digital fluencies: why, what & where we are
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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
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
Why it’s important
Why it’s important
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
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