource Model & the 4 Capacities
Online tasks:
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blog about:
o your experience with the web
o the importance of aligning pedagogical approaches to learning outcomes and
assessment strategies
o your reflections about the class discussions

3. Session 3: Designing learning contexts for the digital literate learner
(cont.)
Discussion: Can we combine digital literacies and Learning design?
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How?
What are the challenges?
What does it mean to the Curriculum for Excellence
Sharing: Designing learning contexts: different activities and resources
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Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Webquests
Inquiry / project based learning
Games based learning
Storytelling
e-Portfolios
Etc.
--------------Read: Conole, G. (2013). Open, Social and Participatory Media. In Designing for learning in an open
world. New York, NY: Springer.
Comment: blogpost to be announced
Students start planning their learning design project
Online tasks:
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blog about your reflections about the class discussion

4. Session 4 - Digital Literacies: a response to the challenges of the web?
Discussion: Designing for learning: embedding technology – what challenges?
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Ethics
Cyberbullyng
Netiquette
Privacy and safety
Copyright
Mindsets
Etc
Interactive presentation: The challenges and possibilities of the web
Read: Digital Literacies across the Curriculum
Comment: blogpost to be announced
---------------Students work on their projects
Online tasks:
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blog about your project plan

5. Session 5 - Designing for learning: Student projects
Students work on their projects
-------------Presentation and discussion of Students’ projects

6. Session 6
Final reflection and next steps
What digital literacies do teachers need?
How can teachers keep up to date with the developments of the web and the demands of
the profession?