Learning to Learn How to Teach DL Skills & Strategies

After our group report, Dr Towndrow used cooperative learning technique to draw out the skills and strategies in teaching the four core skills underlying digital literacy: locate, evaluate, use and create information.

The activity made me wonder what skills and strategies (if there is any) do I possess. In terms of the first skill (locate), I can claim that I do have facility for this, but with the last one (create), I have to admit that I can only create power point presentation, no more.

Even though I am not currently teaching in a regular school, I was struck by how much extra work I have to do to catch up with the level of technical know-how expected of the educators of the 21st century.

Learning to learn the DL skills and strategies is not easy to accomplish. This is probably the most important justification for taking this course.

With the session dealing with the first skill, ‘locate,’the journey of learning to learn how to teach DL skills and strategies has just began…