Reframining Digital Literacies: Beyond Flashy, Flimsy and Faddish Models
1. Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
Dublin City University
Berlin, Germany
6th December 2018
Reframining Digital Literacies:
Beyond Flashy, Flimsy and Faddish Models
5. Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
Dublin City University
Berlin, Germany
6th December 2018
Reframing Digital Literacies:
Beyond Flashy, Flimsy and Faddish Models
6.
7. The light comes
through the gaps
https://pixabay.com/en/train-tracks-walking-journey-alone-1081672/
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16. ‘You can’t just take something off
the shelf and expect it to work
just because it looks good’
(Belshaw, 2017)
17. “As the chapters that follow
attest, the most immediately
obvious facts about accounts of
digital literacy are that there
are many of them and that
there are significantly different
kinds of concepts on offer”
(Lankshear & Knobel, 2008, p.2).
18. Identified over 100 models and frameworks which to
greater or lesser extent purport to encapsulate the
various dimensions of digital skills, literacies or
competencies. http://allaboardhe.org/DSFramework2015.pdf
19. The literature is “broad and ambiguous, making
digital literacy a nebulous area that requires
greater clarification and consensus”
(Alexander, Adams Becker & Cummins, 2016, p.1).
https://www.nmc.org/publication/digital-literacy-an-nmc-horizon-project-strategic-brief/
27. 2017
Carretero, S., Vuorikari, R., & Punie, Y.
(2017). Available from
http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repo
sitory/bitstream/JRC106281/web-
digcomp2.1pdf_(online).pdf
29. • Who is telling the story?
• What is the story they are
telling?
• What story isn’t being told?
• What’s missing from the story?
Begs the question…
30. For the purpose of this report we define as...
“the capabilities which fit someone for living,
learning and working in a digital society, with the
knowledge that a digital society is ever evolving” (p.18).
http://allaboardhe.org/DSFramework2015.pdf
I’m now Ireland’s first Professor of Digital Learning and Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning based at Dublin City University. DCU is a young university with an innovative culture and mission of transforming lives and societies.
MB: The concept of digital literacy was first introduced back in 1997 and as this seminal book illustrates there are many and varied interpretations of this concept.
MB: In the UK JISC has published a number of models and frameworks for the HE sector which continue to evolve.