1. Digital Literacy
& Libraries:
What’s Coming Next
Renee Hobbs
Metropolitan New York Library Council
Annual Gathering
January 15, 2013

3. Stakeholders in Digital Literacy
EDUCATION CREATIVE
GOVERNMENT LIBRARY
TECH BUSINESS ACTIVIST

5. Literacy
Visual Literacy
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
Computer Literacy
Critical Literacy
News Literacy
Digital Literacy
Digital Literacy in Historical Context

6. A Lifelong Process

7. A Lifelong Process

8. A Lifelong Process

9. Digital literacy is the ability to use information and
communication technologies to find, evaluate,
create, andDigital Literacyinformation requiring
communicate & Libraries:
both cognitive and technical Next
Designing What’s Coming skills.
-ALA Digital Literacy Task Force

10. Access, Create & Analyze & Apply Ethical
Use & Share Collaborate Evaluate Judgment

11. Defining Digital Literacy
 Keyboard and mouse skills
 Be familiar with hardware, storage and file
management practices
 Understand hyperlinking & digital space
 Gain competence with software applications
 Use social media, mobile, peripheral & cloud
computing tools
 Have access to broadband
 Identify information needs
 Use effective search and find strategies
 Troubleshoot and problem-solve
 Learn how to learn
Access, Use and Share
 Listening skills
 Reading comprehension

12. Defining Digital Literacy
 Recognize the need for communication and
self-expression
 Identify your own purpose, target
audience, medium & genre
 Brainstorm and generate ideas
 Compose creatively
 Work collaboratively
 Edit and revise
 Use appropriate distribution, promotion &
marketing channels
 Receive audience feedback
 Play and interact
Create & Collaborate  Comment
 Curate
 Remix

13. Defining Digital Literacy
 Recognize the relationship between symbol
and referent
 Identify the author, genre, purpose and
point of view of a message
 Compare and contrast sources
 Evaluate credibility and quality
 Understand one’s own biases and world
view
 Recognize power relationships that shape
how information and ideas circulate in
culture
 Understand the economic context of
Analyze & Evaluate information and entertainment production
 Examine the political and social
ramifications of inequalities in information
flows

14. Defining Digital Literacy
 Acknowledge the power of communication
to maintain the status quo or change the
world
 Understand how differences in values and
life experience shape people’s media use
and message interpretation
 Appreciate risks and potential harms of
digital media
 Apply ethical judgment and social
responsibility to online communication
situations
 Understand how concepts of ‘private’ and
Apply Ethical Judgment ‘public’ are reshaped by digital media
 Appreciate and respect legal rights and
responsibilities (copyright, intellectual
freedom, etc)

15. Access, Use & Create & Analyze & Apply Ethical
Share Collaborate Evaluate Judgment

16. PLAY – LEARN - REFLECT
Use & Share Create &
Collaborate
Analyze &
Evaluate
Apply Ethical
Judgment

17. Challenge #1
Manage the Momentum

18. Challenge #2
Identify Community Needs

19. Challenge #3
Find Good Partners

20. Challenge #4
Decide What Matters

21. Challenge #5
Measure Impact

22. Challenge #6
Tell Your Story

23. Challenge #7
Give it Time to Grow

24. Access, Use & Create & Analyze & Apply Ethical
Share Collaborate Evaluate Judgment

25. Use & Share
TAKE ACTION
Create &
Collaborate
Analyze &
Evaluate
Apply Ethical
Judgment

26. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Section 1201

27. Communities of Practice Assert
Their Fair Use Rights
* * * * October 2012 * * * *
Library of Congress grants
K-12 educators the right to
“rip” copy-protected
audiovisual media for
teaching and learning

30. www.PowerfulVoicesforKids.com
Book and Website Launch, June 2013

34. Digital Literacy
& Libraries:
What’s Coming Next
Renee Hobbs
Harrington School of Communication and Media
University of Rhode Island
Email: hobbs@uri.edu
Twitter: reneehobbs
Web: http://mediaeducationlab.com