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Tudou, Weibo and Renren are the Chinese equivalents of YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.The social media forms were one of the topics addressed by an e-learning expert in our Faculty of Education when he presented a seminar in China recently.

Winner of several local and national teaching awards, Assistant Professor Mark Pegrum is becoming well-known on the world stage.

The Beijing seminar, for 450 teachers, was held during the Chinese Ministry of Education’s National Teacher Training Week.

Assistant Professor Pegrum’s research is on the (increasing) integration of web 2.0 and mobile technologies into everyday life. His current work concentrates on the growing field of digital literacies, especially network literacy (including personal learning environments, personal learning networks and e-portfolios), and m-learning (including the use of smartphones, tablets and apps with educational benefits).

He is co-editor and author of books Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education and the Internet and From Blogs to Bombs: The Future of Digital Technologies in Education ( UWA Publishing ) and his book on digital literacies, co-authored with Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly, will be published next year.

“In our new book, we argue that it’s possible to acquire digital literacies at the same time as you acquire language and more traditional literacy skills, and that’s the message I delivered in my seminar.”

Published in UWA News , 29 October 2012