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Page 1: What’s in a name? Defining and developing information and digital literacies through Enquiry-Based Learning by Tund Varga-Atkins, Emma Thompson, Simon Snowden given at JISC Learning

What’s in a name?

Defining and developing information and digital literacies through Enquiry-Based Learning (EBL)

Simon Snowden, Emma Thompson, Tünde Varga-AtkinsUniversity of Liverpool

17th October 2013, JISC Learning and Teaching Experts

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OutlinePartnership approach – for developing

digital/info literacies

What’s in a name – definitions of information/digital literacies

What we did  Our findings

Definitions – help or hinder?Partnerships as enablers

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Partnership

Emma Thompson

The librarian

The academic

The learning technologist

Tünde Varga-Atkins

Simon Snowden

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Definitions (whose?)

information literacy

digital literacies

Students : explicitly needed to reflect on these

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Partnership approach – for developing digital/info literacies

What’s in a name – definitions of information/digital literacies

What we did  Our findings

Definitions – help or hinder?Partnerships as enablers

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What we didWhat we did

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Searching for resources

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Student-led research with guidance

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Digital Den?

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Digital literacies: towards a Wikipedia article

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Information literacyCurrency.. Reliability... Authority... Purpose/Point of View

CRAP

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Your experience of definitions

What is your elevator pitch about information literacy / digital literacies? What has worked? Interested others?

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Partnership approach – for developing digital/info literacies

What’s in a name – definitions of information/digital literacies

What we did  Our findings

Definitions – help or hinder?Partnerships as enablers

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Our Data

• Focus group• Reflective journal entries• Reflective assignment• Module marks• Observation

Feedback used for future development

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Definitions – help or hinder?

• Student learning

• Librarian/Learning Technologist

Viewpoints:

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Definitions – help or hinder?• Student learning

The first thing I learned in this module about digital literacy’s was that it was different from

computer skills. Digital literacy is about evolving your skills and managing your online

identity.

There is however a bond between IL [information literacy] and DL [digital literacy] which must be acknowledged; DL is an aspect

of IL. DL has helped me improve my online research skills to find relevant and reliable

sources, whilst the content analysis aspect of IL has helped me critically analyse the sources

quickly and efficiently.

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I also found it very interesting that there are digital literacies available to us like MarketLine and Hoovers that the university has paid for that I have not been informed of before maybe implying that we are not digital natives

after all.

This module has allowed me to explore the world of digital literacies to highlight the different forms of information

that is out there for the use of research.

Definitions – help or hinder?

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Definitions – way forward …

Which aspects define digital literacies (from info literacy)?

• Set apart and bring together (IL/DL)

Ref: Adapting JISC model in Powell and Varga-Atkins (2013)

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Definitions – way forward …

• Use scenarios• Extend to attributes• ‘Critical reflection’ Adapted from Beetham

and Sharpe (2010) : Powell and

Varga-Atkins (2013)

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Definitions – help or hinder?

• Student learning

• Librarian/l.technologist

• Make definitions clearer?• Use them consistently• Get over our problem of

defining

• Irrespective of definitions – evidence of student learning

• Making own definitions – more engagement?

Balance between free (student-created) vs ready-made (staff) definitions

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Could partnerships …enable embedding IL/DL?

• Success: – Academic champion– EBL model (not a

stand alone skills model) = REAL tasks

• Value of collaboration: skill – expertise model

• (Careers could have been a useful addition)

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How do partnerships develop?

• Dis/encouraged by structures?• What other structures help or

hinder this kind of development?

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Conclusion

• Fruitful partnership model

• Definitions can help & hinder

• More important is: working out discipline-specific information and digital literacies

• The ‘naming of the rose’: defining is understanding?

• Next: scaling up and extending partnership?

“I am using the digital skills you have taught us last year” (student

on corridor)

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[email protected] @CreaticDestruct

[email protected] @LibraryEmma

Tünde Varga-Atkins [email protected] @tundeva

Developing Digital Literacies Programmehttp://digilearn.liv.ac.uk

Reference: Powell, S. S.; Varga-Atkins, T. (2013) ‘Digital

Literacies: A Study of Perspectives and Practices of Academic Staff’: a

project report. Written for the SEDA Small Grants Scheme. Liverpool:

University of Liverpool. July. Version 1. Available from academia.edu


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