Information Literacy

Technology Fluency

FIT at

Simmons

College

Timeline

• FIT Task Force

• Model

• Rubric

2004-5Forming

• First Assessment

• Results Presentedto Faculty

2006Case Making

• SATV

• Fluency Establishedas Priority

2007 Prioritizing

• IncomingAssessment

• iComp Resource

• iComp Workshops

• FIT Course

2008Implementing

2004-5 Forming

Information Literacy• Information Science

• Information Architecture

• Intellectual Property

• Online Research

Technology• Information Storage

and Retrieval

• Systems, Abstraction,

and Modeling

• Algorithmic

thinking

• Security/

Privacy

Media Literacy• Semiotics / Linguistics

• Art / Media Studies

• Communications

• Philosophy/Ethics

• Cultural Studies

• Anthropology

•Education

•Sociology

2004-5 Rubric

Intellectual Capabilities Personal Interpersonal Professional Societal

Concepts Skills

2006 Case Making

56

34

29

26

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Selected Fake Site (incorrect) Selected NSF (correct) Selected NSF for Appropriate

Reasons

Not Sure

You are doing background research for a science project.

In addition to perusing library sources, you decide to go online to see what's available.

2006 Case Making

Only 24% Selected the Appropriate Site for the Correct Reasons

2007 Prioritizing

Shared

Academic

Technology

Vision

Student

fluencyFaculty

fluencyRoles &

rewards

Discipline-

specific

technologies Innovation and

emerging technologies

Online learning

and distance education

Learning

environments

Learning

management system

2008 Implementing

Is this your first year as an undergraduate student? Then your iComps are right around the corner in March.

What can you do to prepare? Learn at your own pace in Simmons eLearning (IT 001 iComps) or sign up for workshops to help you prepare for the exam.

Advice & Challenges

Advice Listen, CollaborateMake the Case, Educate Prioritize, Incorporate

Challenges Resources ($ and People) Continuity in Changing Leadership

Advice & Challenges

Biggest Challenge: Assessment

When we cannot measure what is important, we make important what we

can measure.

That Was Then …

This is Now

That Was Then …

This is NowPlayPerformanceSimulationVisualization

AppropriationTransmedia NavigationDistributed CognitionCollective Intelligence

JudgmentMultitaskingNetworking Negotiation

VisualizationHenry Jenkins

That Was Then …

This is Now

AttentionParticipationCollaborationNetwork awarenessCritical consumption(a.k.a. crap detection)

Howard Rheingold

That Was Then …

This is Now

Partnership for 21st Century Skills