the essential elements of digital literacies
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A presentation to the Association of Independent Schools of New South Wales (Australia) ICT Managers Conference 2011.TRANSCRIPT
THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF DIGITAL LITERACIES
DOUGBELSHAW
DOUGBELSHAW.COM
THE ARGUMENTIN ONE SLIDE1. THERE ARE 8 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF DIGITAL LITERACIES2. DEFINITIONS NEED TO BE CO-CREATED TO HAVE POWER3. GET STARTED! (THERE’S PLENTY OF RESOURCES TO HELP YOU)
WHAT ARE DIGITAL LITERACIES?
8 ELEMENTS OF DIGITAL LITERACIES
DIGITAL LITERACIES IN YOUR CONTEXT
OVERVIEW5-STEP PROCESS MODEL
CONCLUSION
@DAJBELSHAW
#DIGILIT
PART IWHAT ARE DIGITAL LITERACIES?
SAME WORD
DIFFERENT MEANING
CC BY-NC-SA sparkieblues
DIFFERENT WORD
SAME MEANING
DO WE EVENKNOW WHATLITERACYIS, ANYWAY?
Literacy is a characteristic acquired by
individuals in varying degrees from just above
none to an indeterminate upper level. Some
individuals are more or less literate than
others but it is really not possible to speak of
illiterate and literate persons as two distinct
categories.” (UNESCO, 1957)
“[Literacy as] independent
of and impartial towards
trends and struggles in
everyday life.”(Street, 1984)
“[Literacy as] an active
relationship or a way of
orienting to the social
and cultural world.”(Lankshear, 1999)
AUTONOMOUS IDEOLOGICAL
MEDIALITERACY
INFOCOMM
DIGITALKOMPETANSE
DIGITALMEDIALITERACY
INFORMATIONLITERACY
DIGITALMEDIALITERACY
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ACADEMICSLIKE THEIRUMBRELLATERMS
Text
“Digital literacy is a complex and contested term. It is often understood as the ability to participate in a range of critical and creative practices that involve understanding, sharing and creating meaning with different kinds of technology and media.” (2010:3)
http://futurelab.org.uk/resources/school-approaches-developing-students-digital-literacy
Text
What are digital literacies? How does it relate to my practice?
http://futurelab.org.uk/resources/digital-literacy-professional-development-resource
Planning activitiesActivities for the classroom
PART II5-STEPPROCESS MODEL
Text
Resources created for Becta before it was abolished.
http://www.timmuslimited.co.uk/archives/117
5-step process model: Define, Access, Understand & Evaluate, Create, Communicate
http://www.slideshare.net/TabethaNewman/digital-literacy-literature-review-from-terminology-to-action
8Cs
http://www.slideshare.net/TabethaNewman/digital-literacy-literature-review-from-terminology-to-action
http://www.slideshare.net/TabethaNewman/digital-literacy-literature-review-from-terminology-to-action
Q. WHAT KIND OF TOOLSARE HELPFUL HERE?
FLICKRWIKIPEDIA
MS WORD
8Cs
PART III8 ELEMENTSOF DIGITAL LITERACIES
CoCommunicative
CuCultural
CgCognitive
CnConstructive
CiCivic
CrCreative
CfConfident
CtCritical
THE 8 ELEMENTSOF DIGITAL LITERACIES
CuCultural
“The nature of literacy in a culture is repeatedly redefined as the result of technological changes.”
Hannon (2000)
THE 8 ELEMENTS
“Functional internet literacy is not the ability to use a set of technical tools; rather, it is the ability to use a set of cognitive tools.”
Johnson (2008)
CgCognitive
THE 8 ELEMENTS
“[Digital literacy is] the awareness, attitude and ability of individuals to appropriately use digital tools...in order to enable constructive social action.”
DigEuLit project, quoted in Martin (2006)
CnConstructive
THE 8 ELEMENTS
“Digital literacy must therefore involve a systematic awareness of how digital media are constructed and of the unique 'rhetorics' of interactive communication.”
Buckingham (2007)
CoCommunicative
THE 8 ELEMENTS
“Modern society is increasingly looking to [people] who can confidently solve problems and manage their own learning throughout their lives, the very qualities which ICT supremely is able to promote.”
OECD (2001)
CfConfident
THE 8 ELEMENTS
“The creative adoption of new technology requires teachers who are willing to take risks... a professional culture that is dominated by a prescriptive curriculum, routine practices... and a tight target-setting regime, is unlikely to be helpful.”
Conlon & Simpson (2003)
CrCreative
THE 8 ELEMENTS
“Once we see that online texts are not exactly written or spoken, we begin to understand that cyberliteracy requires a special form of critical thinking. Communication in the online world is not quite like anything else.”
Gurak (2001)
CtCritical
THE 8 ELEMENTS
“The ability to understand and make use of ICT - digital literacy - is proving essential to employment success, civic participation, accessing entertainment, and education.”
Mehlman (2007)
CiCivic
THE 8 ELEMENTS
RANK THESE IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE
CoCommunicative
CuCultural Cg
Cognitive
CnConstructive
CiCivic
CrCreativeCf
Confidence
CtCritical
“And, whilst it may be possible to produce lists of the components
of digital literacy, and to show how they fit together, it is not
sensible to suggest that one specific model of digital literacy will
be appropriate for all people or, indeed, for one person over all
their lifetime. Updating of understanding and competence will be
necessary as individual circumstances change, and as changes in
the digital information environment bring the need for new fresh
understanding and new competencies; as Martin (2006a) puts it,
digital literacy is "a condition, not a threshold".” (Bawden, 2008)
GESTURESJoão Machadohttp://vimeo.com/7338692
SHOULDWE TEACH(CONCEPTUAL)SHORTCUTS?
PART 4DIGITAL LITERACIESIN YOUR CONTEXT
CC BY-SA [nev]
DIGITAL LITERACY PRACTICES
CHANGE
EVEN IF YOU DON’T QUITE UNDERSTAND THEM
CC BY-NC-SA Alain Bachellier
JOI ITO(formerly of Creative Commons, now Executive Director of MIT Media Lab)
WHAT DO DIGITAL LITERACIES DEPEND UPON?
CC BY chwalker01 CC BY queefette
CC BY zebedee.zebedee
LOLCATSAN INTERNET MEME
CC BY queefette
CC BY zebedee.zebedee
CC BY-NC-SA dantekgeek
WHICH ELEMENTS ARE INVOLVED HERE?WHAT IS PRESUPPOSED?
RADIUS OFINTEREST
RADIUS OFOPPORTUNITY
WHAT’S
HERE?
INDIVIDUALINTEREST
EDUCATIONALINSTITUTIONS
DIGITAL
LITERACIES
WHICH DIGITAL LITERACIES PRACTICES SHOULD THE AVERAGE
14 YEAR-OLD BE FAMILIAR WITH?
PROCEDURAL
INDIVIDUAL
CRITICAL
SOCIAL
(EDITING)
WE NEED TO DEVELOP
SKILLS IN ALL 4 ZONES
? ?
CONCLUSIONHAS YOUR PERCEPTIONOF DIGITAL LITERACIES
CHANGED?(NOT STRAIGHTFORWARD, ARE THEY?)
THE ARGUMENTIN ONE SLIDE1. THERE ARE 8 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF DIGITAL LITERACIES2. DEFINITIONS NEED TO BE CO-CREATED TO HAVE POWER3. GET STARTED! (THERE’S PLENTY OF RESOURCES TO HELP YOU)
DOUGBELSHAW
DOUGBELSHAW.COM