Module 1 Digital Literacies: Where is the concept from?

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1.4.2 Activity 2

Module 1 Digital Literacies: Where is the concept from? UNIT 1.4. Session plan 1.4.2 Activity 2

Description of the Learning Activities

Methodology

Timing (minutes)

Materials/ Equipment Required

The goal of this activity is to bring learners together in both physical and virtual world through the creation of an online community.

Learners will be motivated to witness, participate and benefit from digital literacy in action, using digital tools and sources in an engaging and interesting way. 

The face-to-face activity is intended to be implemented in courses with a duration of at least 4-weeks or longer aspiring to be more than just an individual – “time limited” activity and become part of the course during its full duration –and hopefully– to be continued after its completion.

For shorter-time courses the online methodology can work better for both digital and face-to-face classes.

Face-to-face:

  1. Explain to the learners the main goal of “crowd- accelerated learning”, that is to bring enough people with a common interest together, so that they will start to share and improve.
  2. You are also encouraged to conduct you own research about “crowd-accelerated learning”.
  3. Create a Facebook (or other social media) group for the members of the course and decide on a title/name for it.
  4. Encourage learners to search for other groups with similar content to get ideas
  5. Discuss and write down basic “rules” and “directions for all group participants.
  6. Explain to the learners the use and the purpose of hashtags (#) as a way to connect social media content to a specific topic, event, theme or conversation.
  7. Discuss and decide the best hashtags for your group, knowing that more hashtags could be added later.
  8. Agree that every day (or once or twice in the week) all the group members will create at least one post with material related to the course, using the right hashtags (e.g. videos, related sources, newsfeed or even personal thoughts and ideas for further discussion).
  9. When the course/lessons approach to end, discuss about what the online group has offered and decide if you would like to keep it and maybe invite other people to join.

90 minutes

(in order to discuss about the activity and organise the function and rules of the group)

PC, tablets or mobile phones with internet connection

Classroom or paper board and markers

Online:

  1. Explain to the learners the main goal of “crowd- accelerated learning”, that is to bring enough people with a common interest together, so that they will start to share and improve.
  2. Also discuss the use and the purpose of hashtags (#) as a way to connect social media content to a specific topic, event, theme or conversation.
  3. Practitioners and educators are encouraged to conduct their own research about “crowd-accelerated learning” and social media hashtags.
  4. Ask the learners to search on the social media (mainly Facebook, Twitter or even Instagram) about groups and hashtags related to the subject of their course and keep notes (and the weblinks). Make sure that they will have enough time to do so.
  5. The practitioner/educator can create a shared google .doc or dropbox paper so that all the learners to collect their notes in one place.
  6. Discuss the results all together and identify the most “active” groups and “effective” hashtags.
  7. Learners can be encouraged to join these groups and/or start creating posts using the hashtags identified.

90

A shared Google .doc or dropbox paper

Instructions on how to share files from Google Drive Link 

Instructions on How to create a Dropbox Paper doc Link 

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