Digital Literacies: In

Professional Practice

Digital Literacy: it is a mindset

• Looks beyond functional IT skills

• Rich set of digital behaviours

• Changes over time & across contexts

• Diverse and changing technologies

Developing Digital Literacies JISC (2014)

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Digital disruption

• Focus on being good at collaboration to

create a great member experience

• Invest in great staff & let them learn

• Get lean – fail fast & fail forward

• Give people a higher purpose

Digital disruption in Australia: A guide for entrepreneurs, investors and Corporations,

Nick Abrahams

Fundamental disruption

• Move from

• Curation, information providers

• Move to

• Enabling for creation, learning

and innovation

• With

• Collaborative & personalized

approach

Digitally empowered members

• Well connected

• Empowered

• Ready to learn

• Want to share

• Want to create

The future customer

• 12 Year old app developer

Start-up culture in the library

• Voice and choice

• Flexibility

• Personality

• Fun

Create a Startup Culture in Your Classroom Jennifer Williams June 24 2016

Intentional Design

• Genius hour

• Ted talks

• Real world scenarios

• Long term focused projects

• Constant state of Beta

Opportunities

• Learning happy hour

• Pilot something, learn, fail forward,

• Don’t forget to kill it off

• Get on social media

• Blog it

• Share what you learn