From Tech Savvy to Digitally Literate

1. From Tech Savvy
to Digitally Literate
Mark Frydenberg
Computer Information Systems Department
Bentley University
Waltham, MA 02452
mfrydenberg@bentley.edu

2. From Tech Savvy to Digitally Literate:
Apps and Activities for Social Learning
Today's students live in a world where being tech-savvy, constantly-
connected multi-taskers is the norm. How can educators incorporate
some of the latest social and digital media tools into the student
learning experience to promote digital literacy and critical thinking
skills?
Charge up your mobile device and bring it with you to participate in a
fast-paced hour of apps and activities that will keep your students
connected and engaged with technology and each other.

3. Install a QR Code Reader App for your phone

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6. Agenda
Engaging Students
Digital Literacy
Becoming Content Creators

8. ZeeMaps
https://goo.gl/nrnzpa

9. Who are today’s students?

10. Most of us experienced
formal learning in an
authority-based, lecture-
oriented school. Now,
with incredible amounts
of information available
through the Web, we find
a “new” kind of learning
assuming pre-
eminence—learning
that’s discovery based.

11. Engage Me or Enrage Me
 it’s not relevance
that’s lacking for
this generation,
it’s engagement

12. Minds on Fire / JS Brown
The most profound impact of the Internet is its ability to
support and expand the various aspects of social learning.

13. Engaged?

16. Rethink
Learning Spaces

18. Agenda
Engaging Students
Digital Literacy
Becoming Content Creators

19. May 2011
The natives are revolting
children may have skills in the
use of technology, but teachers
have the skills and knowledge
to create engaging and exciting
learning opportunities and
environments

21. What are today’s students concerned about?

23. NCTE’s 21st Century Literacies Framework
Literacy has always been a collection of cultural
and communicative practices shared among
members of particular groups. As society and
technology change, so does literacy. Because
technology has increased the intensity and
complexity of literate environments, the 21st
century demands that a literate person
possess a wide range of abilities and
competencies, many literacies.

24. Active, successful participants in this 21st century global society must
be able to:
• Develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology;
• Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships with
others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen
independent thought;
• Design and share information for global communities to meet a
variety of purposes

25. • Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous
information;
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts;
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex
environments.

26. JISC

27. Digital Literacy
Share Content
Social
Networking
Self
Presentation
Create
Content
Transliteracy
Identity
Management
Filter and
Select Content
Reuse /Remix
/ Repurpose
Privacy
Maintenance
(Steve Wheeler http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/ )

28. Digital Literacy
Share Content
Social
Networking
Self
Presentation
Create
Content
Transliteracy
Identity
Management
Filter and
Select Content
Reuse /Remix
/ Repurpose
Privacy
Maintenance
(Steve Wheeler http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/ )
KNOWLEEDGEMANAGEMENT
PERSONAL
SOCIAL

29. Agenda
Engaging Students
Digital Literacy
Becoming Content Creators

30. What can students create?

31. Cell phones in school

32. Periscope Live Streaming

33. TalkTech Project

34. Project Goals
• Work with students from another country to research a
technology topic and present those results using collaborative
multimedia tools
• Identify and use both synchronous and asynchronous tools to
communicate with international partners
• Produce a tangible work product within a designated period
of time
• Develop and demonstrate digital literacy skills

35. Topics 2015
• How is augmented reality being used in various
businesses or industries?
• How does social media influence customer
experiences?
• What are the most popular messaging apps, and
who uses them?
• What are the biggest cybersecurity threats facing
Internet users today?
• How does streaming audio and video impact the
entertainment industry?
• How do mobile technologies and the Internet
enable new business models through crowd
sourcing?
• Are MOOCs threatening the future or value of a
traditional university education?
• Are wearable devices a fad, or the future direction
for staying healthy?
• Should you license your photos using Creative
Commons on media sharing sites?
• Does information privacy matter in the age of big
and open data?
• When it comes to the Internet of Things, are we
there yet? If not, what is possible in the future?
• How smart are Virtual Personal Assistant apps such
as Siri and Cortana?
• What factors are most important in increasing the
adoption of mobile payment technologies?
• How do personal live streaming video apps change
the way information is shared over the Internet?
• What features do open-source mapping apps have
over Google or Bing Maps?

36. By the numbers
• 75 participants
• 68 of them created micro videos
• 21 used YouTube because they
did not have a smartphone that
could run the Vine app
• All had experience using some
online collaboration or digital
media tools

37. Tools Used
Task Tools
align time zones timeanddate.com
chat Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Google Hangouts, WeChat
create and host audio SoundCloud
create and host video Vine, Periscope, YouTube, PoowToon
create interactive images ThingLink
edit audio Sound Forge
edit images PhotoShop, Paint.net
edit video Windows Live Movie Maker
email Gmail, Outlook
hold video conferences Google Hangouts, Skype
record video mobile phone camera apps
schedule meetings Doodle
search the web Google, Bing
share photos Flickr, Tumblr
share screens join.me, Google Hangouts

38. Constraint
inspires Creativity

39. Vine Usage
among Teens

40. Creativity in Micro Videos
• Poulaki (2015)
• Looping background vs foreground videos
• Background videos have "less creative potential"
• Foreground Videos "reproduce a gesture or incident, an event, contain a
distinctive action, or a curious object and its transformation."
• Redi, O'Hare, Schifanella, Trevisiol, & Jaimes (2014)
• A creative video is "unique in a significant way, or it expresses ideas in an
unexpected or surprising manner.“
• “Creative videos are novel and have aesthetic value”

41. Categorizing Micro-videos
Category Number
Definition Selfie 14
Slide Show 6
Demonstration 29
Skit 16
Removed 3

42. TalkTech Results
• TalkTech introduced the task of creating micro-videos to illustrate
technology concepts
• Capturing and conveying the essence of a technology concept in six
seconds proved to be a challenging exercise in critical thinking and
planning.
• Students created a vines in a variety of styles, from simply reading to
presenting their research in a creative way
• Exercise exposed students to new ways to express themselves and think
creatively
• Students demonstrated abilities to research, collaborate, and communicate
online
• All groups completed the project successfully

43. Digital Literacy Revisited
Share Content
Social
Networking
Self
Presentation
Create
Content
Transliteracy
Identity
Management
Filter and
Select Content
Reuse /Remix
/ Repurpose
Privacy
Maintenance
(Steve Wheeler http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/ )

44. Game Changers: Internet, Mobile, Immersive

45. Augmented and Virtual Reality
• Cardboard Camera App
• Google Cardboard App

46. Facebook 360 Pictures
• Google Cardboard App
• Google Cardboard Camera (or any 360 camera app)
• Post to Facebook

47. 360 Photos Provide an Immersive Experience
Huffington Post
http://goo.gl/hrKxDG

48. Thank you!
Mark Frydenberg
Bentley University
mfrydenberg@bentley.edu
@checkmark