The next big challenge? Digital literacies to support student learning

The next big
challenge?
Digital literacies
to support
student learning
#te21GU 7 June 2011

Lis Parcell
e.j.parcell@swansea.ac.uk
@lisparcell
Paul Richardson
p.b.r.richardson@swansea.ac.uk
@paulbrichardson
http://www.delicious.com/lisparcell/digital_literacies
JISC RSC Wales
www.rsc-wales.ac.uk
support@rsc-wales.ac.uk
01792 295959
@rscwales

Digital Wales – Digitally Literate Wales?
Source: Welsh Assembly Government
http://bit.ly/eaILKs

Visions of students today
Images : thanks to http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiscinfonet/
Youtube clip: thanks to januycheng. More on VOST2011:
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=288

“those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society“ (JISC)
So what could ‘Digital Literacy’ mean? Just a few possibilities
“the confident and critical use of ICT for work, leisure, learning and communication“
(EU)
“Digital literacy is about mastering ideas not keystrokes” (Paul Gilster)

Aspects of a digitally literate student

“Digital literacy is a complex and contested term”
From Futurelab: Digital literacy across the curriculum http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/handbooks/digital_literacy.pdf

What does digital literacy mean for your students?
...and you?

Learning Literacies for a Digital Age (LLiDA)
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/daneelariantho/2631276941/

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
Supporting effective learners in a digital age:
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomcochrane/4972619950/

Supporting effective learners in a digital age: Co-Lab
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiscinfonet/5145615615/in/set-72157625186754657/

Supporting effective learners in a digital age: Digital literacy as a graduate attribute
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/apotheker/6996939/

More projects and resources
Using Peer EGuides to Support Digital Literacy
http://www.llandrillo.ac.uk/studentinformation/life/e-learning.aspx (JISC PEDL project)
Yale College Wrexham E-safety project http://www.yale-wrexham.co.uk/news_details.php?NewsID=348
Welsh Information Literacy Project http://library.wales.org/information-literacy/case-studies/
Cardiff University Information Literacy Resource Bank https://ilrb.cf.ac.uk/
HEIs building on Gwella enhancement work
JISC Digital Literacies Programme http://bit.ly/hUY8ph

Some challenges
Skills gaps
Personal/social vs educational uses of technology
Transitions
Disciplinary differences
Changing staff roles
Ownership
Open information, data and content
More on the horizon
Horizon Report http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/

Exchange of experience
Choose one card that you find interesting/surprising
Any similarities to your learners? Any differences?
How do you help those learners to be digitally literate at present– what works well?
If digital literacies are to support L&T excellence, what may need to change in your dept/organisation?
From Futurelab: Digital literacy across the curriculum http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/handbooks/digital_literacy.pdf

What next?
JISC Digital Literacies Programme #digilit
The start of embedding in institutional strategies?
JISC workshops
http://bit.ly/eA7kTE
We’re planning one in Wales early Nov. 2011
Watch this space!

The next big challenge? Digital literacies to support student learning

by Lis Parcell on Jul 27, 2011

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