Developing Digital Literacy

Helen Beetham, Rhona Sharpe, Greg Benfield, Sarah Knight

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Venue

Why are we here?Digital Literacy

“digital literacy expresses the sum of capabilities an individual needs to live, learn and work in a digital society”

•what capabilities will your graduates need in the C21st?•what challenges do they face in developing them?•how can you help them develop literacies of/for the digital?

Maps of the territory

Programme of the day – activities! – we will capture and share

Reflective pro-forma for you to take away

Twitter/blog tag #JISCdiglit

Delegate list – follow people up

Online materials:

http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/.../digital-literacy .../JISC-Digital-Literacy-Workshop-materials

available under CC (by-sa) license for repurposing and reuse

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Activity

1. Label your diagram with key features of a 'digitally literate graduate'

2. Use terms and ideas that will be familiar in your institution, subject area, or setting

3. There will be opportunities to add and refine your ideas during this session

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Why is this an issue now?Digital Literacy

Impacts of digital mediaon knowledge

New demands on education

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'New ways of knowing'

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'New ways of knowing'

Transfer of attention from print to screen

Multiplicity of media: hyperlinked and hybrid media

Blurred boundaries of information/communication

Ubiquitous access to information and to connected others

Routine surveillance and capture of processes/events

Networked societies and interest groups

Power of the crowd (web 2.0, massive social data sets)

Offloading of cognitive tasks onto digital tools and networks

Presentation of self in digital contexts

Open scholarship and open publishing

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Using 'ways of knowing' to expand your characterisation of a digitally literate learner.

What kinds of expertise and know-how?

How is it expressed and shared?

What new data is being captured and managed?

What does innovation look like?

What does it mean to be critical?

What forms of judgement are needed?

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What are graduate attributes?Digital Literacy

‘These attributes include, but go beyond, the disciplinary expertise or technical knowledge that has traditionally formed the core of most university courses.

They are ability, dispositions, qualities which enable knowledge gained to be translated into a discipline and work place context.

Bowden, J., Hart, G., King, B., Trigwell, K., & Watts, O. (2000) Generic capabilities of ATN university graduates, Canberra: Australian Government Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs

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What are graduate attributes?

Why graduate attributes?

‘qualities that prepare graduates as agents of social good in an unknown future.’ (Bowden et al, 2000)

‘attributes that help prepare our students to tackle the ever evolving challenges facing them during and at the end of their studies’ (University of Edinburgh)

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An example: Oxford Brookes University

Five graduate attributes agreed at Oxford Brookes University.

Digital literacy defined as… The functional access, skills and

practices necessary to become . . . a confident, agile adopter of a range of

technologies for personal, academic and professional use.

(https://wiki.brookes.ac.uk/display/slidacases/Oxford+Brookes)

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An example: University of Wolverhampton

Three graduate attributes at University of Wolverhampton

Digital literacy defined as our graduates will be confident users of

advanced technologies; they will lead others, challenging convention by exploiting the rich sources of connectivity digital working allows.

(https://wiki.brookes.ac.uk/display/slidacases/Wolverhampton)

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Using graduate attributes to expand your characterisation of your digitally literate learner.

What What for? What context?

confidence exploit technology

professional

agility challenge convention

personal

communicative

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