This presentation is posted with permission by Doug Johnson who created it. It was presented on March 21st as part of the EdTechConnect series of webinars the Discovery Educator Network (DEN). For more information about Doug Johnson, visit doug-johnson.com. For more information about the DEN, visit DiscoveryEducatorNetwork.com
Involving young people in Innovative Educational ICT Initiative.Ramon Bartomeus
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Workshop presented at UN GAID Global Forum Monterrey (Mexico) September 4/2009 by Ramon Bartomeus from Iwith.org Foundation.
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2016 COST Action/DigiLitEY Annual Meeting Keynote Presentation
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Sara M. Grimes, PhD
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Presented at the Mobile Web East Africa conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 4 February 2010.
The results of the m4Lit pilot project - the Kontax m-novel are described.
This presentation is posted with permission by Doug Johnson who created it. It was presented on March 21st as part of the EdTechConnect series of webinars the Discovery Educator Network (DEN). For more information about Doug Johnson, visit doug-johnson.com. For more information about the DEN, visit DiscoveryEducatorNetwork.com
Involving young people in Innovative Educational ICT Initiative.Ramon Bartomeus
Involving young people in Innovative Educational ICT Initiative.
Workshop presented at UN GAID Global Forum Monterrey (Mexico) September 4/2009 by Ramon Bartomeus from Iwith.org Foundation.
Developing a Digital Citizenship ProgramCathy Oxley
Promoting responsible Digital Citizenship within the school environment.
Schools have a duty of care to teach students how to behave in responsible and ethical ways when using the internet. A negative online presence can have a profound impact on a student’s learning, and personal and professional life. This looks at ways of helping students create a positive digital footprint and the process for developing a whole school Digital Citizenship program. Includes examples of a wide range of sources schools can use when implementing such a program.
Presentation for Speakers Ink Seminar, August 2012 and Creating Future Libraries Day October 2012
Connected Creations and Wi-Fi Enabled Imaginations: The emerging challenges a...Sara Grimes
2016 COST Action/DigiLitEY Annual Meeting Keynote Presentation
November 7, 2016, Prague, Czech Republic
Sara M. Grimes, PhD
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
m-Novels for Africa: A South African Case StudySteve Vosloo
Presented at the Mobile Web East Africa conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 4 February 2010.
The results of the m4Lit pilot project - the Kontax m-novel are described.
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I presented at the 2008 Games, Learning and Society and ED-MEDIA conferences. In this presentation are broad themes related to digital game-based learning ...
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28 countries represented, sharing their experiences of planning and implementing 1:1 computing initiatives
Hosted by the Korean Ministry of Education and the World Bank, along with KERIS, UNESCO Bangkok and Intel
South Korea is one of the leaders in digital learning, so it was a fitting context for the country
A number of lessons were learned and known ones confirmed …
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
2. Background
HIV/AIDS, poverty, conflict
& unemployment
Significant psychosocial
needs of youth in South
Africa
Hero book: a child is the
author, illustrator, main
character (hero) and
editor of a paper-based
book that is designed to
help them overcome a
specific challenge or
obstacle in their life to
reach their goals
Good but limited reach
3. Overview (intended)
Hero book
•Increased self
+ +
esteem
Video Discussion forum
● ●
•Resilience
•School environment Global
●
•Safe, secure platform
Stanford University
Reuters Foundation
4. Pilot sites
Cape Town, South
Africa
Nyeri, Kenya
San Francisco, USA
5. Outputs
South Africa
78 learners created paper hero books
Hero booking was offered in Reading, English,
Administration, Life orientation and Arts & Culture
lessons.
15 learners were part of the online exchange.
20 learners created digital versions of their books
through 2 digital storytelling workshops.
Kenya and USA
7 learners created paper hero books (Kenya).
15 learners were part of the online exchange (Kenya
and USA).
7. “Some of my learners who were the most disruptive
before, have been the most enthusiastic to embark on
the project.”
“They definitely have more self-confidence.”
“The workshop helped me to overcome my problem. I
am now able to talk in front of people without becoming
nervous.”
“It was an experience of a lifetime and I learned many
things. I learned a lot of computer skills.”
8. Challenges
Educator related
Educators' capacity (time and skills)
Short lesson times
Difficulty of online communications with educators
Psychosocial related
Dealing with psychosocial issues
Challenge of scaling psychosocial work
Evaluation is time-consuming
General
Curriculum alignment
9. Lessons learned and
recommendations
Digital media production is engaging
Improved educator-learner relationships
More interactive platform needed
More inclusive digital activities
The challenge of coordination
More facilitation of online engagement
Next steps:
More schools in CT
More in-depth evaluation
Curriculum alignment
Enable secure social networking
Toolkit
10. Improving cross-cultural
awareness and communication
through mobile technologies
Teens in South Africa and USA
Camera phones and blogs
Think about and present culture in:
Your life
Your home
Your community
Capture, upload, view, reflect
11.
12. Implications for Africa
Technology is mediating the way that youth around the
world communicate, and consume and create content
Increased collaboration across place and culture
Need for cross-cultural awareness and communication
skills is more important than ever
Digital media technologies: cameras, phones, web can
mediate the development of these skills
Africa needs to:
Develop more local content
Collaborate more – inside and outside continent