Closing the Page on Foo-Foo the Snoo
Channel: Mark Brown
Date: 2023-01-30

What’s Next for the Digital Education Playlist?

This paper reports the 7th edition of the annual NIDL top 10 “good reads” in Digital Education. In sharing the 2022 curated playlist of good reads, the paper illustrates several new and emerging trends in the literature and the diverse nature of open scholarship. Reflecting on seven years of this exercise, the paper asks: how can we better engage busy educators in critically reading and reviewing the published literature to bridge theory and research with practice and back again? Metaphorically speaking, taking inspiration from Dr Seuss (1978), the intention is to look beyond 'Foo-Foo Snoo' by exploring new digital possibilities for engaging time-poor educators, researchers and policy-makers in critical analysis of the literature. In rising to this challenge, a new initiative designed to spotlight fresh reads and develop a readers collective in the field of Digital Education is reported. Feedback is sought on different ways of extending this initiative to foster critical conversations that help keep abreast of the literature, including developing a digital education journal club. A brief synopsis of educational research on journal clubs is provided as we consider how to close the page on 'Foo-Foo Snoo' through more engaging and innovative platforms to support professional reading.