Learning literacies - Resources

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Collection of resources from the course modules



Use it - Technology Operations and Concepts

Learning

  • The 6-Step Guide To Becoming A Better Learner - Learning is about enriching our minds, honing our skills, and changing the way we see ourselves and the world. It improves our behavior and the way we think by expanding and challenging our understanding. All too often I met students who were waiting for learning to happen, waiting for the right teacher to teach in the right way. But waiting can easily be disguised as productive—it isn’t. There are practices you can engage in right now that puts you on the path of self-education.
  • Learning How to Learn - selected short videos produced by students. These videos talk about different strategies for learning.


Digital Citizenship

  • Digital Citizenship - “the self-monitored habits that sustain and improve the digital communities you enjoy or depend on.”
  • The Definition Of Digital Citizenship - student-friendly approach by defining digital citizenship in terms of its actions and habits: using, sifting, mastering, creating–the literal actions that ultimately define the tone of a student’s interactions with their digital environments. graphic
  • 20 Basic Rules For Digital Citizenship - summary of appropriate online behavior in general, and for distance learning courses
  • Web Literacies - Exploring, Building, Connecting - weekly discussions - competency from each strand


Time management, Planning


Personal responsibility


Technology tips


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Find it - Research and Information Fluency

Effective people


Math matters


Listening, Note-taking


Search, evaluation, citation, plagiarism


Creative Commons, images, video

  • Creative Commons - a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Our free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice.
  • WikiMedia Commons - a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone
  • Flickr Creative Commons - Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
  • A Shared Culture (video 3:20) - some of the leading thinkers behind Creative Commons describe how the organization is helping save the world from failed sharing through free tools that enable creators to easily make their work available to the public for legal sharing and remix.
  • Wanna Work Together? (video 3:00) - using Creative Commons (CC) licenses to build a better, more vibrant creative culture.


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Protect it - Identity, Privacy and Copyright

Identity theft, privacy

  • PrivacyGrade Grading The Privacy Of Smartphone (Android) Apps from a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. assigned privacy grades to Android apps based on some techniques developed to analyze to their privacy-related behaviors.
  • Twelve Really Useful Links You Need to Know to Stay Safe on the Internet - a collection of articles that will help you understand the tricks and tactics used by malware writers and that explain how to set up some powerful computer defenses.
  • You Can Create The Perfect Password. Here's How - useful tips for creating and keeping track of your passwords, to better protect your personal information online
  • *Passwords - comic illustrates the problems with rules for passwords
  • *11 Tips For Students To Manage Their Digital Footprints - Digital Footprint - the record or trail left by the things you do online. Your social media activity, the info on your personal website, your browsing history, your online subscriptions, any photo galleries and videos you’ve uploaded — essentially, anything on the Internet with your name on it.
  • *You're Being Watched - even if someone isn't trying to steal your identity, they still want to know everything about you so they can place advertising where you are likely to see it.
  • *Here's How Easily Someone Could Hack Into Your Life (Infographic) - If you're reading this, there's 69 percent chance you will become a victim of hacking at some point in your lifetime. And if you think protecting yourself is as easy as changing a couple passwords and installing some anti-virus software, you're 100 percent wrong.
  • SciFri 12jul podcast - With the NSA conducting surveillance on our data and Google scanning our email, how can we protect our personal information? Jon Xavier, digital producer at Silicon Valley Business Journal, discusses the services that you can use to make your information more secure and private.
  • Cloudsweeper email tools - Safeguarding your cloud based storage.] - tools to help users understand and control their risks online while also conducting research to better understand those risks at a systemic level.
  • *DuckDuckGo - Search anonymously. Find instantly. - search engine that does NOT save your search history and share it with the government.
  • Ghostery - user-friendly privacy tool to understand and control more than 1,800 trackers that are tracking them when they browse.
  • Steal this blog - "Oversharing might result in more risk and unintended consequence than on might think, especially in the long run. If you’re comfortable being a human homing beacon, that’s fine, we just want you to be fully aware of what that means and the potential risk it might involve."
  • Three types of online attack: Mikko Hypponen on TED.com - Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data — and only two are considered crimes.
  • Identity Theft Information - approximately 15 million United States residents have their identities used fraudulently each year, about $50 billion loss, approximately 7% of all adults have their identities misused, $3,500 losses each. each year 100 million personal identifying information placed at risk when government and corporate databases are lost or stolen.


Copyright, citation, plagiarism

  • Did I Plagiarize? - infographic
  • Can I Use That Picture? - infographic
  • Plagiarism: How to Avoid It (video 2:50) - good overview of plagiarism, what it is and how to avoid it.
  • Why It’s Time To Change How Students Cite Their Work - Without readily available sources to review, the audience cannot truly evaluate the validity of the project. They are left with what might be a beautiful and elegant project (the product) without knowing the sources used to construct it (the process).
  • Citing Sources - Finding the information for your research paper and determining whether that information fits what you need is just the first part of the process. Next, when you’re using this information in your own work, you’ll need to cite your sources to avoid plagiarism. Ethical standards require that you give credit to all published authors for their ideas.
  • Plagiarism - Most cases of plagiarism can be avoided by citing sources. Simply acknowledging that certain material has been borrowed and providing your audience with the information necessary to find that source is usually enough to prevent plagiarism.


Reading

  • DeAnza Student Success - Reading - resources, reading strategies, practice articles
  • Reading College Texts - preview, ask questions, read for details, review
  • Reading Skills - strategies for reading for college
  • How to do a Close Reading - developing a deep understanding and a precise interpretation of a literary passage that is based first and foremost on the words themselves. But a close reading does not stop there; rather, it embraces larger themes and ideas evoked and/or implied by the passage itself.


Social media, Twitter

  • Newbie's guide to Twitter - Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and friends. It's just not completely obvious how to get started.


Financial literacy


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Solve it - Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

Problem solving, critical thinking, learning, dealing with failure


Asking questions

  • 8 Tips for Becoming a Better Questioner - Innovation starts with questioning. Here's a quick list of 8 things great questioners do that set them apart from everyone else.
  • 15 Things You Will Never Hear a Master Questioner Say (video 2:29)
  • *Learn by Asking Questions - Asking Questions May Be the Single Most Important Thing You Learn
  • Learning To Ask The Right Question - a six-step process for learning to formulate questions and take ownership of learning. The strategy can be used to set a fresh learning agenda for yourself, develop science experiments, create research projects, begin research on a teacher-assigned topic, prepare to write an essay, analyze a word problem, think more deeply about a challenging reading assignment, prepare an interview, or simply get “unstuck.” The four rules are: ask as many questions as you can; do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer any of the questions; write down every question exactly as it was stated; and change any statements into questions.


Mobile tools

  • 5 Apps To Help You Cope With Anxiety - there is an app from almost everything it seems.
  • BYOD Toolchest - created by a teacher, this list outlines mobile apps that students and teachers can use for just about everything related to teaching and learning.


Programming

  • Hour of Code - main page, video, link to tutorials. Learn to program by directing Angry Bird characters
  • Scratch - a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.


Tests and exams


Resumes, careers

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Make it - Creativity and Innovation

Active Learning

  • Web Literacy Map is part of Mozilla’s ongoing goal to create a generation of webmakers – those who can not only elegantly consume but also write and participate on the web.


Productivity


Presentation


Writing


Creativity, innovation

  • IDEO Values - 7 videos. IDEO is in the business of design and innovation, and their overall success is dependent on the overlaps between everyone’s skills.
  • Student Film Festival - 16 selections tell the story of exactly why it's so important that we make sure more classrooms have the kind of cutting-edge technology they promote.
  • How To Build Your Tribe - Finding ‘Your People’ - One of the most fundamental human needs is the need to belong.


Project management


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Share it - Communication and Collaboration

Academic success

  • Career development - links to a number of articles about career development in the current job market. Many reference lifelong learning and the use of technology as key factors.
  • Online Colleges and E-Learning Excellence - A student's guide to online education, from getting started to graduation. Learn keys to success and important how-tos from today's leading distance learning experts.
  • The Learning Flow - a continuous steady stream of social micro-learning activities – accessible from the web and mobile devices
  • Academic Skills - short videos - time management, think like a professor,...
  • Academic Skill-Building - * Ten Secrets of University Success * University Time Management * Reading Skills for University * Note-taking at University * Preparing for Tests and Exams
  • Khan Academy - practice and level up your skills or choose from thousands of lessons to learn something new.


Peer review, feedback, constructive criticism

  • Peer Editing Guide - this guide will help you to make thoughtful comments about another student's work.


Openness, collaboration, sharing

  • Openness in education David Wiley proposes 4 R’s — Reuse, Redistribute, Revise, and Remix.
  • 10 Tips for Blended Work Environments - A distributed workforce is becoming much more mainstream in today’s economy. Control over path and pace is not just for online learners – it’s for companies now, too. When given flexibility over working location, team members thrive. Allowing team members to work in an environment that is most productive for them has yielded great results.
  • Why That Video Went Viral - “People build their online identities by sharing,” he said. “They want people to think of them a certain way.”
  • Six-Word Memoirs - a powerful tool to inspire conversation around a big idea, and a simple way for individuals to break the ice.


Health and wellness


Online volunteering, community service learning

  • Online volunteering - thousands (if not millions) of engaged citizens volunteer virtually — using their computers, the Internet, even cell phones.
  • Guide to Volunteer Opportunities Online - It has never been easier to volunteer, and it seems to be more popular than ever as people of all ages and abilities look for ways to improve their communities.
  • Volunteer Match - online as well as in person volunteering opportunities


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