February 2012
Monthly Archives
Digital natives, digital competence and getting the right candidate into the job.
The goal of digital competence: be skilled at finding, evaluating, creating and effectively using information and transfer these skills to the workplace and personal life. Competency areas: visual literacy, new media literacy, information fluency, and information competency.
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Assessing Digital Natives for their Digital Competencies – What’s the score? Practical Applications of Research
Being familiar with computers and internet does not entail being able to use them in a competent way… living in a digital environment does not reliably imply being digital competent. What are the results when Digital Natives are assessed against Digital Competencies?
Digital natives are NOT all tech experts – guidance for training the ‘net generation at work
We can’t look at our learners as either in or out of a highly technically skilled group based simply on their age. As a learning and development professional, you know how to assess learners skills, knowledge and attitudes – and looking at their age isn’t it.
Mobile learning – if you build it, will they come? and stay? and love it? Part 2 of 2
The mobile learning in the experiment enables these types of interactions for learners: acquire knowledge, store knowledge, share with others and collaborate on collective knowledge, co-create new knowledge with peers.
Mobile learning – if you build it, will they come? and stay? and love it? Part 1 of 2
Mobile learning is something that fascinates most of us and vexes many with its myriad tradeoffs and troubleshooting. You can remove some of the struggles and uncertainties by leveraging recent research into what makes learners commit to using mobile learning.
