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Sara MörtsellEducation Manager, Wikimedia Sverige
@SaraMrtsell#ONL161
Open Networked Learning
Digital Literacy
Engaging with Digital Media
Digital literacies are the capabilities we have to
engage with digitally mediated information, such as
dealing with the ubiquitous and interactive
quality of Digital Media.
Ubiquity Interaction
Examples to explore in today’s webinar
Example 1 - Filter bubble engagement.
Example 2 - Participation on Wikipedia.
Example 3 - Sharing with Creative Commons
Summary - Impact for teaching and learning
What is participation like in the Filter bubble?
Eli Pariser 2011.
By Kris Krug CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Who are the gate-keepers of digital information?
Personalisation and relevance based on algorithmic sorting.
Convenience and confirmation bias instead of a balanced information diet.
● Beware online “Filter Bubbles” (2011)● Escape your Search Engine’s Filter bubble - an
illustrated guide by DuckDuckGo
Participation on Wikipedia:“The Learning Black Market”
“It would appear that instead of teaching critical evaluation skills and helping learners to situate non-traditional resources within larger information-seeking frameworks, tutors commonly advise that platforms such as Wikipedia should be totally avoided, particularly true within the United States (US).”[1]
● Visitors and Residents:Credability● David White: The Learning Black Market 1 David White 2011.
Participation on Wikipedia
The Wikipedia Education Program
● Encourages a pedagogy about critiquing what’s wrong about information and
● act on the critique to redesign information and knowledge in open (public) digital spaces.
● Wikipedia assignments give students the skills to question unreliable information, rather than passively accept it.
Sharing knowledge as online engagement in education
Real world impact of student editors in
numbers -
114 000 views.
Sharing with Creative Commons
Understanding licenses as rights and responsibilities when engaging online.
C - All rights reserved
This is default
CC - Some rights reserved, and some rights given to others.
What is Open Content?
Free permission is given to engage in the 5R
activities.[2]
CC BY - Some rights reserved, and (five) rights given to others.
Reuse et cie 5R By Fréderic Duriez (modified) CC BY-3.0, via Formation et E-learning
2 Open Content definition opencontent.org
Creative Commons has six different licenses
Creative Commons Free Photos for Bloggers the Ultimate Guide by Foter.com licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (modified)
Summary and impact for teaching and learning
Digital literacies are contextual
Skills do not transfer automatically.[3]
visitor resident
personal
institutional
3 White, D., & Le Cornu, A. (2011). Visitors and Residents: A new
typology for online engagement. First Monday, 16(9).
Which activities go in this quandrant?
Finding activities for resident mode in institutional contexts
visitor resident
personal
institutional
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Wikipedia Education Program
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