Metaliteracy provides a framework for teaching information literacy that emphasizes collaboration, participation, and critical thinking in digital environments. It can be taught by having students evaluate user-generated content, understand privacy and ethics, and create original work in multiple formats. Assignments like blogs, digital stories, and online projects help develop metaliteracy skills. A future MOOC called #L4LLL will teach metaliteracies for lifelong learning.
This presentation examines the metaliteracy framework developed by Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson. Metaliteracy will be examined as a reframing of information literacy. This presentation also reports on the successful Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG) at SUNY that led to new metaliteracy learning objectives.
Crossing the Threshold: Envisioning Information Literacy through the Lens of ...Tom Mackey
Twitter is abuzz with comments about metaliteracy, threshold concepts, and frameworks. Information literacy is being reframed, reinvented, and reimagined in articles, books, conference presentations, and lively discussions in the field. What happened to the more traditional elements of information literacy and the iconic ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education? Why are these alternative models appearing now, and what do they bring to the conversation? This collaborative keynote will provide an opportunity to learn more about these new models, and to reflect on how they might inform your teaching and your students’ learning. We will explore these developments by highlighting key aspects of our new book Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners. Trudi Jacobson will also relate these questions to her work as Co-Chair of the ACRL Task Force that is shifting the original standards to a framework informed by a scaffolding of threshold concepts.
Metaliteracy Presentation at Dartmouth CollegeTom Mackey
Keynote presentation by Trudi Jacobson and Tom Mackey for the New England Library Instruction Group (NELIG) Annual Program at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
Developing Metaliteracy to Engage Citizens in a Connected WorldTom Mackey
This keynote at the University of Delaware's Faculty Summer Institute 2016 explored the theory of metaliteracy while illustrating practical applications in several projects developed by the Metaliteracy Learning Collaborative. This work included three Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and a competency-based digital badging system. This presentation examined the Metaliteracy Learning Goals and Objectives as a flexible, adaptable, and evolving resource, and highlighted the influence of metaliteracy on the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.
As a redefinition and reinvention of information literacy, metaliteracy is a framework for learning that emphasizes metacognition and the production of original and repurposed information in a participatory and connected world. Metaliteracy shifts the focus from consumer to producer of information, and from user to maker in collaborative makerspaces that are actual and virtual, networked, and social. Today’s complex information environments require an overarching literacy that emphasizes a comprehensive set of competencies to engage learners with a wide range of forms that are textual, aural, visual, virtual, digital, social, and technology mediated. The metaliterate learner has the ability to constantly reflect on social learning, expanding quantitative and qualitative reasoning, while engaging as an informed citizen capable of contributing to these spaces and to society in a productive and ethical manner. Metaliteracy supports our goals as educators to design curriculum that advances critical thinking, reading, writing, and creating, through multiple formats and settings.
Metaliteracy and the Participatory Role of Learners in Today’s Social Informa...Tom Mackey
Participating effectively in today’s social information environment requires abilities and dispositions that encompass and extend beyond those required to engage in academic research. The open, participatory nature of social media requires learners to take on diverse roles, from critical consumer to informed producer and responsible sharer of information in dynamic and sometimes uncertain spaces. This collaborative and connected world also provides opportunities for learners to expand their roles as communicator, researcher, and teacher. In order to connect fully and successfully in this sphere, our students must understand and accept their potential contributions and responsibilities when consuming and creating information in an environment that is similarly fractured and divisive. They need to adapt to ever-changing technologies and must be prepared to ask critical questions about the information they encounter from formal and informal sources. General Education, in particular, is key to how we prepare students for this ever-shifting and dynamic socially connected world.
Metaliteracy as an Empowering Model for Teaching Mobile and Social LearnersTom Mackey
Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson presented a collaborative keynote on metaliteracy at The University of Puerto Rico’s Mobile Learning Week event on Monday, March 20 at 10am eastern time. In a presentation entitled “Metaliteracy as an Empowering Model for Teaching Mobile and Social Learners,” Tom and Trudi will explored the theory of metaliteracy while illustrating practical applications that can be applied in a variety of teaching and learning situations. In today’s mobile media environments our learners are continuously engaged with information in a variety of forms using a range of technologies. Learners from around the world are texting, posting, and sharing documents they find online through a multitude of social media spaces and mobile devices. But how much of this information can be trusted?
Promoting Metaliteracy and Metacognition in Collaborative Teaching and LearningTom Mackey
Trudi Jacobson and Tom Mackey present on metaliteracy as part of a panel at the NOLA Information Literacy Collective on Friday, August 11, 2017. This virtual presentation defines metaliteracy, discusses the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, and examines the metaliteracy learning goals and objectives. Specific metaliteracy related projects such as the competency based digital badging system and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are examined as well.
This presentation examines the metaliteracy framework developed by Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson. Metaliteracy will be examined as a reframing of information literacy. This presentation also reports on the successful Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG) at SUNY that led to new metaliteracy learning objectives.
Crossing the Threshold: Envisioning Information Literacy through the Lens of ...Tom Mackey
Twitter is abuzz with comments about metaliteracy, threshold concepts, and frameworks. Information literacy is being reframed, reinvented, and reimagined in articles, books, conference presentations, and lively discussions in the field. What happened to the more traditional elements of information literacy and the iconic ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education? Why are these alternative models appearing now, and what do they bring to the conversation? This collaborative keynote will provide an opportunity to learn more about these new models, and to reflect on how they might inform your teaching and your students’ learning. We will explore these developments by highlighting key aspects of our new book Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners. Trudi Jacobson will also relate these questions to her work as Co-Chair of the ACRL Task Force that is shifting the original standards to a framework informed by a scaffolding of threshold concepts.
Metaliteracy Presentation at Dartmouth CollegeTom Mackey
Keynote presentation by Trudi Jacobson and Tom Mackey for the New England Library Instruction Group (NELIG) Annual Program at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
Developing Metaliteracy to Engage Citizens in a Connected WorldTom Mackey
This keynote at the University of Delaware's Faculty Summer Institute 2016 explored the theory of metaliteracy while illustrating practical applications in several projects developed by the Metaliteracy Learning Collaborative. This work included three Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and a competency-based digital badging system. This presentation examined the Metaliteracy Learning Goals and Objectives as a flexible, adaptable, and evolving resource, and highlighted the influence of metaliteracy on the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.
As a redefinition and reinvention of information literacy, metaliteracy is a framework for learning that emphasizes metacognition and the production of original and repurposed information in a participatory and connected world. Metaliteracy shifts the focus from consumer to producer of information, and from user to maker in collaborative makerspaces that are actual and virtual, networked, and social. Today’s complex information environments require an overarching literacy that emphasizes a comprehensive set of competencies to engage learners with a wide range of forms that are textual, aural, visual, virtual, digital, social, and technology mediated. The metaliterate learner has the ability to constantly reflect on social learning, expanding quantitative and qualitative reasoning, while engaging as an informed citizen capable of contributing to these spaces and to society in a productive and ethical manner. Metaliteracy supports our goals as educators to design curriculum that advances critical thinking, reading, writing, and creating, through multiple formats and settings.
Metaliteracy and the Participatory Role of Learners in Today’s Social Informa...Tom Mackey
Participating effectively in today’s social information environment requires abilities and dispositions that encompass and extend beyond those required to engage in academic research. The open, participatory nature of social media requires learners to take on diverse roles, from critical consumer to informed producer and responsible sharer of information in dynamic and sometimes uncertain spaces. This collaborative and connected world also provides opportunities for learners to expand their roles as communicator, researcher, and teacher. In order to connect fully and successfully in this sphere, our students must understand and accept their potential contributions and responsibilities when consuming and creating information in an environment that is similarly fractured and divisive. They need to adapt to ever-changing technologies and must be prepared to ask critical questions about the information they encounter from formal and informal sources. General Education, in particular, is key to how we prepare students for this ever-shifting and dynamic socially connected world.
Metaliteracy as an Empowering Model for Teaching Mobile and Social LearnersTom Mackey
Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson presented a collaborative keynote on metaliteracy at The University of Puerto Rico’s Mobile Learning Week event on Monday, March 20 at 10am eastern time. In a presentation entitled “Metaliteracy as an Empowering Model for Teaching Mobile and Social Learners,” Tom and Trudi will explored the theory of metaliteracy while illustrating practical applications that can be applied in a variety of teaching and learning situations. In today’s mobile media environments our learners are continuously engaged with information in a variety of forms using a range of technologies. Learners from around the world are texting, posting, and sharing documents they find online through a multitude of social media spaces and mobile devices. But how much of this information can be trusted?
Promoting Metaliteracy and Metacognition in Collaborative Teaching and LearningTom Mackey
Trudi Jacobson and Tom Mackey present on metaliteracy as part of a panel at the NOLA Information Literacy Collective on Friday, August 11, 2017. This virtual presentation defines metaliteracy, discusses the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, and examines the metaliteracy learning goals and objectives. Specific metaliteracy related projects such as the competency based digital badging system and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are examined as well.
Expanding Metaliteracy Across the Curriculum to Advance Lifelong Civic Engage...Tom Mackey
This presentation was for 2015 Summer Workshop at Cedar Crest College and explored the following: Metaliterate learners, who apply integrated competencies related to evaluating, consuming, and producing information in participatory environments, will be better prepared for college level learning and lifelong civic engagement. This workshop defined metaliteracy, discussed the four domains of metaliteracy and related learning goals and objectives, and examined how this approach has been applied in the curricular design of several innovative projects such as competency based digital badging and three MOOCs. Participants discussed ways to envisage opportunities to enhance students’ metaliteracy abilities, and to share these ideas with other attendees.
Developing Metaliterate Citizens: Designing and Delivering Enhanced Global Le...Tom Mackey
Presented at the Conference on Learning Information Literacy across the Globe in Frankfurt am Main, Germany 10th of May 2019. Metaliteracy is examined as an empowering pedagogical framework that advances learners as informed consumers and original producers of information.
Developing Metaliterate Learners: Transforming Literacy across DisciplinesTom Mackey
This was the opening keynote presentation by Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson for the SUNY "Conversations in the Disciplines" one-day conference focused on metaliteracy.
Empowering Yourself in a Connected World: Designing an Open SUNY Coursera MOO...Tom Mackey
A collaborative team within SUNY that includes both Empire State College and The University at Albany designed a learner-centered Open SUNY Coursera MOOC based on the concept of metaliteracy. We reached a global audience through the Coursera platform that influenced our design decisions and expanded our understanding of digital literacies internationally.
Metaliteracy: Reflective and Empowered Lifelong LearningTom Mackey
This keynote presentation at La Universidad de Guadalajara "Second Encounter of Reading in Higher Education: Literacy in Everyday Life" defined metaliteracy in everyday experience and in academic settings, while exploring its importance in today’s multifaceted social media spaces. Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson examined how metaliteracy complements the literacy of reading and writing in new media environments, and extends information literacy beyond search and retrieval, to define a metacognitive perspective that prepares individuals to continuously reflect, adapt, persist, and participate in mutable information environments. The authors demonstrated metaliteracy learning projects, including a competency based digital badging system and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that map the metaliteracy learning goals and objectives to tangible and reflective learning activities.
Teaching Metaliteracy in the Post-Truth WorldTom Mackey
This presentation introduced metaliteracy and its critical role in today’s post-truth world. Trudi Jacobson and Tom Mackey presented Ideas for incorporating discipline-based teaching of metaliteracy, from the development of metaliteracy learning outcomes to the design of collaborative teaching and learning opportunities. Participants gained insights about how to promote metaliterate learning academically and through lifelong learning.
The driving goal for this Tier 3 IITG project was the integration of the Open SUNY Metaliteracy Badging System with Coursera’s MOOC platform. We proposed that merging these two innovative and flexible learning models would provide an exciting prospect to implement metaliteracy competencies across a wide and diverse audience. Coursera’s analytics also provided the opportunity to gather valuable data about the impact of the badging system on the learning experience, especially in regards to student motivation.
As we set out to build our MOOC, however, we encountered both technological and pedagogical barriers to our original course design. The first of these barriers was that full integration of the badging system in the way we had envisioned was not possible with Coursera's current functionalities.
The other barrier we encountered was related to the incompatibility of our original assessments with
the automated nature of MOOCs. The assessments we had designed for the badging system are mostly open-ended, reflective assignments that cannot be automatically graded, but rather must be reviewed by an instructor. While we wanted to maintain the integrity of the original assignments, instructor
grading of massive numbers of submissions was not possible. We decided to adapt the assignments to a peer-review model, which involved careful construction of rubrics and explicit instructions for student reviewers to follow as they graded their peers.
These challenges presented an important turning point in our project. Do we modify our content according to the platform, or do we push the limits of the platform in order to accommodate our content? Our ultimate solutions involved a little bit of both.
We discovered that Canvas, another major player in the MOOC world, provides tools that enable a more robust integration of the badging system. However, we didn’t want to give up the opportunity to host a MOOC on Coursera, due to their high profile in the MOOC arena, and their selection as the platform of
choice for SUNY. We decided to proceed with the creation of two MOOCs, which would be offered in succession on the two different platforms, and would allow us to take advantage of the unique strengths offered by each.
This panel will offer insights about the collaborative development and facilitation of both the Coursera and Canvas MOOCs and the extent to which we were able to integrate the digital badging system. We will discuss the process of deciding how to incorporate the Metaliteracy Badges, how determinations were made about video production and use, and the unanticipated challenges and strengths of this combined model that featured structured modules and competency based learning. We will also discuss
completion rates, and offer student feedback on both MOOCs. The development of MOOCs in both Coursera and Canvas presented the unique opportunity to compare the advantages and drawbacks of both platforms.
This poster was developed for the State University of New York (SUNY) Fall Convening to explore New Models for Enrollment, Retention & Completion (ERC).
New Visual Social Media for the Higher Education ClassroomRochell McWhorter
Authors: Julie A. Delello and Rochell R McWhorter
This chapter examines how next-generation visual social platforms motivate students to capture authentic evidence of their learning and achievements, publish digital artifacts, and share content across visual social media. Educators are facing the immediate task of integrating social media into their current practice to meet the needs of the twenty-first century learner. Using a case study, this chapter highlights through empirical work how nascent visual social media platforms such as Pinterest are being utilized in the college classroom and concludes with projections on ways visual networking platforms will transform traditional models of education.
This degree is designed to develop agile leaders in new cultures of digital formal and informal learning, with flexible program options in knowledge networking, global information flow, advanced search techniques, learning analytics, social media, game-based learning, digital literature, learning spaces design and more. Ideal for educators, school leaders, ICT integrators, teacher librarians, instructional designers, learning support specialists and teacher educators, who are seeking to develop expertise in global and community networked knowledge environments.
This talk introduced staff at University College Borås to an approach for teaching social media literacies that I was piloting with a group at the IT Technics University, Gothenburg, Sweden.
This presentation, "Transliteracy and Metaliteracy: Emerging Literacy Frameworks for Social Media" was part of the CMC11 MOOC offered by SUNY Empire State College, with Thomas P. Mackey, Interim Dean at CDL and Trudi E. Jacobson, Distinguished Librarian at The University at Albany.
Expanding Metaliteracy Across the Curriculum to Advance Lifelong Civic Engage...Tom Mackey
This presentation was for 2015 Summer Workshop at Cedar Crest College and explored the following: Metaliterate learners, who apply integrated competencies related to evaluating, consuming, and producing information in participatory environments, will be better prepared for college level learning and lifelong civic engagement. This workshop defined metaliteracy, discussed the four domains of metaliteracy and related learning goals and objectives, and examined how this approach has been applied in the curricular design of several innovative projects such as competency based digital badging and three MOOCs. Participants discussed ways to envisage opportunities to enhance students’ metaliteracy abilities, and to share these ideas with other attendees.
Developing Metaliterate Citizens: Designing and Delivering Enhanced Global Le...Tom Mackey
Presented at the Conference on Learning Information Literacy across the Globe in Frankfurt am Main, Germany 10th of May 2019. Metaliteracy is examined as an empowering pedagogical framework that advances learners as informed consumers and original producers of information.
Developing Metaliterate Learners: Transforming Literacy across DisciplinesTom Mackey
This was the opening keynote presentation by Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson for the SUNY "Conversations in the Disciplines" one-day conference focused on metaliteracy.
Empowering Yourself in a Connected World: Designing an Open SUNY Coursera MOO...Tom Mackey
A collaborative team within SUNY that includes both Empire State College and The University at Albany designed a learner-centered Open SUNY Coursera MOOC based on the concept of metaliteracy. We reached a global audience through the Coursera platform that influenced our design decisions and expanded our understanding of digital literacies internationally.
Metaliteracy: Reflective and Empowered Lifelong LearningTom Mackey
This keynote presentation at La Universidad de Guadalajara "Second Encounter of Reading in Higher Education: Literacy in Everyday Life" defined metaliteracy in everyday experience and in academic settings, while exploring its importance in today’s multifaceted social media spaces. Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson examined how metaliteracy complements the literacy of reading and writing in new media environments, and extends information literacy beyond search and retrieval, to define a metacognitive perspective that prepares individuals to continuously reflect, adapt, persist, and participate in mutable information environments. The authors demonstrated metaliteracy learning projects, including a competency based digital badging system and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that map the metaliteracy learning goals and objectives to tangible and reflective learning activities.
Teaching Metaliteracy in the Post-Truth WorldTom Mackey
This presentation introduced metaliteracy and its critical role in today’s post-truth world. Trudi Jacobson and Tom Mackey presented Ideas for incorporating discipline-based teaching of metaliteracy, from the development of metaliteracy learning outcomes to the design of collaborative teaching and learning opportunities. Participants gained insights about how to promote metaliterate learning academically and through lifelong learning.
The driving goal for this Tier 3 IITG project was the integration of the Open SUNY Metaliteracy Badging System with Coursera’s MOOC platform. We proposed that merging these two innovative and flexible learning models would provide an exciting prospect to implement metaliteracy competencies across a wide and diverse audience. Coursera’s analytics also provided the opportunity to gather valuable data about the impact of the badging system on the learning experience, especially in regards to student motivation.
As we set out to build our MOOC, however, we encountered both technological and pedagogical barriers to our original course design. The first of these barriers was that full integration of the badging system in the way we had envisioned was not possible with Coursera's current functionalities.
The other barrier we encountered was related to the incompatibility of our original assessments with
the automated nature of MOOCs. The assessments we had designed for the badging system are mostly open-ended, reflective assignments that cannot be automatically graded, but rather must be reviewed by an instructor. While we wanted to maintain the integrity of the original assignments, instructor
grading of massive numbers of submissions was not possible. We decided to adapt the assignments to a peer-review model, which involved careful construction of rubrics and explicit instructions for student reviewers to follow as they graded their peers.
These challenges presented an important turning point in our project. Do we modify our content according to the platform, or do we push the limits of the platform in order to accommodate our content? Our ultimate solutions involved a little bit of both.
We discovered that Canvas, another major player in the MOOC world, provides tools that enable a more robust integration of the badging system. However, we didn’t want to give up the opportunity to host a MOOC on Coursera, due to their high profile in the MOOC arena, and their selection as the platform of
choice for SUNY. We decided to proceed with the creation of two MOOCs, which would be offered in succession on the two different platforms, and would allow us to take advantage of the unique strengths offered by each.
This panel will offer insights about the collaborative development and facilitation of both the Coursera and Canvas MOOCs and the extent to which we were able to integrate the digital badging system. We will discuss the process of deciding how to incorporate the Metaliteracy Badges, how determinations were made about video production and use, and the unanticipated challenges and strengths of this combined model that featured structured modules and competency based learning. We will also discuss
completion rates, and offer student feedback on both MOOCs. The development of MOOCs in both Coursera and Canvas presented the unique opportunity to compare the advantages and drawbacks of both platforms.
This poster was developed for the State University of New York (SUNY) Fall Convening to explore New Models for Enrollment, Retention & Completion (ERC).
New Visual Social Media for the Higher Education ClassroomRochell McWhorter
Authors: Julie A. Delello and Rochell R McWhorter
This chapter examines how next-generation visual social platforms motivate students to capture authentic evidence of their learning and achievements, publish digital artifacts, and share content across visual social media. Educators are facing the immediate task of integrating social media into their current practice to meet the needs of the twenty-first century learner. Using a case study, this chapter highlights through empirical work how nascent visual social media platforms such as Pinterest are being utilized in the college classroom and concludes with projections on ways visual networking platforms will transform traditional models of education.
This degree is designed to develop agile leaders in new cultures of digital formal and informal learning, with flexible program options in knowledge networking, global information flow, advanced search techniques, learning analytics, social media, game-based learning, digital literature, learning spaces design and more. Ideal for educators, school leaders, ICT integrators, teacher librarians, instructional designers, learning support specialists and teacher educators, who are seeking to develop expertise in global and community networked knowledge environments.
This talk introduced staff at University College Borås to an approach for teaching social media literacies that I was piloting with a group at the IT Technics University, Gothenburg, Sweden.
This presentation, "Transliteracy and Metaliteracy: Emerging Literacy Frameworks for Social Media" was part of the CMC11 MOOC offered by SUNY Empire State College, with Thomas P. Mackey, Interim Dean at CDL and Trudi E. Jacobson, Distinguished Librarian at The University at Albany.
Block 3.1: Connectivities built by memory modalities.
Angeliki Tzouganatou (University of Hamburg, Germany):
Internet ecologies of open knowledge as future memory modalities.
Rethinking Learning in the Age of Digital FluencyJudy O'Connell
Digital connectivity is a transformative phenomenon of the 21st century. While many have debated its impact on society, educators have been quick to mandate technology in school development - often without analysing the digital fluency of those involved, and the actual impact on learning. Is being digitally tethered creating a new learning nexus for those involved?
This presentation accompanies a workshop on incorporating wikis into classroom settings and professional learning communities. For more information, visit http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/+Wikis.
Digital scholarship: Exploration of strategies and skills for knowledge creat...@cristobalcobo
This presentation identifies some key aspects of the new modes of scholarship of collaborative, trans-disciplinary and computationally engaged research, teaching and publication.
Cristobal Cobo Oxford Internet Institute,
Oxford University, England
Concepcion Naval,
University of Navarra, Spain
internetscienceconference.eu
Workshop 1
Gender, Education and New Technologies: Assessing the evidence
Led by Michael Peters
Workshop 2
Girls, Social Media & Social Networking: Harnessing the talent
Led by Tina Besley
Sociomedia: The Transformative Power of TechnologyRichard Smyth
a model for using educational technology in light of new emerging literacies. this goes along with the podcast available here: http://www.anabiosispress.org/temp/sociomedia.mp3
Advancing Metaliteracy in a Post-Truth World through the Design of a Global M...Tom Mackey
A team of educators from Empire State College and UAlbany present on an Open EdX MOOC, Empowering Yourself in a Post-Truth World. Based on lessons learned from prior metaliteracy MOOC implementations (connectivist, Canvas and Coursera), the MOOC prepares learners to be reflective, critical consumers and active, well-informed producers and participants in today’s connected yet divisive digital information environment.
Accelerating Metaliterate Learning with a Global MOOC and Digital Badging SystemTom Mackey
This interactive presentation invited attendees to provide feedback on a developing global MOOC entitled Metaliterate Learning in the Post-Truth World and metaliteracy digital badging system. Participants offered insights at a critical point in the development process, as we prepared the MOOC and digital badging content for spring 2019.
Fake News, Real Teens: Problems and PossibilitiesTom Mackey
This presentation is part of a panel held at the Albany Public Library in Albany, New York on Sunday November 4, 2018. It explore the emergence of false and misleading information in a post-truth world and how metaliteracy is a teaching and learning solution to empower individuals to be informed consumers and creative producers of information in a digital world.
Promoting Collaboration in Open Online ProgramsTom Mackey
As part of this year's Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE) Northeast Metropolitan Spring Conference, CDL Dean Tom Mackey presented, "Promoting Collaboration in Open Online Programs." This year's conference was sponsored by the Stony Brook School for Professional Development and took place on Friday, June 14, at Stony Brook University in Manhattan. The theme of this year's event was Distance Education: Access, Quality, Opportunities, and Cautions.
1. In Practice
“Metaliteracy sounds great but how do I teach it?”
Trudi Jacobson, Tom Mackey, and Greg Bobish
3Ts Transliteracy, Technology, Teaching Conference
SUNY Empire State College
March 15, 2013
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3. “Participatory culture
shifts the focus of literacy
from one of individual
expression to community
involvement” (p. xiii).
Confronting the Challenges
of Participatory Culture
Media Education for the 21st Century
Henry Jenkins
2009
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4. “The new literacies almost
all involve social skills
developed through
collaboration and
networking.” (p. xiii).
Confronting the Challenges
of Participatory Culture
Media Education for the 21st Century
Henry Jenkins
2009
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6. "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
• “Over 6.7 million students
were taking at least one
online course during the fall
2011 term, an increase of
570,000 students over the
previous year.”
http://sloanconsortium.org/news_press/january2013_new-study-over-67-million-students-learning-online
7. “Metaliteracy promotes critical
thinking and collaboration in a digital
age, providing a comprehensive
framework to effectively participate in
social media and online communities.”
Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson “Reframing Information Literacy as a
Metaliteracy” College & Research Libraries. January 2011 72:62-78.
http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.full.pdf
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8. “It is a unified construct that supports
the acquisition, production, and
sharing of knowledge in collaborative
online communities.”
Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson “Reframing Information Literacy as a
Metaliteracy” College & Research Libraries. January 2011 72:62-78.
http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.full.pdf
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9. “Information literacy is central to this
redefinition because information takes
many forms online and is produced and
communicated through multiple
modalities. ”
Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson “Reframing Information Literacy as a
Metaliteracy” College & Research Libraries. January 2011 72:62-78.
http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.full.pdf
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10. “The ability to critically self-assess one’s
own competencies and to recognize the
need for integrated or expanded literacies
in today’s information environment is a
metaliteracy.”
Mackey and Jacobson (2013)
Metaliteracy for the Open Age of Social Media manuscript
Metaliteracy is Metacognitive 10
11. “This metacognitive approach challenges a
reliance on skills-based information literacy
instruction only and shifts the focus to
knowledge acquisition in collaboration with
others.”
Mackey and Jacobson (2013)
Metaliteracy for the Open Age of Social Media manuscript
Metaliteracy is Metacognitive 11
13. “Both metaliteracy and transliteracy
challenge traditional skills-based concepts
of information literacy by recognizing the
role of emerging technologies, suggesting
that information technology is a central
component of students’ learning.”
“Connectivism: Learning Theory and Pedagogical Practice
for Networked Information Landscapes”
Michelle Kathleen Dunaway
Reference Services Review Vol. 39 Iss: 4
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14. “Metaliteracy and transliteracy are
frameworks for understanding information
literacy that emphasize the importance of
communities, connections, information
networks, and information technologies;”
“Connectivism: Learning Theory and Pedagogical Practice
for Networked Information Landscapes”
Michelle Kathleen Dunaway
Reference Services Review Vol. 39 Iss: 4
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15. “Metaliteracy provides an integrated
and all inclusive core for engaging
with individuals and ideas in digital
information environments.” (Mackey
and Jacobson, Op. cit., p. 69)
-Toni Carbo, Ph.D.
“Consideration within the broader
Mediacy and Metaliteracy Framework”
A paper for UNESCO
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16. “This new paradigm, with its broader
perspective integrating the many
different forms of literacy, is one that
should be explored in much more
depth across cultures and nations.”
-Toni Carbo, Ph.D.
“Consideration within the broader
Mediacy and Metaliteracy Framework”
A paper for UNESCO
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18. ACRL Standard Definition (1989)
• Determine the extent of information needed
• Access the needed information effectively and
efficiently
• Evaluate information and its sources critically
• Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge
base
• Use information effectively to accomplish a specific
purpose
• Understand the economic, legal, and social issues
surrounding the use of information, and access and use
information ethically and legally
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm
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20. Media and Information Literacy (MIL)
“Information and media literacy enables
people to interpret and make informed
judgments as users of information and
media, as well as to become skillful
creators and producers of information
and media messages in their own right.”
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15886&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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22. Metaliteracy in Practice
• Understand Format Type and Delivery Mode
• Evaluate User Feedback as Active Researcher
• Create a Context for User-generated
Information
• Evaluate Dynamic Content Critically
Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson “Reframing Information Literacy as a
Metaliteracy” College & Research Libraries. January 2011 72:62-78.
http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.full.pdf
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23. Metaliteracy in Practice
• Produce Original Content in Multiple Media
Formats
• Understand Personal Privacy, Information
Ethics and Intellectual Property Issues
• Share Information in Participatory
Environments
Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson “Reframing Information Literacy as a
Metaliteracy” College & Research Libraries. January 2011 72:62-78.
http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.full.pdf
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24. Metaliteracy Learning Goals
• Evaluate content, including dynamic content
(online content that changes and
evolves, such as article preprints, blogs, and
wikis), critically
• Understand personal privacy, information
ethics, and intellectual property issues in
changing technology environments
Developed as part of a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG) and
based on Mackey/Jacobson “Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy” College
& Research Libraries. January 2011 72:62-78 http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.full.pdf
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25. Metaliteracy Learning Goals
• Share information / collaborate in a variety
of participatory environments
• Demonstrate ability to connect learning and
research strategies with lifelong learning
processes and personal, academic, and
professional goals
Developed as part of a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG) and
based on Mackey/Jacobson “Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy” College
& Research Libraries. January 2011 72:62-78 http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.full.pdf
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26. Metaliteracy Learning Objectives
Four domains are represented:
1. Behavioral
2. Cognitive
3. Affective
4. Metacognitive
Developed as part of a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG) and
based on Mackey/Jacobson “Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy” College
& Research Libraries. January 2011 72:62-78 http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.full.pdf
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28. UNL 205, Information Literacy
General Education Course
Meets 7 times, once per week for 7
weeks
29. Some things I’ve used in my course
that involve aspects of Metaliteracy
Blog assignments
Students respond weekly to a posting involving
some aspect of information ethics, access, or
technology.
They gain the experience of doing this in an open
environment, as anyone can see their
postings, and classmates can respond to one
another.
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31. Favorite Comment from 3D Printing
Blog Assignment
“Maybe if open access allowed our school to no
longer have to pay for subscriptions to academic
journals and such, we could afford this.”
32. Some things I’ve used in my course
that involve aspects of Metaliteracy
Platform for team projects, involves learning to
edit content, embed RSS or Twitter
feeds, videos, images, etc. in an online
environment.
They are creating a resource by searching
for, finding, and incorporating other resources.
35. A recent multi-part assignment
Now that you’ve had a chance to post a few blog comments and get a feel for that, take the
same content (more or less) and try expressing it in different contexts and examine what
this does to the way the message is received.
INDIVIDUALLY:
1. Choose what you feel is one of your best blog posts from the homework.
2. Copy the content from that blog post into Tagxedo (tagxedo.com), choose a
shape/colors/etc. Tweet the URL of the image using your team’s Twitter account.
3. Take the content from that blog post and condense it into a 140 character tweet, and
post the tweet to your team’s twitter account.
AS A TEAM:
Answer the question: What difference does it make to express the same information in
these three different ways: Blog post, Word Cloud (tagxedo), and Tweet?
37. • Understand Format Type and delivery
mode
– YouTube video; software application needed
to create video and social media video site
• Evaluate User Feedback as Active
Researcher
– Related to selecting software application and
format; evaluating other examples online
• Create a Context for User-generated
Information
– Developing the
narrative, storyboard, design, sequence of
ideas; comments by users online
• Evaluate Dynamic Content Critically
– Self-reflection on narrative and
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38. • Produce Original Content in Multiple Media
Formats
– Student as producer of YouTube video
• Understand Personal Privacy, Information
Ethics and Intellectual Property Issues
– Decision about how and what to share;
privacy settings on YouTube video
• Share Information in Participatory
Environments
– Decision to share in open environment;
personal/public; link to other social spaces
(Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
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39. • Metacognitive
– Gain new insights about the process of
creating original information in these
environments
– Understand what one needs to know when
creating and sharing
– Recognize gaps in knowledge
– Seek new knowledge to adjust to challenging
situations
– Adapt to changing technologies
– Continuously Self-reflect
– Demonstrate empowerment through
interaction, communication, and presentation
– Reflect on production and participation
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41. Next MOOC for fall 2013:
#L4LLL
Literacies for Lifelong Learning
(a Metaliteracy MOOC)
42. Gregory Bobish
User Education/Reference Librarian
University Libraries
University at Albany, SUNY
Trudi E. Jacobson
Distinguished Librarian
Head of the Information Literacy Department
University Libraries
University at Albany, SUNY
Tom Mackey
Dean
Center for Distance Learning
Empire State College, SUNY
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