Deeper understanding - the key to deepening
digital literacy?
Sarah Horrigan and Laura HollinsheadUniversity of Derby
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‘Digital literacy’?
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“digital literacy defines those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society”
- JISC, 2011
DIGITALLITERACY Attributes/
identities
Practices
Skills
Functional access
DIGITAL LITERACY FRAMEWORK, Beetham and Sharpe (2010)
Are
wedigitallyliterate?
What questions
should we ask?
Background
• Threshold standard• Benchmarking• ‘Improving the quality of eLearning’
What
are
we
really
doing?
University of DerbyThreshold Standards
Blackboard ExemplaryCourse Program Rubric
3Es Framework (2011)Edinburgh Napier University
Analysis
Design
Testing
Standardisation
Application
THE
PROCESS
WHAT DID WE
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LOTS OF
TUMBLEWEEDMOMENTS
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LOTS OF
“STUFF”
NOT LOTS OF
INTERACTION
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THE PARADOX OF PRACTICE
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THE PARADOX OF
PRIORITY
THE PARADOX OF
CONFORMITY
… AND DIGITALLITERACY? Attributes/
identities
Practices
Skills
Functional access
DIGITAL LITERACY FRAMEWORK, Beetham and Sharpe (2010)
… WE FOUNDGAPS…
DIGITAL LITERACY FRAMEWORK, Beetham and Sharpe (2010)
?Practices
?Functional access
SO
WHAT CAN WE
DOABOUT ALL THIS?
Talkto our academic
community
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Review
the Threshold
Standards
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Prioritise
the Threshold
Standards
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Promote
the Threshold
Standards
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Facilitate
via design of the
system
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Develop
digital practice
skills
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Repeat
to deepen
understanding
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Deeper understanding - the key to deepening
digital literacy?
Sarah Horrigan and Laura HollinsheadUniversity of Derby
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