ETUG Spring Workshop 2023 – Day 2.
9. Diane Thompson, Susan Bonham | Beyond the
ePortfolio: Enhancing digital literacy with PebblePad
Recorded
June 2, 2023
Digital literacy has become a critical skill for
students to succeed in the digital age. As educators, we must ensure that we
equip our students with the necessary digital literacy skills. The use of
technology such as PebblePad can aid in the integration and development of
digital literacy skills. This presentation aims to explore the integration of
digital literacy using PebblePad as the key technology. PebblePad is a digital
learning platform that offers various features to support learning and
assessment. PebblePad can be part of an institution-wide digital education
strategy to support effective personal learning and other innovative
technology-enhanced teaching. Specific examples will be highlighted to show how
we have used our ePortfolio tool (PebblePad) as a way of enhancing digital
literacy within specific courses at Langara College. Using PebblePad to
strengthen competencies related to digital writing and reading, the digital
design of content and materials, and the skills to edit, publish or share them
on the web will be demonstrated. The presentation will also provide some
practical and lived experience for participants on how Langara came to pilot
PebblePad as an educational tool with diverse uses. Reflecting on “What? So
what? Now what?” (Driscoll and The, 2001) in connection with this pilot, we
have identified important lessons.
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