digital fluencies: why, what & where we are

Digital FluenciesJuly 9, 2015

Today• Why bother?

• What do we hope to accomplish?

• What have we done & learned so far?

• What do you think?

• What’s next?

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Current state

It all started by looking at the variety of workshops offered @ Penn Libraries…

2015 Workshops

unique sessions

50+ 300+

total sessions

WIC, EC, Collab Classroom, Kislak, Health Sciences

Does not include special requests, CWP, BIs, etc.

WorkshopsCanvas Office Hours Canvas Basics Assessment and Grading in Canvas Respondus Browser BlueJeans Video and Web Conference Introduction to Google Apps Google Analytics for Social Media LinkedIn for Undergraduates Introduction to APIs: Flickr and Tumblr NVivo NVivo Advanced Queries NVivo for Literature Reviews Maker Space Event: Calendar Planning Introduction to 3D Printing Intro to SketchUp Intro to solidworks Introduction to Latex Introduction to Matlab Differential and Integral calculus with Matlab PowerPoint Basics Audio and Video in PowerPoint Prezi Excel Basics Excel Charts Excel Formulas and Functions Excel Pivot Tables Excel office hours

Unexpected Discovery: Serendipity in the Research Process Controlling Scholarship: Using Copyright Making Your Research Discoverable: Metadata, Scholarly Commons, Academia.edu and Researchgate

Using Metadata in Digital Humanities Research More Effectively

Creating and Describing an Online Exhibit Using the Omeka Platform

Early Books Collective

Tableau for Data Visualization Simple Mapping Tools

ArcGIS Basics

Synthesizing Sources in a Research Paper The Editing and Revising Process

Reasoning and Peer Review Zotero

RefWorks

Ready, Set. Succeed: Unpacking your last exam

WordPress Basics WordPress Advanced

iBooks Author

Editing Audio for Videos with Adobe Audition Publishing with Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator Basics

iMovie 10 Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro

Engaging Students Through Technology Lightning Round 2015

Faculty Active Learning Showcase: Increasing Student Engagement

Across the Disciplines

How do we make sense?

And why bother?

“We will expand our focus…to embrace a

wide spectrum of digital proficiencies that

everyone needs in order to be successful in our changing environment.”

“Think ‘library’ and programs to build digital and information fluency will also come to mind.”

p. 5

p. 10

ACRL, IFTF, JISC, NMC, Educause , MacArthur



Could we use digital fluencies as an organizing principle for our workshops and services?

WorkshopsCanvas Office Hours Canvas Basics Assessment and Grading in Canvas Respondus Browser BlueJeans Video and Web Conference Introduction to Google Apps Google Analytics for Social Media LinkedIn for Undergraduates Introduction to APIs: Flickr and Tumblr NVivo NVivo Advanced Queries NVivo for Literature Reviews Maker Space Event: Calendar Planning Introduction to 3D Printing Intro to SketchUp Intro to solidworks Introduction to Latex Introduction to Matlab Differential and Integral calculus with Matlab PowerPoint Basics Audio and Video in PowerPoint Prezi Excel Basics Excel Charts Excel Formulas and Functions Excel Pivot Tables Excel office hours

Unexpected Discovery: Serendipity in the Research Process Controlling Scholarship: Using Copyright Making Your Research Discoverable: Metadata, Scholarly Commons, Academia.edu and Researchgate

Using Metadata in Digital Humanities Research More Effectively

Creating and Describing an Online Exhibit Using the Omeka Platform

Early Books Collective

Tableau for Data Visualization Simple Mapping Tools

ArcGIS Basics

Synthesizing Sources in a Research Paper The Editing and Revising Process

Reasoning and Peer Review Zotero

RefWorks

Ready, Set. Succeed: Unpacking your last exam

WordPress Basics WordPress Advanced

iBooks Author

Editing Audio for Videos with Adobe Audition Publishing with Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator Basics

iMovie 10 Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro

Engaging Students Through Technology Lightning Round 2015

Faculty Active Learning Showcase: Increasing Student Engagement

Across the Disciplines

Can we bring order to our workshops & other strategic initiatives & services?

Future State

For a proof-of-concept, imagine that we could identify a few “big bucket” ideas & related basic, fundamental concepts

Cheat SheetFluency 1 Fluency 2 Fluency 3 Fluency 4

Definition Definition Definition Definition

Why it’s important




Key ideas Key ideas Key ideas Key ideas

Tools/Services Tools/Services Tools/Services Tools/Services

Maybe we could create something like this…

This would give us a common language & common framework for understanding emerging literacies.

We knew it could be dangerous, but we had to try!

What have we done?

April 2015 June 2015

1-hour

20 librarians

Actively teaching workshops & working with tools

Empathy maps

Definitions & key ideas

1-hour

15 librarians, 3 colleagues

Recommended by April group

Empathy maps

Definitions & key ideas

Undergrads, Grads, Faculty, Administrators, Librarians

Findings

Thinking? Not sure

Seeing? Different things

Hearing? Vastly different

Doing? Some overlap

Saying? Quite different

Feeling? …

Finally common ground. We are all stressed & overwhelmed.

So we got into the mindset of our community members.

Kindergarten language: Define a given

fluency & identify core concepts

Next activity:

Fluencies were derived from current programming: Digital Scholarship, Digital Pedagogy, Scholarly Participation, Info & Media Literacy

Here’s what different groups produced….

Info LiteracyThe reflective discovery of information and

the understanding of how it is created, valued, and ethically used.

Use research tools and indicators of authority to determine the credibility of sources

Articulate the traditional and emerging processes of information creation and dissemination

Summarize the changes in scholarly perspective over time

Give credit to the original ideas of others through proper attribution and citation

Media Fluency

The skills need to learn, create, distribute, and manage digital art.Images

Audio Video Text Visualization/infographics Modelling Web content & blogs Virus protection Copyright, ownership User experience (UX)

Specific software (Adobe products)

Specific hardware (Mac, Win, iPad, tablets,

phones, etc.)

Info & Media Literacy

The ability to find, analyze, and create qualitative and quantitative information.

3 Basic Concepts:

• Searching

• Evaluating

• Generating

Scholarly ParticipationThe production, consumption,

dissemination, or sharing of ideas.

Key concepts:• Awareness of publishing process • Audience engagement • Keeping current • Scholarship as dialogue

Building blocks:• Copyright/author rights • Publishing model

(e.g. Open Access, others) • Bibliometrics/Altmetrics • Data curation • Researcher profile • Citation management • Promotion of research through different

platforms • Research methodologies • Organizing outputs (yours and others’)

Scholarly CommunicationsWays in which researchers & others

share information about their work with others and learn about others’ work.

Key concepts:• Code of Ethics (copyright, reproducibility) • Dissemination (understanding implications of medium) • Consumption/Awareness (metadata/cataloging)

Digital Pedagogy

Using technology to teach and support student

learning.Understanding student behavior in the context of diversity Connecting students to support resources Willingness to learn and use new technologies to teach Using technology to help solve problems and make learning fun, engaging, and active

Effectively using (or not using) digital technology in an

educational environment.Effectively using (or not using) digital technology in an educational environment. Knowing when to learn & knowledge of conventions Discerning how/when to use technology Willingness and confidence to approach technology and to ask for help when needed Defining course goals Knowledge of tools and examples of how to use them Reflecting on success and failure, and a willingness to adapt based on those experiences

Digital ScholarshipResearch conducted or

presented through computers.Familiarity with platforms & tools:• coding & encoding (text mining) • mapping and GIS/mapping tools • visualization • distant & ultra-close reading • computational data analysis (scripts languages like

Python, R) • scholarly apparatus (annotation platforms, collaboration

tools) Data curation• Finding & collecting a corpus • Doing the preparatory work needed to analyze data sets • Rendering data • Reading code - follow, apply, adapt • Understanding the implications of the methods chosen • Save, store, structure data • Know the tools for learning -- how to use them and when

to interpret results

Using technology to ask & answer research questions

about a given body of information.

• Critical assessment of information • Knowing when & how to share scholarship • Formulating a good research question • Technical competencies • Developing a thesis & supporting evidence • Subject knowledge • Research skills

Don’t be fooled. This is difficult (aggravating) work.

It’s your turn…

The audience is asked to refine & improve definitions.

• Are there aspects of the definition or key concepts that you would add or strike?

• How would you more simply / accurately define the fluency?

Next steps… Refine definitions Identify key concepts Map wkshps & svcs Find gaps Share work


Thank you!


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digital fluencies: why, what & where we are

Education

latex introduction

solidworks introduction

undergraduates introduction

matlab powerpoint basics

web conference introduction

calendar planning introduction

video editing

research process