Digital literacies

supporting learning

Glyndwr University 14/09/11

Lis ParcellJISC RSC Wales

Digital literacy: a Futurelab view

• “To be digitally literate is to have access to a broad range of practices and cultural resources that you are able to apply to digital tools. It is the ability to make and share meaning in different modes and formats; to create, collaborate and communicate effectively and to understand how and when digital technologies can best be used to support these processes.”

Futurelab: Digital literacy across the curriculumhttp://www.futurelab.org.uk/sites/default/files/Digital_Literacy_handbook_0.pdf

Futurelab: Aspects of digital literacy

Futurelab: Digital literacy across the curriculum http://www.futurelab.org.uk/sites/default/files/Digital_Literacy_handbook_0.pdf

What does digital literacy mean for your learners/customers?

“those capabilities which fit an individual

for living, learning and working in a

digital society“ (JISC)

Some more definitions

“the confident and critical use of ICT for

work, leisure, learning and communication“

(EU)

“Digital literacy is about mastering

ideas not keystrokes” (Paul Gilster)

JISC: some aspects of digital literacyICT literacy Information

literacyCommunication

and collaboration

Learning skills Life-planning Digital scholarship

Media literacy (7 possible ways of thinking about digital literacy in HE/FE according

to JISC)

Digital literacies: the need

• “Many learners enter further and higher education lacking the skills needed to apply digital technologies to education. As 90% of new jobs will require excellent digital skills, improving digital literacy is an essential component of developing employable graduates.” (JISC, 2011) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies.aspx

Digital literacies: the need

• “We need a better understanding of the digital literacies that students and staff need to take advantage of the new opportunities, and we need to integrate these in our programmes of study and continuing professional development.”

JISC, Emerging practice in a digital agehttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/digiemerge.aspx

Digital Wales – Digitally Literate Wales?

Source: Welsh Assembly Government

http://bit.ly/eaILKs

Learning Literacies for a Digital Age (LLiDA)

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Supporting Effective Learners in a Digital Age (SLiDA)

• “Digital literacies should be explicitly specified in learning and teaching strategies (although not necessarily using that terminology), contextualised for the discipline, embedded into the curriculum and mapped across all programmes.”

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/slida.aspx

• 9 case studies https://wiki.brookes.ac.uk/display/slidacases/SLiDA+Home

Supporting effective learners in a digital age: learner-owned devices

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Supporting effective learners in a digital age:

Supporting effective learners in a digital age: Co-Lab

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Supporting effective learners in a digital age: Digital literacy as a graduate attribute

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Some recent and current projects• Yale College Wrexham E-safety project

http://www.yale-wrexham.co.uk/news_details.php?NewsID=348 • Using Peer Eguides to Support Digital Literacy (PEDL)• http://www.llandrillo.ac.uk/studentinformation/life/e-learning.aspx• PADDLE

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies/paddlellandrillo.aspx

• Digidol• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigita

lliteracies/DigiDol.aspx

• JISC Digital Literacies Programme #digilit• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigita

lliteracies.aspx

• JISC Digital Literacies workshop series (a Wales date is planned)• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/diglitworkshops

Emerging technologies & practice– Emerging practice in a Digital Age– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elea

rning/digiemerge.aspx

– JISC Mobile Learning Infokit https://mobilelearninginfokit.pbworks.com/w/page/41122430/Home

– JISC Mobile library projects imminent– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/mobilelibrary/ – Horizon Report 2011

http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2011HorizonReport/223122

Some challenges – but also opportunities?

• Skills gaps• Personal/social vs educational uses of

technology• Transitions• Disciplinary differences• Changing staff roles• Ownership• Open information, data and content

A few ways to keep up to date

• Join JISCmail lists e.g.• JISC-DIGLIT-PUBLIC http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/jisc-diglit-public• JISC RSC Wales general mailing list (for our e-bulletin)• http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/elearning-wales

• Join ELESIG and its subgroups e.g.• http://elesig.ning.com/• http://elesig.ning.com/group/gwella • http://elesig.ning.com/group/eliteracies

• Twitter http://twitter.com #digilit

Lis ParcellSenior E-learning Advisor/HE Coordinator

e.j.parcell@swansea.ac.uk@lisparcell

http://www.delicious.com/lisparcell/digital_literacies

JISC RSC Waleswww.rsc-wales.ac.uk

support@rsc-wales.ac.uk 01792 295959

@rscwales

Sharon CrossanE-learning Advisor

s.crossan@swansea.ac.uk01792 60 2451

01792 602451@libshari