Mind the (Digital) Gap!

Mitchell, Stuart; Pelka, Bastian

Mind the (Digital) Gap!

dc.contributor.author	Mitchell, Stuart
dc.contributor.author	Pelka, Bastian
dc.date.accessioned	2017-03-23T10:27:49Z
dc.date.available	2017-03-23T10:27:49Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	The key focus of this paper revolves around the dual concepts of teachers acting as ‘digital intermediaries’ for students, pupils or marginalized persons and their ‘designing’ role in developing, maintaining and celebrating the creation of ideas, collaborative interactions and dissemination in the form of information as a sustainable commodity. The use of social (and digital) media becomes the ‘alternative’ collaborative tool that allows participants to engage in innovative learning environments, existing both inside and outside of the classroom. In using the platform of social media as a social innovation tool the project provided educators with the relevant knowledge, skills, values and capabilities required in facilitating a meaningful curriculum for the development of citizenship (in this case European) and sustainability in terms of a knowledge sharing community. The basis of this paper surrounds the intentions, implementations and outcomes of the EU-funded Comenius project ‘Learn to Teach by Social Web’ (L2T – www.learn2.teach.eu) which set out to exploit the educational potential that social media offers teachers in engaging their learners in the contextual development of skills and knowledge through an ‘alternative’ or unfamiliar learning paradigm. The project outcome is a self-study curriculum for teachers who would like to use social media in their classroom lectures.	en
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-898749-15-8
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2003/35889
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-17913
dc.language.iso	en	de
dc.subject	digital divide	en
dc.subject	social media	en
dc.subject	social innovation	en
dc.subject	communities of inquiry	en
dc.subject	sustainable learning environment	en
dc.subject	collaborative environment	en
dc.subject	empowering learners	en
dc.subject.ddc	300
dc.subject.rswk	Digitale Spaltung	de
dc.subject.rswk	Social Media	de
dc.subject.rswk	Sozialinnovation	de
dc.subject.rswk	Lernumwelt	de
dc.subject.rswk	Nachhaltigkeit	de
dc.title	Mind the (Digital) Gap!	en
dc.title.alternative	Exploiting the Educational Potential that Social Media offers Teachers in Bridging their Learners‘ Skills and Knowledge in Creating a Just and Sustainable World.	en
dc.type	Text	de
dc.type.publicationtype	conferenceObject	de
dcterms.accessRights	open access

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