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Digital Literacy for Effective Communication in the New Academic Environment: The Educational Blogs

Digital Literacy for Effective Communication in the New Academic Environment: The Educational Blogs

Ruxandra Vasilescu, Manuela Epure, Nadia Florea
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781466628519|ISBN10: 1466628510|EISBN13: 9781466628526
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2851-9.ch018
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Vasilescu, Ruxandra, et al. "Digital Literacy for Effective Communication in the New Academic Environment: The Educational Blogs." Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges, edited by Bogdan Pătruţ, et al., IGI Global, 2013, pp. 368-390. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2851-9.ch018

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Vasilescu, R., Epure, M., & Florea, N. (2013). Digital Literacy for Effective Communication in the New Academic Environment: The Educational Blogs. In B. Pătruţ, M. Pătruţ, & C. Cmeciu (Eds.), Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges (pp. 368-390). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2851-9.ch018

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Vasilescu, Ruxandra, Manuela Epure, and Nadia Florea. "Digital Literacy for Effective Communication in the New Academic Environment: The Educational Blogs." In Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges, edited by Bogdan Pătruţ, Monica Pătruţ, and Camelia Cmeciu, 368-390. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2851-9.ch018

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Abstract

“The fixity” of knowledge - the accumulation of fixed elements of knowledge - no longer meets the requirements of nowadays society. The capacity of change, adaptation, and constant updating of these elements according to individual needs, but also to the needs of the various contexts the knowledge, must be used as a prerequisite of social integration for the graduate. Education stepped into the era of deep reforms based on new concepts: student-centered learning, informal education, and personal learning environment. Thus, to teach means to model and to demonstrate; to learn means to practice and to consider. The information technology provides the new student with the learning environment he/she needs in the new context, and it connects him/her rapidly to the up-to-date information and to the rest of the world. Finding new ways of recreating student community on the background of the change of the student structure, the profile of the new student, his/ her interests and individual learning habits, on the one hand, and the main challenges of the workforce training/retraining for the current and future information society, on the other hand are the main concerns of this chapter. Due to the spectacular extension of the Internet use, the blog is a solution for the development of the student community, for social interaction and serves as an alternative or extension of classroom discourse.

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