Palitha

Associate Professor at a UK university researching+teaching International Education, Technology-Enhanced Learning, and Distance Learning.

[Palitha @palithaed]

Enjoying @tbirdcymru 's talk on Social Media for Research and Collaboration :-)

[Terese Bird @tbirdcymru]

I'm sharing this with my students - learning to use X for education: -- start typing a hashtag, and you should see some pop up - such as #AI or #aiforeveryone

[Palitha @palithaed]

Great paper on AI by Mike Shaples @sharplm "Automated Essay Writing: An AIED Opinion" International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2022) 32:1119–1126
https://t.co/QP5jic3p5J

[Palitha @palithaed]

@Asif45072934 ok, Will do Asif.

[Palitha @palithaed]

#EDENchat

[Terese Bird @tbirdcymru]

Bringing @Rossparry @uniofleicslli @sarahknight into our digital literacy framework conversation for #EDENchat on 20 March eve led by @palithaed

[Palitha @palithaed]

#EDENchat

[Mayamin Altae ميامن الطائي @mayamin]

@awalmutairi2004 @palithaed A4 #EDENCHAT the two platforms that Iraqi teachers use for communication with their students and colleagues are Facebook and instagram

[Palitha @palithaed]

#EDENChat Thanks everyone for joining from 6 - 7pm CET. Thanks EDEN as well. See you soon again.

[Palitha @palithaed]

#EDENChat Many thanks. the paper that you have used to analyse ethical issue would be very useful.

[Terese Bird @tbirdcymru]

@palithaed A5 #EDENChat Just got into the issue of #ethics with @amendoonia - we need to carefully consider and find out what possible and maybe unexpected ethical implications to our research - always see/respect the human being there before us

[Palitha @palithaed]

@M_Aldash #EDENChat really good reflections.

[Palitha @palithaed]

Q.1 #EDENChat What are your experiences of teaching / researching “any aspect” of digital literacy skills? (if possible, focusing on digital literacy skills / practices? Please include URL for any theses, papers that you may have published. #EDENChat

[Palitha @palithaed]

#EDENChat

[محمد الدش Mohammed @M_Aldash]

@palithaed A1 #EDENChat Because I taught students in secondary schools that in a poor technology environment, I taught a lot of primitive skills in using technology. Much focused on how to search for information on the Internet.

[Palitha @palithaed]

#EDENChat Really useful thoughts. yes we need to consider how our methods might have an impact on the participants coming from different cultural heritages.

[Dr Shuhan Chen @ShuhanChen5]

@palithaed A5 #EDENChat It is important to learn the communicate styles of people from the specific culture. For instance, Chinese people might not always feel comfortable to join in a qualitative study if they are not familiar with the topic and the researcher.

[Palitha @palithaed]

@tbirdcymru @amendoonia #EDENChat That's really interesting and valuable ideas. not to forget ethics.

[Palitha @palithaed]

Q.5 #EDENChat LAST QUESTION! What are some of the methodological and ethical issues of researching digital literacy skills, when we begin to focus on the cultural context?

[Palitha @palithaed]

#EDENChat

[Terese Bird @tbirdcymru]

@palithaed A5 #EDENChat Just got into the issue of #ethics with @amendoonia - we need to carefully consider and find out what possible and maybe unexpected ethical implications to our research - always see/respect the human being there before us

[Palitha @palithaed]

#EDENChat Thanks... good to hear the digital literacy / technology perspective from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

[د.عواطف المطيري @awalmutairi2004]

@palithaed A4 #EDENChat In Saudi Arabia, many of lecturers use tweeter as social media sharing portal to keep their students engaged after the class, using amazing features offered by this portal: relevant hashtags, organising contests, provide useful resources.

[Palitha @palithaed]

A4 #EDENChat Another image showing some of the transitions that they went though, from China to UK. This is from Mengjie @gracejiang_ PhD work.

[Palitha @palithaed]

A4 #EDENChat These are some of the tool that our research participants reported that they use.

[Francesca @amendoonia]

@palithaed A2 in the @openVM_erasmus project it was realised a MOOC on "Media and Digital Literacy" as key competence to be engaged in Virtual Mobility #edenchat @mediendidaktik @diando70 @AntonellaPoce @MariaRosaria_Re

[Palitha @palithaed]

#EDENChat

[Dr Shuhan Chen @ShuhanChen5]

@palithaed A3 #EDENChat Chinese international students who are studying in the UK not only living in a new media environment, studying in second language would also change their digital media practices in education. For instance, the frequency of using digital English-Chinese Dictionary.

[Palitha @palithaed]

#EDENChat Lots of social media tools that quite a few of us not familar with.

[Dr Shuhan Chen @ShuhanChen5]

@palithaed A4#EDENChat I come from China, the most popular platforms could be WeChat, Weibo, Youku, Aiqiyi, Little Red Book. Recently, the live streaming apps are popular among youths, such as Kaishou, Tiktok.

[Palitha @palithaed]

Q.4 #EDENChat Thinking about cultural contexts, what are the main social media tools used in your own country / geopolitical region? And what about it China? If you use them, how / for what purpose?