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  1. Feb 2019
    1. Developing a strategic vision underpinned by institutional values and effective leadershipTranslating the vision into different strategies, policies and processes and taking a joined up approachProviding support services and opportunities which enable students and staff to develop their digital capabilitiesEnabling a supportive IT infrastructure which supports diverse digital practices and flexibilityPromoting a culture of innovation and change where staff and students at all levels are involved in strategic conversations around digital literacies and a range of engagement models are supportedReviewing current policies, processes and practices to better understand existing support for digital literacy and help prioritise areas for development

      good approach to supporting any kind of institutional cultural change

    2. seven elements

      Seven elements of digital literacy:

      • media literacy
      • information literacy
      • digital scholarship
      • learning skills
      • ICT (?) literacy
      • career and identity management
      • communications and collaboration
    3. Digital literacies are those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society.

      I like this, the idea of fitting someone for living in a digital society.

  2. Nov 2018
    1. the leftist politics and Jewish persuasion of many Bauhaus artists made it a prime target for the Nazis, who furthermore saw the school's internationalist philosophy as "anti-German."

      The Nazi Party's 25 points made this worldview clear at the beginning of the Weimar Republic.

    2. a vegetarian with a shaved head (remember, this was 1919!)

      Perhaps less common than today, but not unheard of back then, either (neither the vegetarianism nor the shaved head).

  3. Aug 2018
  4. Jul 2018
    1. This essay poses the question of how ‘Bildung’ can be narrated without following the script of maturation. In close readings of Stifter’s Brigitta and Nachsommer, the essay argues that these texts, by employing the notion of ‘sustainability’, develop moments of dynamics in stasis that open up the Bildungserzählung.

      But what does this mean, in practical terms?