UEA workshop

1. Reading in a digital age
MAHEP 3 (Nov 2016 and April 2017)
Florence Dujardin, Emma Coonan and Sian Blake

2. Module 3
Learning
outcomes
• Review digital practice in higher
education, through discussion with
colleagues
• Focus on the use and value of
technology-enhanced learning in
your discipline
• Understand the use and value of
technology in engaging with students
• Developing students’ digital literacies
(to carry forward in their future
professions and as citizens in the
network society).

3. KEY CONCEPTSDigital curation
Information literacy

4. How can we
support student
reading?
Digital practices
Strategies
Technologies

5. Digital practices
identity
practices
skills
access
(Beetham and Sharpe 2010)

6. Digital practices
identity
practices
skills
access

7. Digital practices
identity
practices
skills
access

8. Digital practices
identity
practices
skills
access

9. Survey of student use of
Wikipedia:
 Convenience
 Comprehensibility
 Coverage
 Credibility
(Head and Eisenberg 2010)
Wikipedia

10. DISCUSSIONDo you discuss Wikipedia with
students?
What do you say?
Do you build tasks around
Wikipedia?

11. What do I do with this reading?
You want me to have
an opinion as well?
Just tell me
what I need
to read!
I thought you had to be
a Doctor to disagree
(PGT student)
(Price, 2004)

12. DISCUSSION
How are we supporting student
understanding of reading?
How do we explain/show that
questioning and having a
standpoint are key academic
practices?
(How) can we design reading lists
that help them achieve this
understanding?

13. Practical approaches
Helping students to
 choose what’s relevant from a list
 Read actively and selectively
 Understand that you can’t read it
all (Edwards, 2011: reading as
‘threshold concept’)

14. Building a reading list
UNCURATED (ZOTERO LIST) CURATED (TALIS LIST)

15. Reading list examples

16. References
Beetham, H. and Sharpe, R.K. (2010) Digital Literacy Framework. JISC Digital Studio. Available from
http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/page/46740204/Digital%20literacy%20framework
Edwards, C. (2011). ‘Investigation of the relevance of the notion of a threshold concept within generic learning
development work’. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education 3 April
Head, A.J. and Eisenberg, M.B., 2010. How today’s college students use Wikipedia for course-related research.
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