Digital
Literacies
&
Learning
Design
How is the digital world changing
practices?
Which practices have changed
more dramatically?
What technologies do you use?
Is this a good or a bad thing?
What technologies are being
discussed here?
“The modern world overwhelms
people with data and this is
confusing and harmful to the mind”
(Conrad Gessner,
1565)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicksherman/532754738/in/faves-cristinacosta/
“It will create forgetfulness in the
learners' souls, because they will
not use their memories.“
(Socrates, 469-399BC)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alancleaver/4460976042/in/faves-cristinacosta/
It socially isolates readers and
detracts from the spiritually uplifting
group practice of getting news from
the pulpit”
(Malesherbes, 1787)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37718677955@N01/181017723
It might hurt radio, conversation,
reading, and the patterns of family
living and result in the further
vulgarisation of American culture“
(Ellen Wartella, 1962)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88164721@N00/5607140169
“They exhaust the children's brains
and nervous systems with complex
and multiple studies,and ruin their
bodies by protracted imprisonment”
An article in the weekly medical journal
the Sanitarian, 1883
“It’s making us stupid”
(Nicholas Carr, 2008)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77697591@N00/675663779
Debate:
should schools ban or restrict
internet use by pupils because some
misuse it?
A Vision of K-12 Students Today
What literacies do we need?
What literacies do we need to
master in a world gone digital?
What are
Digital Literacies?
Your thoughts
http://padlet.com/wall/sux3ssk39wyd
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91903883@N00/2385264019
Digital literacies defines those who exhibit a
critical understanding and capability for
living, learning, and working in the digital
society. JISC, 2013
Critical understanding of …
Your thoughts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91903883@N00/2385264019
Different, competing definitions of
digital literacies
Digital literacies more than functional or
technical skills
Futurelab
https://sites.google.com/site/dlframework/the5resourcesframework
Juliet Hinrichsen and Antony Coombs
University of Greenwich
Your thoughts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91903883@N00/2385264019
How does this connect to
Curriculum for Excellence?
Within Curriculum for Excellence
literacy is defined as:
the set of skills which allows an individual to engage
fully in society and in learning, through the different
forms of language, and the range of texts, which
society values and finds useful.
Literacy across learning: principles and practice
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/10/16155220/13
Current society; current perceptions
Technology
is becoming
embedded
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86251769@N00/438190053
It’s a way of life!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40645538@N00/2796862756
Debatable?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91903883@N00/2385264019
Mobile(s) (devices) are here to stay…?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48600091327@N01/456992280
But...
Are we welcoming technology in
the Classroom?
How can we prepare the digital
literate learner?
Digital dissonance
“Learners do not appear ‘to see beyond’
the immediately obvious functionality of
the technology and there is little evidence
of transfer”
Clark et al, 2008, p.68
Creating a new kind of digital
divide...
…connected to digital Habit(u)s
And social class…(!)
Deursen, A. J. van, & Dijk, J. A. van. (2014). The digital divide shifts to
differences in usage. New Media & Society, 16(3), 507–526
Lower educated people make less use
of the Internet for personal
development than the higher educated.
Conversely, the lower educated use
the Internet more for gaming and social
interaction than the higher educated
Deursen & Dijk, 2014
“To possess the machines,
[they] only need economic
capital; to appropriate them
and use them in accordance
with their specific purpose
[they] must have access to
embodied cultural capital,
either in person or by proxy”
Pierre Bourdieu
1986
Learning Design to drive
technology
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sovietuk/5861614/sizes/l/
*Not* technology to drive the
curriculum
Where to begin?
... with the end!
What are learners to achieve?
How are learners to engage with
their learning?
Blooms taxonomy (revised)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10838559@N00/2098689730
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10838559@N00/2098689878
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallritual/505772429
Authentic learning requires
authentic assessment
Changing assessment
changing the way learners communicate their learning
Technology can support that
process...
... but cannot replace it!
as a book?
~Michael Coghlan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tearsandrain/3526002850/in/faves-
cristinacosta/
beyond the pdf...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/00015/5172592913/
Embedded
Moving
beyond
the
classroom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/440672445
from consumer to co-producer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danisarda/3939008630/
prosumer
learner centred
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14516894@N08/3983934498
social
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegas/814428452
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The role of the teacher?
creating contexts
for learning
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44315708@N00/109795806
66
The digital classroom is a mind-set!
Any technology tends to
create a new human
environment... Technological
environments are not merely
passive containers of people
but are active processes that
reshape people and other
technologies alike.
M. Mcluhan, 1962
Creating new challenges
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21314760@N00/1583345201
Project based
learning
http://www.flickr.com/photos/71477195@N00/204879104
Promoting forms of inquiry
http://www.flickr.com/photos/72211347@N00/327122302#
Encouraging
collaboration
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49512158@N00/3434414425
Unlocking potential
Creating your own blog
www.wordpress.com
In which area of the curriculum
(learning activities) would you like
to use technology?
 Search for examples online
 Think how you can integrate
technology in your lesson plans
 Use your blog to reflect about it
How can we use technology to
teach/support/motivate writing?

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Editor's Notes

  • #24 Rheingold – 5 Web Literacies Metacognition (aware of our activity online) Attention  Awareness of attention curve and how you distribute this to diff media Participation  gives individuals a sense of belonging, of having an active and tangible input  practising active citizenship online. From consumer to producer Collaboration  working and learning with other people . Closely related to participation  leveraging collective intelligence Network Awareness  closely related to Global dimension of networks via digital technology “The technical networks amplify and extend the fundamental human capability of forming social networks” (Rheingold, 2010). Also about reputation management and networked individuality Critical Consumption  Knowing how to evaluate a source and making a educated guess about its origins and if it’s trustworthy
  • #25 In recognising the need to promote literacies for a world in transition, Hinrichsen and Coombs (2013) have developed a critical literacy framework mapping curriculum design into learner attributes. In doing so, they built on Luke and Freebody’s (2003) “Four Resource Model” that encapsulates a multi-literate requirement for reading through the use of the following roles: (1) Code breaker, (2) Meaning maker, (3) Text user and (4) Text critic by “adding a fifth resource, Persona, to accommodate the social and identity relations of the contemporary digital environment” (ibid, n/d) This resulted in the “Five Resource Framework”
  • #61 the glue of the learning
  • #62 from consumers to producers from content buyers to content creators / enhancing content
  • #63 boots motivation appeals to new initiatives
  • #64 personal as in private