digital literacies supporting learning
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Presentation given at workshop at Glyndwr University on 14 September 2011.TRANSCRIPT
Digital literacies
supporting learning
Glyndwr University 14/09/11
Lis ParcellJISC RSC Wales
Digital literacy: a Futurelab view
• “To be digitally literate is to have access to a broad range of practices and cultural resources that you are able to apply to digital tools. It is the ability to make and share meaning in different modes and formats; to create, collaborate and communicate effectively and to understand how and when digital technologies can best be used to support these processes.”
Futurelab: Digital literacy across the curriculumhttp://www.futurelab.org.uk/sites/default/files/Digital_Literacy_handbook_0.pdf
Futurelab: Aspects of digital literacy
Futurelab: Digital literacy across the curriculum http://www.futurelab.org.uk/sites/default/files/Digital_Literacy_handbook_0.pdf
What does digital literacy mean for your learners/customers?
“those capabilities which fit an individual
for living, learning and working in a
digital society“ (JISC)
Some more definitions
“the confident and critical use of ICT for
work, leisure, learning and communication“
(EU)
“Digital literacy is about mastering
ideas not keystrokes” (Paul Gilster)
JISC: some aspects of digital literacyICT literacy Information
literacyCommunication
and collaboration
Learning skills Life-planning Digital scholarship
Media literacy (7 possible ways of thinking about digital literacy in HE/FE according
to JISC)
Digital literacies: the need
• “Many learners enter further and higher education lacking the skills needed to apply digital technologies to education. As 90% of new jobs will require excellent digital skills, improving digital literacy is an essential component of developing employable graduates.” (JISC, 2011) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies.aspx
Digital literacies: the need
• “We need a better understanding of the digital literacies that students and staff need to take advantage of the new opportunities, and we need to integrate these in our programmes of study and continuing professional development.”
JISC, Emerging practice in a digital agehttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/digiemerge.aspx
Digital Wales – Digitally Literate Wales?
Source: Welsh Assembly Government
http://bit.ly/eaILKs
Learning Literacies for a Digital Age (LLiDA)
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Supporting Effective Learners in a Digital Age (SLiDA)
• “Digital literacies should be explicitly specified in learning and teaching strategies (although not necessarily using that terminology), contextualised for the discipline, embedded into the curriculum and mapped across all programmes.”
• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/slida.aspx
• 9 case studies https://wiki.brookes.ac.uk/display/slidacases/SLiDA+Home
Supporting effective learners in a digital age: learner-owned devices
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Supporting effective learners in a digital age:
Supporting effective learners in a digital age: Co-Lab
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Supporting effective learners in a digital age: Digital literacy as a graduate attribute
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Some recent and current projects• Yale College Wrexham E-safety project
http://www.yale-wrexham.co.uk/news_details.php?NewsID=348 • Using Peer Eguides to Support Digital Literacy (PEDL)• http://www.llandrillo.ac.uk/studentinformation/life/e-learning.aspx• PADDLE
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies/paddlellandrillo.aspx
• Digidol• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigita
lliteracies/DigiDol.aspx
• JISC Digital Literacies Programme #digilit• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigita
lliteracies.aspx
• JISC Digital Literacies workshop series (a Wales date is planned)• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/diglitworkshops
Emerging technologies & practice– Emerging practice in a Digital Age– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elea
rning/digiemerge.aspx
– JISC Mobile Learning Infokit https://mobilelearninginfokit.pbworks.com/w/page/41122430/Home
– JISC Mobile library projects imminent– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/mobilelibrary/ – Horizon Report 2011
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2011HorizonReport/223122
Some challenges – but also opportunities?
• Skills gaps• Personal/social vs educational uses of
technology• Transitions• Disciplinary differences• Changing staff roles• Ownership• Open information, data and content
A few ways to keep up to date
• Join JISCmail lists e.g.• JISC-DIGLIT-PUBLIC http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/jisc-diglit-public• JISC RSC Wales general mailing list (for our e-bulletin)• http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/elearning-wales
• Join ELESIG and its subgroups e.g.• http://elesig.ning.com/• http://elesig.ning.com/group/gwella • http://elesig.ning.com/group/eliteracies
• Twitter http://twitter.com #digilit
Lis ParcellSenior E-learning Advisor/HE Coordinator
[email protected]@lisparcell
http://www.delicious.com/lisparcell/digital_literacies
JISC RSC Waleswww.rsc-wales.ac.uk
[email protected] 01792 295959
@rscwales
Sharon CrossanE-learning Advisor
[email protected] 60 2451
01792 602451@libshari