Presentation at DigCit Summit, Science Gallery, Dublin, 28th April 2018.

1. Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
Dublin City University
Dublin, Ireland
28th April 2018
Reimagining the Future:
Digital Literacies for Critical Citizenship

3. The light comes
through the gaps
https://pixabay.com/en/train-tracks-walking-journey-alone-1081672/
@mbrownz

4. Finding the Gaps

5. E

7. Critical thinkers
Critical consumers
Critical citizens

8. “Future Makers”
rather than
‘future takers’

11. World Economic Forum
(2016)
https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/8-digital-skills-
we-must-teach-our-children-f37853d7221e

12. ‘You can’t just take something off
the shelf and expect it to work
just because it looks good’
(Belshaw, 2017)

13. “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).

14. 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

15. 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/

19. 15 Sub Elements
Digital Capability Framework

21. http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC101
254/jrc101254_digcomp%202.0%20the%20digital%20competen
ce%20framework%20for%20citizens.%20update%20phase%20
1.pdf

22. “… participating in society,”
http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC101
254/jrc101254_digcomp%202.0%20the%20digital%20competen
ce%20framework%20for%20citizens.%20update%20phase%20
1.pdf

23. 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

24. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/sites/jrcsh/files
/DIGCOMP-FINAL-
%20UPDATED%2002-06-2016.pdf

25. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/sites/jrcsh/files
/DIGCOMP-FINAL-
%20UPDATED%2002-06-2016.pdf
What’s the
problem?

26. 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

30. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0025/002590/259013e.pdf

31. Digital literacies are about
critical mindsets rather than
merely developing technical skillsets

32. https://pixabay.com/en/india-slums-poor-brother-sister-2507482/

33. Three final points…

34. “All education springs from images of the future and all
education creates images of the future. Thus all education,
whether so intended or not, is a preparation for the
future. Unless we understand the future for which we are
preparing we may do tragic damage to those we teach”
(Toffler, 1974).
Three final points…

35. “Digital literacies
should be in the service of
big ideas,
not as a big idea
in itself”
(adapted from Barnett, 2011)

36. Digital citizenship
should promote agency
that challenges our ideas
of what constitutes the
“good society”
and help shape
better futures — for all

37. https://nidl.blog

40. 2019 Conference
Dublin

41. Go raibh maith
agaibh!
Thank you
@mbrownz