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Contributor(s): Erika E. Smith; Renate Kahlke; Terry Judd
Date issued: 2018
Description: Presentation from ASCILITE 2018 based upon a paper published in proceedings: While the academic community and the general public often refer to learners today as inherently tech-savvy digital natives, those in the educational technology community have long advocated for a move away from digital native stereotypes in favour of fostering digital literacy. As such, the educational technology community can play a vital role in shifting from popular conceptions of digital natives and toward developing digital literacy for the benefit of all learners. In this paper, we provide a comparative analysis of search data from Google Trends showing continued use of the term digital natives and the...
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): Teaching and Learning

Contributor(s): Jennifer Boman; Genevieve Currie; Ron MacDonald; Janice Miller-Young; Michelle Yeo; Stephanie Zettel
Date issued: 2015
Description: Tuning in on teaching practice in any discipline may well run up against a problem of tacit knowledge--knowledge crucial to the discipline’s ways of thinking and practicing, but by nature obscure. Teachers who omit to make their tacit knowledge explicit in the classroom cause learning bottlenecks for their students. Tacit knowledge can be made explicit to its teacher owner, with positive effect on her teaching, in an interview that invites her to address how she thinks and practices in work her students, lacking her tacit knowledge, find impossible to master (Middendorf & Pace, 2004). We have conducted half a dozen such 90-minute to two-hour interviews with university teachers in...
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): Teaching and Learning; Centres & Institutes