Presentation given to the FIT Task Force at Framingham University

1. Information Literacy
Technology Fluency
FIT at
Simmons
College

2. Timeline
• FIT Task Force
• Model
• Rubric
2004-5
Forming
• First Assessment
• Results
Presented
to Faculty
2006
Case Making
• SATV
• Fluency
Established
as Priority
2007
Prioritizing
• Incoming
Assessment
• iComp Resource
• iComp Workshops
• FIT Course
2008
Implementing

3. 2004-5 Forming
Information Literacy
• Information Science
• Information Architecture
• Intellectual Property
• Online Research
Technology
• Information Storage
and Retrieval
• Systems, Abstraction,
and Modeling
• Algorithmic
thinking
• Security/
Privacy
Media Literacy
• Semiotics / Linguistics
• Art / Media Studies
• Communications
• Philosophy/Ethics
• Cultural Studies
• Anthropology
•Education
•Sociology

4. 2004-5 Rubric
 Intellectual Capabilities
 Personal
 Interpersonal
 Professional
 Societal
 Concepts
 Skills

5. 2006 Case Making
56
34
29
26
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Selected Fake Site (incorrect) Selected NSF (correct) Selected NSF for Appropriate
Reasons
Not Sure
You are doing background research for a science project.
In addition to perusing library sources, you decide to go online to see what's available.

6. 2006 Case Making
Only 24% Selected the
Appropriate Site for the
Correct Reasons

7. 2007 Prioritizing
Shared
Academic
Technology
Vision
Student
fluencyFaculty
fluency
Roles &
rewards
Discipline-
specific
technologies Innovation and
emerging technologies
Online learning
and distance education
Learning
environments
Learning
management system

8. 2008 Implementing
Is this your first year as an
undergraduate student?
Then your iComps are right
around the corner in March.
What can you do to prepare? Learn at your
own pace in Simmons eLearning (IT 001
iComps) or sign up for workshops to help
you prepare for the exam.

9. Advice & Challenges
Advice
 Listen, Collaborate
 Make the Case, Educate
 Prioritize, Incorporate
Challenges
 Resources ($ and People)
 Continuity in Changing Leadership

10. Advice & Challenges
Biggest Challenge: Assessment
When we cannot measure what is
important, we make important what we
can measure.

11. That Was Then …
This is Now

12. That Was Then …
This is Now
Play
Performance
Simulation
Visualization
Appropriation
Transmedia Navigation
Distributed Cognition
Collective Intelligence
Judgment
Multitasking
Networking
Negotiation
Visualization
Henry Jenkins

13. That Was Then …
This is Now
Attention
Participation
Collaboration
Network awareness
Critical consumption
(a.k.a. crap detection)
Howard Rheingold

14. That Was Then …
This is Now
Partnership for 21st Century Skills