It is indeed an interesting report, well worth sharing.
See too my commentary at https://landing.athabascau.ca/blog/view/1088798/niggles-about-ngdles-lessons-from-elf, which has links to this whitepaper, to my earlier comments on it, and to Tony Bates's thoughts on the idea that started the conversation. See also some excellent analysis by Michael Feldstein at http://mfeldstein.com/the-educause-ngdle-and-an-api-of-ones-own/ which goes into a lot of technical depth and detail on where the dragons lie in all this.
The paper describes how many of us think we should be thinking about building systems to support online learning - indeed, I have been saying so for well over 10 years - though I and others are a bit concerned that it will repeat the mistakes made in earlier projects of a similar nature, especially on the very similar and even higher profile ELF project over 10 years ago. It's the right way to build learning systems but perhaps a lighter-touch approach to standards would be wise.
Thanks for the sharing Sandra. Classroom got lots of limitation. This reminds me Ken Robinson's TED talk: Do schools kill creativity?
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en
I think we should promot more real-world projects, situated learning, etc ...
Thanks for your comments Corinne, Mary, Jon and Elena.
Good idea Mary. I hanged the poster here too (at the ELC)
Thanks Jon for your comment. You got a good point.
I agree 'Critical thinking in x' would make the meaning of the title even more descriptive and meaningful. However, in the context of the conference (Design for Learning: Fostering deeper learning, critical thinking and engagement), I think the title of the poster was more suitable and gave me more opportunities to get my point across in an already complex discussion.
Anyway, I think Mary is right too. If we understand Literacy as the ‘Competence or knowledge in a specified area’ (Oxford Dicrtionary) and agree with the idea of ‘infinite literacies’, ‘x literacy’ would be equally worthwhile
All in all, from the Bricolage perspective, I think you are totally right!
Hi Elena:
Thanks for your critical comment. Yeah, if we think critically, literacy is pretty much associated to knowledge, indeed.
In the context AU is going through, I think it would be interesting to replicate this study to know our student population even better.
Part 1 of 3 https://idealprojectblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/ideal_report_final.pdf
Part 2 of 3 https://idealprojectblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/ideal-report-2-final.pdf
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