Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

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“How do I embed digital literacy into my curriculum?” This is a question we are being asked more and more frequently and as such, I felt it would serve as a good topic for a #5MinuteReflection. In this post I’m going to cover some key things to consider when redesigning your curriculum to include more digital skills.

In this post, I refer a lot to the wonderful JISC resource on Digital Capability, if you haven’t already had a look at this resource, I strongly recommend checking it out.

About five years ago, decolonising the South African education and curriculum in higher education was a critical topic in the higher education space. How far have the efforts went into implementing this process?

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) was one of the universities that echoed the bells for transforming the curriculum into an inclusive mix of Eurocentric and Afrocentric education. In its vision statement, UJ is "an international University of choice, anchored in Africa, dynamically shaping the future". It further states that it is proudly South African and "alive down to its African roots, and well-prepared for its role in actualising the potential that higher education holds for the continent's development".

Does the everyday learning environment provide a range of supports to cater for student variability?

Universal Supports are those that exist in the learning environment, which the teacher does not have to think about or plan for daily. Thus, saving teachers time and energy.

They typically support Finance Assignment Help which are common to several learning activities. Universal Supports include the physical, emotional, and learning environment in the classroom as well as well-established systems and protocols that are so embedded they are simply ‘the way we do things around here’.