Markus Spiske Setting the scene A number of recent events have led to this post. The first was the publication of a terrific blog post by Elizabeth Hutchinson who wrote about Why copyright ‘For educational purposes’ is becoming a real problem. The second was my participation as co-leader of Topic 2, Sharing and Openness for […]
Tag: critical literacy
Open Education in 2018 – Shifting Sands
This post provides a brief summary of my reflections and insights after an asynchronous discussion with the ONL181 cohort about the concepts of open education and sharing openly online. As some of you may know, I have been involved with ONL for several years, and have blogged about my experiences as participant, co-facilitator and now […]
Engagement, participation and creating a space at the table: #EngageMOOC
I have enrolled in a very short MOOC which focuses on Engagement in a time of Polarization. The reason I enrolled in this learning opportunity is because my research is exploring a type of participatory learning – personal learning networks. The question posed by Prof. Natalie Delia Deckard, of Davidson College, the institution hosting this MOOC is […]
Don’t believe everything you hear…
The horrific events in Manchester that occurred yesterday has brought to mind the importance of critical literacy in an age where news is communicated as it happens via social media outlets such as Twitter. I was at home reading when I noticed that someone had re-tweeted a video, claiming that there had been an ‘incident’ […]
Filters and Filter Failure: Part 3: 2nd Stage Filtration
Welcome to Part 3 of this series of blog posts which focus on the concept that ‘it’s not information overload: it’s filter failure’ first identified by Clay Shirky back in 2008. If you’ve been following from Parts 1 and 2, you will be familiar with my prototype for 2-stage filtration, a (tongue in cheek) model […]
Filters and Filter Failure: Part 2: 1st stage filtration
If you have read part one of this series of blog posts on critical web literacy, information overload and filter failure, you will be familiar with my prototype for a ‘two-stage filtration model’ which I suggest may be a (tongue in cheek) way to manage and improve filtration of information, so that we can feel […]
Filters and Filter Failure: Part 1: It’s not Information Overload…
This is part one of a three part blog series on filters and filter failure. In the first of this series of posts, I reflect on the term ‘filter failure’ and analyse whether the statement ‘it’s not information overload, it’s filter failure’ still holds true. I then suggest a two-stage ‘filtration model’ for critical web literacy, […]