21st Century Learning and Teaching

I strongly believe in the use of Twitter for professional development and from my own experience with it I can attest to its practicability and usability.

Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education

The result is that students not only have access to seemingly endless amounts of information, but also personalize content and reorganize it in a fashion that best allows them to make sense of a topic, and to share it with peers (Lessig 2008).

===> Teachers at all levels of education must be prepared to negotiate the digital realities of their students as they design learning experiences around critical inquiry, analysis, and evaluation. <===

===> Indeed, educators today have a certain responsibility to focus student skills and experiences in an exercise of participation with the surrounding media (Jenkins et al. 2009). <===