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Posted on 12 Dec 2012 with 0 comments
A study of students’ ability to evaluate digital texts has revealed that teenagers find it particularly difficult to determine the credibility and trustworthiness of material on the internet. There is sometimes an assumption that young people who have been brought up in digital environments are able to use online information effectively. Operating successfully in the digital environment requires the ability to evaluate the usefulness and trustworthiness of information.
See DERN convenor, Dr Gerald White, at the 2013 Australian College of Educators national conference.
The one-day national conference will address the important issues that require the engagement and action of educators. Dr White will address some of the successes and failures of the past as well as some future challenges using digital technologies and digital media in education.
Read Dr White’s thoughts on the key issues.
Reforming educational assessment: imperatives, principles and challenges
Research Conference 2013
How the Brain Learns: What lessons are there for teaching?
4 - 6 August 2013
Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
› 21st century skills (108)
› Assessment online (34)
› Collaboration (117)
› Digital literacy (111)
› Educational leadership (35)
› Engagement and performance (125)
› Equity (39)
› Evaluating ICT effects (61)
› ICT in education (181)
› Information (41)
› Information sources (41)
› Innovation (83)
› Interactive personal networking (52)
› Internet use (94)
› Learning communities (36)
› Learning environment (194)
› Mobile learning (81)
› Open scholarship (36)
› Pedagogy (173)
› Personalising learning (52)
› Social Media (70)
› Teacher capacity (55)
› Trends (57)
