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Description: As the new BC curriculum promotes a more inquiry-based approach to learning, the need to develop diverse digital literacies becomes even more crucial. But how can we keep up when new apps and programs keep popping up? In this PowerPoint used as part of his 2017 PSA Superconference keynote presentation, Ron Darvin talks about getting past an app-centred paradigm and to go back to what is at the core of digital literacy so that we can teach our students to be truly literate in the 21st century.

Subject: Revised Curriculum; Applied Skills; Information Technology; Cross-Curricular; Library and Information Systems; English Language Arts

Keywords: digital literacy; information literacy; computers; internet; CUEBC; BCTLA; technology; superconference

URLs: https://www.academia.edu/34936387/Bringing_back_the_literacy_in_digital_literacy

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Description: In this age of “post-truth”, how can we provide our students with a more critical lens to navigate the digital world and find legitimate information? In this PowerPoint used as part of his 2017 PSA Superconference keynote presentation, Ron Darvin discusses the mechanisms and motivations behind fake news and shares online tools and strategies to help students distinguish fake from the real, and lies from the truth.

Subject: Revised Curriculum; Applied Skills; Information Technology; Cross-Curricular; Library and Information Systems

Keywords: fake news; digital literacy; critical thinking; information literacy; CUEBC; BCTLA; superconference

URLs: https://www.academia.edu/34935283/Fake_news_and_critical_literacy_in_the_digital_age

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Description: A short history of Aboriginal Education, explanation of principles of Culturally Responsive Aboriginal Education, and a wealth of information about First Nations' learners and effective teaching methods.