Presentation for LINQ12, Brussels (Conference on Quality and Innovation in Learning)

1. EDUCATORS’ DIGITAL LITERACIES:
THE ROLE OF PEDAGOGICAL DESIGN
IN INNOVATION
F. Dujardin, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

2. Designing for multiple contexts
Knowledge • Digital literacies
society • Networked self
Higher • Standards
Education • Relevance
MA professional • Quality in teaching
communication • Innovation

3. Pedagogical design – Collective blogging as case
study

4. Outline
 Three key concepts:
 Blogging
 Metaphorof learning
 Academic literacies
 „New‟ methodological approach –
ethnographic action research
 Discussion points
 Widening the communicative ecology
 Planning socio-cultural animation
 Implication for educators‟ digital literacies

5. Why focus on blogging?
Paradigmati
c technology
Knowledge
sharing tool
Personal or
collective?

6. Powerful metaphors
‘Diary’ ‘Participation’
 personal space  blog as „open‟ space
 privacy  public
 difficult to share and  community
to assess  “active sociality”
(Lankshear and Knobel 2006)
 assessment?
Trialogical approach to ‘knowledge creation’ – self, community,
outputs

7. „Academic literacies‟
 Part of the New Literacies movement
 lookingbeyond established literacies
 power relations and expectations
 Self-awareness – educators as
“recontextualisation agents” (Coleman 2012) in the
use of ICT
 „authentic‟ use of ICT or normalisation?
 enculturation into a dominant order of high tech
and global capitalism (Tusting 2008) or encouraging
critical confidence (Goodfellow and Lea 2007) ?

8. Ethnographic action research
Communicati
ve ecology Reflexivity
Socio-
cultural
animation
Social
mapping

9. Widening the communicative
ecology
1. Routine stage – using the VLE and observing
students‟ reactions
2. Refinement stage – introducing blogs within
the VLE
3. Integration stage – using a private collective
blog set up in WordPress, while keeping the
VLE for module information and submissions

10. Socio-cultural animation
 Scaffolding „new‟ practices in
knowledge creation
 enablingmature learners to
become „digital residents‟
 managing understandings of
educational practices
 Authentic use of blog for
meaning-making
 Mediating more than disciplinary
knowlege

11. Conclusion: new roles for
educators
Catalyst Curator
Mediator

12. Thank you
for listening