This document discusses digital literacies and related topics including growth mindset, digital citizenship, and using Google Cardboard in education. It provides tips for promoting a growth mindset in students, focusing on effort and learning from mistakes rather than innate ability. It discusses the elements of digital literacies like finding, evaluating, sharing and creating online content. It raises questions about whether digital literacy should be taught in schools and how the concept of digital citizenship could be expanded. The document concludes by announcing a session on using Google Cardboard at the Great North Museum the following Tuesday.

1. Digital Literacies
Dr James Stanfield
Tuesday 5th November

2. Plan of Action
Part I: Essay feedback
Part 2: Growth mindset
Part 3: Digital Literacies
Part 4: Digital Cardboard

3. Essay feedback
• Continue to develop your PLN – 3 ways in which they are evolving
• Avoid theoretical commentary without linking it to your own experience
• Try and think of learning as a broad concept - social and emotional learning
(SEL), emotional intelligence, subconscious learning, tolerance, respect etc
etc
Essay No. 2
• To ban or not to ban?

4. Growth Mindset

7. 8 tips for promoting a growth mindset in kids:
1. Help children understand that the brain works like a muscle, that can only grow through hard work,
determination, and lots and lots of practice.
2. Don’t tell students they are smart, gifted, or talented, since this implies that they were born with the knowledge,
and does not encourage effort and growth.
3. Let children know when they demonstrate a growth mindset.
4. Praise the process. It’s effort, hard work, and practice that allow children to achieve their true potential.
5. Don’t praise the results. Test scores and rigid ways of measuring learning and knowledge limit the growth that
would otherwise be tapped.
6. Embrace failures and missteps. Children sometimes learn the most when they fail. Let them know that mistakes
are a big part of the learning process. There is nothing like the feeling of struggling through a very difficult
problem, only to finally break through and solve it! The harder the problem, the more satisfying it is to find the
solution.
7. Encourage participation and collaborative group learning. Children learn best when they are immersed in a topic
and allowed to discuss and advance with their peers.
8. Encourage competency-based learning. Get kids excited about subject matter by explaining why it is important
and how it will help them in the future. The goal should never be to get the ‘correct’ answer, but to understand
the topic at a fundamental, deep level, and want to learn more.

8. As a parent or teacher what triggers YOUR fixed mindset?
Dweck also offers the following advice for educators and parents when considering our OWN fixed mindset
triggers.
1. Watch for a fixed-mindset reaction when you face challenges. Do you feel overly anxious, or does a voice in
your head warn you away?
2. Watch for it when you face a setback in your teaching or parenting, or when children aren’t listening or
learning. Do you feel incompetent or defeated? Do you look for an excuse?
3. Watch to see whether criticism or complaints brings out your fixed mindset. Do you become defensive, angry,
or crushed instead of interested in learning from the feedback?
4. Watch what happens when you see another parent or teacher who’s better than you at something you value.
Do you feel envious and threatened, or do you feel eager to learn?
5. Accept those thoughts and feelings and work with and through them. And keep working with and through
them.
6. Remember, you’re on a growth-mindset journey, too.

10. With the growth of the internet and
increasing access to knowledge and
information, is the growth mindset now
even more important?
Do we now not have much better access
to learning opportunities of every
different kind?
The question is a) do we want to take
advantage of them and b) do we know
how?

11. The Essential Elements of
Digital Literacies by Doug
Belshaw

12. • Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create
content using information technologies and the Internet.
• Digital Literacy is important in education, the workforce and generally for
every internet user.
• Digital Literacy is one component of Digital Citizenship.
• Digital literacy is when students can manipulate and evaluate data to
construct their own meaning.
• Digital literacy is using technologies to find, use and disseminate
information.
• Digital literacy is the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and
create information using a range of digital technologies.
• Digital literacy is a process, not a tool.
• Digital literacy is an essential part of job-readiness, socialization and
independence.
• Digital literacy is the ability to understand and use information in multiple
formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers.
Digital Literacies

27. Should digital literacy be taught in
schools alongside traditional
literacy?
What changes might we expect in
the future?

28. What does the concept of
digital citizen fail to take into
account?
Digital citizenship – Connected Learning Alliance

29. Google cardboard

30. Tuesday 11am Hancock/Great
North Museum.
Six Awesome TED Talks About Storytelling
https://museumhack.com/six-awesome-ted-talks/…

31. #edu8213