Proposal and Presentation for NMP

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Here I will share the proposal and presentation for the New Media Pedagogy Conference being held virtually and organized by the University of Macerata – Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Italy and the Jagiellonia University – Institute of Education, Poland.

This presentation emerged from the chapter I wrote for the publication of Digital Literacy for Teachers, edited by Tomczyk and Fedeli (2022).

Proposal

The fabric of digital literacy learning and the measurement of digital competence in Canadian faculties of education is multi-coloured and multi-textured. The threads connecting these digital literacy practices and research are loosely stitched together into a national tapestry, full of holes and imperfections. Yet, just as Canadian singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen suggests, these cracks allow the light to shine through.

In this presentation, the research emerging across Canada will illuminate distinctive patterns in teaching, learning, and research into digital literacies and digital competencies in faculties of education. Singular threads reveal trends that enhance digital literacy learning and digital competency development. Research into digital readiness, a digital competence profile, and self-study scholarship reveals the patchy nature of measurement of digital literacies in Canadian faculties of education.

This presentation shares insights into contextual factors that impact teaching and learning in faculties of education in Canada. This presenter will illuminate limitations and barriers, the cracks in the development of digital literacies in teacher education programs in Canada which allow individual lights of innovation to shine across this vast and diverse country. Of particular importance to this exploration into the infusion and measurement of digital literacy and digital competency in teacher education programs is one caution Giroux (2012) presents, that of “the commodification of knowledge and the privatizing of both the learning process and the spaces in which it takes place” (paragraph 6).

Presentation

You can also access the full version of this presentation at this URL location.

References

DeWaard, H. (2022). Letting the light shine in: A tapestry of digital literacies in Canadian faculties of education. In L. Tomczyk & L. Fedeli (Eds.), Digital Literacy for Teachers. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-1738-7_8