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Free Online Class – Online Literacy and Critical Thinking

   
Alexandre Enkerli
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Tuesday, 30 September, 2008 10:00 AM To 11:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Tags: eLearning Online Teaching Teaching 2.0 Critical Thinking
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These days, students and teachers alike are spending a lot of time online. Among issues which affect those who "live on the Internet," information validity and "information overload" are frequently discussed. Both of these issues can be addressed through critical thinking. More specifically, students and teachers can undertake what Alexandre calls "online literacy," the Internet version of "media literacy." By evaluating, creating, and analyzing online content, anyone should be able to assess the validity of the information they process and decrease the effects of "information overload" in their online lives.

This session will explore online literacy in learning and teaching contexts.
About the presenter: Alexandre Enkerli
Alex is a French-speaking ethnographer from Montreal, Qc. As a part-time or visiting lecturer, he has been teaching anthropology, folkloristics, and sociology at diverse universities in Canada and the United States, including Concordia University in Montreal and Indiana University South Bend. His teaching philosophy has been influenced by his constructivist father and by diverse learning experiences. Alex pretty much lives online. Apart from diverse activities on online services like Facebook and Twitter, he participates in diverse online forums and mailing-lists, including the Moodle community at Moodle.org. His main blog is Disparate.
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