Let’s Face Time it: Creating much needed digital literacy awareness
Professor Stephen J Hall (Sunway University, Malaysia)
The development of ones digital presence is often not reflected on or seen as a crafted construction of a public identity. Yet everyday, billions are positioning their digital presence through social media by creating a digital footprint. Our digital footprint is created by choosing and following while are being followed and tracked. Few are conscious of how much tracking and data mining is going on and many in education do little to acknowledge the need for digital literacy in creating and searching for information. This workshop will address these concerns and
# share reflective approaches to our own digital footprinting
# provide critical analysis tools for websites and Facebook
# outline a working grammar for online searches
#suggest techniques for incorporating digital literacy skills into language learning programmes
# model a loop input approach aimed at deconstructing teacher transmission dominance.