Global Society of Online Literacy Educators'
First International Online Conference | January 26, 2018
Keynote Speaker
Michelle Pacansky-Brock, EdD, author of Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies and a popular blog series (http://brocansky.com/blog), is the Keynote Speaker for GSOLE's inaugural Online Conference. Professor Panansky-Brock is in a professional development role that supports the entire California Community College System of 114 community colleges, where more than 20% of courses are online. Join us in learning from this renowned educator, trainer, and speaker!
Walking in the Cloud(s): Challenges for Online Literacy Instruction
Submissions Due Date: November 5, 2017
Acceptance Notification: By November 20, 2017 (download a .pdf of the CFP)
Media consumption has changed dramatically over the past ten years. Today, individuals are likely to do most of their reading online and to get most of their news online and through social media.i Time on mobile apps has doubled while television, computer and laptop time have all declined.ii Many regions have leapfrogged over wired devices all together, with Asia and Africa representing the largest percentage of mobile Internet usage worldwide; mobile Internet users are set to overtake traditional broadband users in the near future.iii
The way students learn also has been transformed by this growth of digital media. Seventy percent of preschoolers in the United Kingdom were using learning apps on a tablet device in 2015, and 65% of K-12 classrooms in the United States were making weekly use of an educational app.iv While institutions of higher education from Norway to Cambodia are investing in developing digital tools to better serve their students, the educational technology space is likewise crowded with companies hoping to come up with the latest ed-tech unicorn.
As educators of online literacy, this quickly changing and dizzying world presents a number of unique challenges for which online literacy educators--those who specialize in reading, alphabetic writing, and digital composition--are particularly well poised. We encourage submissions that focus on the online teaching and how the interaction of students and teachers are affected with this change of interface. We would like presenters to consider writing, reading and digital literacies for mobile learning and questions such as:
Proposals should be prepared for blind review, and therefore the authors' names and institutional affiliations should not appear within the proposal. Peer review will commence promptly after the submission deadline, and notifications will quickly follow.
Each proposal should include the following information:
A limited number of scholarships are available for international participants and attendees. If interested in applying for a scholarship, please indicate so in the text of your e-mail when submitting, or separately e-mail conferences.gsole@gmail.com for additional information.
Submissions Due Date: November 5, 2017
Acceptance Notification: By November 20, 2017 (download a .pdf of the CFP)
Media consumption has changed dramatically over the past ten years. Today, individuals are likely to do most of their reading online and to get most of their news online and through social media.i Time on mobile apps has doubled while television, computer and laptop time have all declined.ii Many regions have leapfrogged over wired devices all together, with Asia and Africa representing the largest percentage of mobile Internet usage worldwide; mobile Internet users are set to overtake traditional broadband users in the near future.iii
The way students learn also has been transformed by this growth of digital media. Seventy percent of preschoolers in the United Kingdom were using learning apps on a tablet device in 2015, and 65% of K-12 classrooms in the United States were making weekly use of an educational app.iv While institutions of higher education from Norway to Cambodia are investing in developing digital tools to better serve their students, the educational technology space is likewise crowded with companies hoping to come up with the latest ed-tech unicorn.
As educators of online literacy, this quickly changing and dizzying world presents a number of unique challenges for which online literacy educators--those who specialize in reading, alphabetic writing, and digital composition--are particularly well poised. We encourage submissions that focus on the online teaching and how the interaction of students and teachers are affected with this change of interface. We would like presenters to consider writing, reading and digital literacies for mobile learning and questions such as:
- How can we best meet the literacy needs of students reading texts and absorbing content from mobile devices?
- How can we teach online literacy practices to students who use these devices as a means of composing text (alphabetic text and multimodal projects)?
- In what ways do working in this media complicate the teaching of long-form print literacy?
- What do online literacy classes look like in a mobile environment using cloud-based applications?
- Sustainability
- Global Incorporation
- Delivery Systems
- Assessments
- Course Design
- Resources
- Training
- Curricular Considerations
- The Mobile Classroom
- Information Literacy in the Digital Age
- Making Digital Learning Accessible
- Using Mobile Apps for Literacy Instruction
- Quantitative Literacy and Online Sources
- The International Online Classroom
- Teaching Visual Literacy Online
- Fake News and the Classroom
- Incorporating Social Media into Online Literacy
- Innovative Technologies for Literacy Instruction
- Online College Students and Literacy Instruction Challenges
- Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Literacy Instruction
Proposals should be prepared for blind review, and therefore the authors' names and institutional affiliations should not appear within the proposal. Peer review will commence promptly after the submission deadline, and notifications will quickly follow.
Each proposal should include the following information:
- The submission’s title
- The abstract (up to 300 words)
- A list of keywords (10 maximum)
- The type of presentation (paper proposal or virtual poster proposal)
- Target audience (K-12, Higher Education, Developers, or Other)
A limited number of scholarships are available for international participants and attendees. If interested in applying for a scholarship, please indicate so in the text of your e-mail when submitting, or separately e-mail conferences.gsole@gmail.com for additional information.
iAmy Mitchell et al., “Pathways to News,” Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project, July 7, 2016, http://www.journalism.org/2016/07/07/pathways-to-news/; “U.S. Millennials Reading Habits 2015,” Statista, accessed August 27, 2017, https://www-statista-com.berea.idm.oclc.org/statistics/429619/millennials-reading-habits-usa/.
iiSarah Perez, “U.S. Consumers Now Spend 5 Hours per Day on Mobile Devices,” TechCrunch, accessed August 27, 2017, http://social.techcrunch.com/2017/03/03/u-s-consumers-now-spend-5-hours-per-day-on-mobile-devices/; “U.S. Average Daily Media Use 2016,” Statista, accessed August 27, 2017, https://www-statista-com.berea.idm.oclc.org/statistics/270781/average-daily-media-use-in-the-us/.
iii“Global Digital Population 2017,” Statista, accessed August 27, 2017, https://www-statista-com.berea.idm.oclc.org/statistics/617136/digital-population-worldwide/; “Share of Mobile Internet Traffic in Global Regions 2017,” Statista, accessed August 27, 2017, https://www-statista-com.berea.idm.oclc.org/statistics/306528/share-of-mobile-internet-traffic-in-global-regions/.
iv“UK: Learning App Usage among Preschoolers 2015,” Statista, accessed August 27, 2017, https://www.statista.com/statistics/481595/learning-app-usage-among-preschoolers-in-the-united-kingdom/; “U.S. Digital Learning Materials Usage 2016,” Statista, accessed August 27, 2017, https://www-statista-com.berea.idm.oclc.org/statistics/658475/us-classroom-digital-learning-materials-weekly-usage/.
iiSarah Perez, “U.S. Consumers Now Spend 5 Hours per Day on Mobile Devices,” TechCrunch, accessed August 27, 2017, http://social.techcrunch.com/2017/03/03/u-s-consumers-now-spend-5-hours-per-day-on-mobile-devices/; “U.S. Average Daily Media Use 2016,” Statista, accessed August 27, 2017, https://www-statista-com.berea.idm.oclc.org/statistics/270781/average-daily-media-use-in-the-us/.
iii“Global Digital Population 2017,” Statista, accessed August 27, 2017, https://www-statista-com.berea.idm.oclc.org/statistics/617136/digital-population-worldwide/; “Share of Mobile Internet Traffic in Global Regions 2017,” Statista, accessed August 27, 2017, https://www-statista-com.berea.idm.oclc.org/statistics/306528/share-of-mobile-internet-traffic-in-global-regions/.
iv“UK: Learning App Usage among Preschoolers 2015,” Statista, accessed August 27, 2017, https://www.statista.com/statistics/481595/learning-app-usage-among-preschoolers-in-the-united-kingdom/; “U.S. Digital Learning Materials Usage 2016,” Statista, accessed August 27, 2017, https://www-statista-com.berea.idm.oclc.org/statistics/658475/us-classroom-digital-learning-materials-weekly-usage/.
