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Digital literacies for a modern learning context
Gráinne Conole, Leicester University18th April 2012
School of Education, Plymouth Universityhttp://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/6197
Outline
• New technologies• Definition• Mapping to pedagogy• Importance• Implications
Discussion
• What are the characteristics of new technologies?
• What are their implications for learning, teaching and research?
Technologies• Transforming everything we do• New forms of communication
and collaboration• Multiple rich representations• Tools to find, create, manage,
share• Networked, distributed, peer
reviewed, open• Complex, dynamic and co-
evolvinghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanflynn/6638184545/
IPTS report
• Confident/critical use of technologies for work, leisure and communication
• Digital divide• The network is key• More participatory and
open practices
http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC67075_TN.pdf
Benefits
• Social• Health• Economic• Civic• Cultural• Societal
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediaquell/4329902002/
Issues• Personal safety/privacy• Responsible, ethical, legal • Understanding digital media• Inequalities
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29233640@N07/3668208527/
Discussion: What’s your digital network?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/195492568/
My network
Discussion: fb love it or hate it?
Pros Cons
Creativity: definition• Socio-cultural view of digital literacy - set
of social practices and meaning making of digital tools (Lankshear and Knobel, 2008)
• Continuum from instrumental skills to productive competence and efficiency
http://www.flickr.com/photos/r8r/4109502436/
Play
Performance
Simulation
Appropriation
Multitasking
Distributed cognition
Collective intelligence
Judgement
Transmedia navigation
Networking
Negotiation
Jenkins et al., 2006
Transmedia navigation
Distributed cognition
Salamon, 1993
Play
http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/swift/
Networking
Collective intelligence
http://www.flickr.com/photos/immaginoteca/4323915058/
Performance
Discussion
• What other examples are their of how these literacies can be fostered through new technologies?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluffgar/4327454383/
Creativity• Derived from Latin ‘creo’ to
create/make• Creating something new
(physical artefact or concept) that is novel and valuable
• Ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, partners, relationships and create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaxzine/2278300537/
Why is it important?• Essential skill to
deal with today’s complex, fast and changing society
• Discourse and collaboration are mediated through a range of social and participatory media
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jef_safi/370788912/
Aspects• Process: mechanisms needed
for creative thinking• Product: measuring creativity
in people• Person: general intellectual
habits (openness, ideas of ideation, autonomy, expertise, exploratory and behavioural)
• Place: best circumstances to enable creativity to flourish
Stages• Preparation: identifying
the problem• Incubation:
internalisation of the problem
• Intimation: getting a feeling for a solution
• Illumination: creativity burst forth
• Verification: idea is consciously verified, elaborated and appliedhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/williamcromar/5230835657/
iCreatNet
http://www.imv.au.dk/icreanet/
Creativity in design
Promise and reality
Social and participatory media offer new ways to communicate and collaborate
Wealth of free resources and tools
Not fully exploited
Replicating bad pedagogy
Lack of time and skills
Learning Design
Shift from belief-based, implicit approaches to design-
based, explicit approaches
Encourages reflective, scholarly practices
Promotes sharing and discussion
Learning DesignA design-based approach to creation and support of
courses
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OULDI/
ConsolidateEvaluate and embed your design
ConceptualiseWhat do we want to design, who for
and why?
http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/carpe-diem-the-7cs-of-design-and-delivery/
Carpe Diem:7Cs of learning Design
Course features
Linoit.com
Course map view
Resource audit
Story board
Importance
• Changing the nature of education
• New forms of communication and collaboration
• Rich multimedia reps• Harnessing the global
network
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10537908@N07/5904661557/
Implications
• Blurring boundaries• New business models• More open practices• Changing roles• Importance of new
digital literacy skills• Disruptive and
complexity
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssoosay/6738302627/
Conclusion
• Co-evolving• Disruptive• Unpredictable• Complex• New opportunities• Social
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/6239911583/
Good reads
http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/
http://memex.naughtons.org/
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/6197Conole, G. (forthcoming), Designing for learning in an open world, New York: Springer
Chapters available on [email protected]
