Digital Literacies for Academia, Employability and Active
CitizenshipVicky GrantHead of Library Learning ServicesPete
MellaLearning TechnologistCaterina SciamannaLibrary Digital Skills
Coordinator
Vic to introduce us
Image by JISC reproduced under the CC BY-NC-ND licenceJISC
(2014) Developing digital literacies [online], available:
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-digital-literacies
[accessed 08 March 2016].
VicLots of models about. Here is one from JISC which we
critiqued at our digital lteracy away day. We also looked at Doug
Belshaws work. Doug wrote his EdD thesis on digital literacies. We
will look at some of his work later. Whats interesting is that his
focus is very conceptual. #
Finding
Reading
Questioning
Managing
Creating
Communicating
Which digital tools do you use for these information
literacies?Information and digital literacy for academia,
employability and for active digital citizenship
VicWe have looked at these different models and created our
ownWe wanted to keep a focus on the learning (the literacies) These
give us some stability - the digital landscape is very fluid but
what our students are doing fundamentally (broadly creating
critiquing and consuming knowledge) is relatively stable.
This one defines the literacies, why and whatCreating
information is emerging as a key activity in our University
Libraries. Today we have a number of exercises that requires skills
of creating, finding and managing in the context of using images in
assessment#
In this sessionWhat does assessment look like?Do students have
the literacies to support this?Image taskConclusions* The
University of Sheffield
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What does assessment look like?On your tables, after a short
discussion, draw an image of what assessment looks like to you. You
can be as literal or metaphorical as you like!
You have 10 minutes.* The University of Sheffield
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Whats the word count of an image?University of Sheffield
Student
Dont use third party images, its too complicatedUniversity of
Sheffield Lecturer The University of Sheffield
Vic Here are two quotes which communicate the tensions around
different forms of assessment and the need to engage and support
these information and digital literacies amongst both our staff and
our students.
What information, academic and digital literacies are needed to
support this?
You are given an assignment to the following, as a group:Produce
a creative image that represents the estimated future population of
10bn people, and the challenges this would bring to the world.
In groups of 4 5 people, discuss what literacies do students
need to support this task?Add your ideas to
Padlet:https://padlet.com/p_mella/literacies
* The University of Sheffield
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Subject knowledge blended with information, academic and digital
literacy including:
Information skillsGeneral IT skillsImage sourcingKnowledge of
specific image softwareArtistic skill
Knowledge of copyright/IPAwareness of
plagiarismEthicsTeam-workDelegationDigital footprint* The
University of Sheffield
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Copyright issuesCopyright is an automatic right granted to
protect creators intellectual property.Infringing copyright is a
criminal offence.Something being openly available on the Internet
does not make it Public Domain!* The University of Sheffield
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When you can use materialExpired copyrightFair dealingCriticism
& ReviewReporting of factual eventsIncidental
usageExaminationsCreative Commons
* The University of Sheffield
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Creative Commons (CC)0 Effectively Public DomainAttribution
Requires a creditNon Commercial Cant be used for commercial
purposesNo Derivative Works Cant be remixed in any wayShare Alike
Can be remixed, but whats created must also be released with a CC
License.
* The University of Sheffield
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PlagiarismEven if something is used correctly via Public Domain
or a Creative Commons 0 License, it must still be credited
academically.Audiovisual citation guidelines -
http://bufvc.ac.uk/projects-research/avcitationDeveloping Library
Harvard referencing tutorial
* The University of Sheffield
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Now youre the studentAssignment: Produce a creative image that
represents the estimated future population of 10bn people, and the
challenges this would bring to the world.Task: In your groups find
two images for the project, using the sites suggested or others
that you are familiar with. You might find this doc usefulPost your
images on the Padlet wall:https://padlet.com/p_mella/images
* The University of Sheffield
PeteCaterina to share handout
Information and digital literacy for digital
citizenshipEssential elements of digital literacies
Belshaw, D. (2012) The essential elements of digital literacies:
Doug Belshaw at TEDxWarwick [online], available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yQPoTcZ78 [accessed 08 March
2016].Image used with the authors permission
VicDoug talks about the essential elements of digital literacy.
And about how these relate to remixing messages.He gives some
frivolous examples but then says that these things can be used
seriously and for real social good. Student occupation at the
University of California Davis. How imagery was used to represent
pepper spraying.
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Licht, M. 2016. Brexit. [Online] Accessed 27 June 2016.
Available from www.flickr.com. CC BY
Heres a more topical example. What does this represent? Two
things that have stood out to me about the referendum is that
people have said that they were not well informed. But also that
the the people who wanted to remain, including many of my
colleagues in the University, they didnt expect the Brexit. If, as
a society, we had better information and digital literacy and if we
could communicate our beliefs more effectively would we be better
digital citizens?#
Find out more by visiting our blog
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