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How to be digitally literate
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Session Content
• Defining what Digital Literacy is and why it
is important for students
• Discussing where to find information for
assignments
• Different search techniques
• Evaluating sources for relevance and
credibility
• Next steps
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What is digital literacy?
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“Digital literacy includes the ability to find and use information (otherwise
known as information literacy) but goes beyond this to encompass
communication, collaboration and teamwork, social awareness in the digital
environment, understanding of e-safety and creation of new information. Both
digital and information literacy are underpinned by critical thinking and
evaluation.”
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Digital Literacy in the real world
What kind of information do you search the internet or social media for in your everyday life?
Pointer Your answer Pointer Your answer
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Why is digital literacy important for students?
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• Crucial to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Times Higher Education (no date)
• Advantage in competitive jobs markets
• Must be able to learn and adapt to new platforms continuously
• Demonstrating soft skills
• Improves communication and collaboration
• Post-COVID, much of academic life likely to continue to be online
• Crucial for access to resources, seminars, workshops and tutorials, writing, editing and
submitting work, and conducting different types of research
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Sources of information available to students
Sources of
information
News
Textbooks
Course
materials
Trade
publications
Scholarly
publications
Market
data,
statistics
and reports
Blogs and
social media
(Ivanou, 2021)
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What sources of information would help you answer
this assignment question?
What are the challenges faced by female entrepreneurs from ethnic minorities in the
computing field in the UK?
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Types of sources of information
Match the types of source to the type of information required:
1. Textbooks
2. Academic journal databases
3. Newspapers and websites
4. Company/business databases
5. Trade publications
a. Contemporary perspectives on current
events
b. An overview of the essential theories and
knowledge about a topic or subject
c. Discussions of professional practice and
experiences
d. Statistics, market data and trends, and
company profiles
e. In-depth analysis of specific topics
(QA Higher Education, no date a)
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Types of sources of information
Match the types of source to the type of information required:
1. Textbooks
2. Academic journal databases
3. Newspapers and websites
4. Company/business databases
5. Trade publications
a. Contemporary perspectives on current
events
b. An overview of the essential theories and
knowledge about a topic or subject
c. Discussions of professional practice and
experiences
d. Statistics, market data and trends, and
company profiles
e. In-depth analysis of specific topics
(QA Higher Education, no date a)
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Course materials
Where to start
Course textbooks
Core texts from reading list
(VLE Books: Computing Foundation, 2021)
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• Explain key theories and concepts logically and clearly – designed to give a
comprehensive overview of a subject
Why textbooks?
• Written by experts – authoritative
• Good source of key vocabulary and specialist terms – helps to develop your specialist
vocabulary for writing and doing more independent, in-depth research
• Include tools for improving understanding (e.g. case studies, indexes and glossaries)
• Help to avoid the common problem of searching for specific material too soon, by laying
a solid foundation of knowledge
(QA Higher Education, no date a)
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Reading Online: Your views?
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•Larger screen
•Warm background colours e.g. Peach, Orange
or Yellow (Rello and Bigham, 2017)
•Easy to read font e.g. Arial or Montserrat.
•Larger font e.g. zoom in on web browsers using
Ctrl + or Cmd + on a Mac (OU, 2020).
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Reading Online
Quick Guide
Reading Online: Tips
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Going beyond textbooks: Effective searching
When thinking about search terms, the first stage is to identify the key
words and phrases from the question.
Look at this assignment question and highlight the key words and
phrases.
What are the challenges faced by female entrepreneurs from ethnic
minorities in the computing field in the UK?
(QA Higher Education, no date b)
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Effective searching: Key words
When thinking about search terms, the first stage is to identify the key
words and phrases from the question.
Look at this essay question and highlight the key words and phrases.
What are the challenges faced by female entrepreneurs in the come
from ethnic minorities in the computing field in the UK?
(QA Higher Education, no date b)
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An important part of searching is using synonyms (e.g. ‘big’ = ‘large’).
What synonyms can you think of for each of our key words/phrases?
Effective searching: Synonyms
challenges
female
entrepreneur
ethnic minorities
Computing field
UK
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(QA Higher Education, no date b)
challenges difficulties barriers
female women
entrepreneur freelance(r) small business self-employed
ethnic minorities ethnic groups BAME
Computing field Technology Computer
technology
Information
technology
IT industry
UK Britain England, Wales,
Scotland and
Northern Ireland
Effective searching: Synonyms
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Ctrl + F
(Using Ctrl + F, 2018)
Search for terms in documents and webpages by pressing ‘Ctrl + F’
Brings up search bar
Scroll through each instance of the term in the text
Saves time looking through the whole document or webpage
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Use textbooks to generate search terms
Other search tips
• Give an overview of specialist topic areas and introduce key vocabulary
• Often have glossaries (short ‘dictionaries’ of subject-specific vocabulary)
Searching is not a one-off activity
• As understanding of the topic improves, further key aspects and better search terms arise
• Experimenting with search terms (e.g. synonyms) is often necessary
(QA Higher Education, no date b)
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Do you believe everything you read?
(Fake News Hero, 2020)
(Weight Loss 2, 2016)
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How do you decide what sources to trust?
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Is the author an expert? Is the website/book/magazine reputable?
Questions to ask yourself when evaluating
what you read
How convincing is the argument or point? What evidence has been used to support it? Are there
references provided to check the evidence?
Does the information confirm or contradict other sources you have read on the same topic?
Who is the author? What is the purpose of the text? (inform, persuade, sell, etc)
When was the text written? Is it still relevant?
Here are some examples of questions you could ask yourself to assess a source’s credibility:
(University of Leeds, 2021)
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Look at the source below. Do you think it would be useful as a source for an academic essay on UK
female entrepreneurs? Why/why not?
Examples: How useful is this source?
(Female CEO says adding entrepreneurship to curriculum would ‘empower kids’, 2021)
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Look at the source below. Do you think it would be useful as a source for an academic essay on UK
female entrepreneurs? Why/why not?
Examples: How useful is this source?
May not include much ‘concrete’
information and be based more on
opinion of one, possibly biased person
Newspaper itself will have an editorial
agenda and therefore may be biased
Reputable UK newspaper
Based on an interview with one person
Up-to-date
(Female CEO says adding entrepreneurship to curriculum would ‘empower kids’, 2021)
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Now look at the next source below. Would this one be useful as a source for the same essay?
Why/why not?
Examples: How useful is this source?
(The Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship, 2019)
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Now look at the next source below. Would this one be useful as a source for the same essay?
Why/why not?
Examples: How useful is this source?
Likely to be highly detailed, with a large
amount of factual data
Independent review commissioned by
HM Treasury and published by the UK
Government
May be a little old (pre-COVID!)
(The Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship, 2019)
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Examples of where to find more specialist or academic sources:
Beyond course books and materials
(Google Scholar search, 2021)
Google Scholar: scholarly articles
(Mintel, 2021)
Databases (e.g. Mintel): market data, company
profiles, reports, etc
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References
Fake News Hero (2020) Available at: https://beconnected.esafety.gov.au/quick-reads/how-to-spot-fake-news (Accessed: 3 August 2021).
Female CEO says adding entrepreneurship to curriculum would ‘empower kids’ (2021) [Screenshot]. Available at: https://www.independent.co.uk/business/female-ceo-says-adding-entrepreneurship-to-curriculum-would-
empower-kids-b1884743.html (Accessed: 3 August 2021).
Google Scholar search (2021) [Screenshot]. Available at: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22female+entrepreneur%22+AND+BAME+AND+UK&btnG= (Accessed: 3 August 2021).
Ivanou, I. (2021) If you love your students, don’t make them search in the wrong places. Available at: https://sway.office.com/82OcQfCOVpGA7jDT (Accessed: 29 July 2021).
Mintel (2021) [Screenshot]. Available at: https://clients.mintel.com/ (Accessed: 3 August 2021).
QA Higher Education (no date a) ‘Textbooks’, Library Portal. Available at: https://library.qahighereducation.com/textbooks (Accessed: 31 July 2021).
QA Higher Education (no date b) ‘Effective Search’, Library Portal. Available at: https://library.qahighereducation.com/guides/searching (Accessed: 31 July 2021).
Open University (2020) Techniques for Reading Online Material. Available at: https://help.open.ac.uk/techniques-for-reading-online-material (Accessed 3 August 2020).
Open University (2021) Digital and Information Literary Framework. Available at: https://www.open.ac.uk/libraryservices/subsites/dilframework/ (Accessed 13 May 2021).
Rello, L. and Bigham, J. (2017). Good Background Colors for Readers: A Study of People with and without Dyslexia. pp. 72-80. Available at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3132525.3132546 (Accessed: 17 August 2021).
Squire, T. (no date) Fake news headlines: Computer Virus Spreads to Humans. Available at: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/squire0076/fake-news-headlines/ (Accessed: 3 August 2021).
The Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship (2019) [Screenshot]. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-alison-rose-review-of-female-entrepreneurship (Accessed: 3 August 2021).
Times Higher Education (no date) Why digital literacy is essential for 21st-century universities. Available at: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/hub/adobe/p/why-digital-literacy-essential-21st-century-universities (Accessed
20 May 2021).
University of Leeds (2021) ‘Critical thinking questions’, Academic skills: Critical thinking. Available at: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/37/critical_thinking_questions (Accessed 30 July 2021).
Using Ctrl + F (2018) Available at: https://writingcenter.wfu.edu/tips-and-tricks/using-ctrl-f (Accessed: 13 August 2021).
VLE Books: Computing Foundation (2021) [Screenshot]. Available at: https://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/Home/index (Accessed: 310 July 2021)
Weight Loss 2 (2016) Available at: https://www.nutritionaction.com/wp-content/uploads/weight-Loss-2.png (Accessed: 3 August 2021).
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ACE resources:
• How to be Digitally Literate video 1 and video 2 (latter extends today's
content)
• Critical Thinking for Your Studies – video and workshop
• Evaluating Sources and Reading Critically video guides
• Reading Online Quick Guide
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Editor's Notes
Define what we mean by ‘DL’ and discuss why it is important for students and HE
Think about where to find information for academic purposes at this level
Introduce some more advanced search techniques
Consider how to evaluate sources for relevance and reliability
Think about how we might build on these skills in future and at higher levels of study
What do you think we mean by the term ‘DL’? (annotate)
: OU definition of DL
Focus on critical thinking and evaluation: ability not just to find sources of information for our needs, but also to process and judge them. Is the info reliable? Is it relevant to our purposes? Can we trust it? Is it up-to-date?
We will focus on both of these aspects in this session
DL in the real world (annotate)
Think about how you use the internet and social media in your own life and answer these questions:
What kind of information do you search the internet or social media for in your everyday life?
How do you select which information you use? How do you decide whether to trust something you read online or not?
Why is DL important for students? (annotate)
Why is DL important for students?
Crucial for students to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Graduates who are able to demonstrate digital skills stand out to recruiters and have an advantage in competitive jobs markets. Developing digital literacy at university gives graduates an advantage when entering competitive and evolving job market
Familiarity with a range of platforms at university is important, and the ability to learn and adapt to new ones is an essential 21st century skill
In-demand soft skills such as communication, creativity and collaboration can be demonstrated tangibly through digital portfolios.
Digital tools can improve collaboration and create more opportunities for student-led discussion.
Although the pandemic is starting to ease and things are returning to normality, much of our academic and professional lives are likely to remain online/tech-based.
The digital realm is key for access to resources, participation in seminars, workshops and tutorials, writing, editing and submitting work and conducting different types of research
Types of sources of info
Now we’re going to think about how we might find information to help us with our studies.
What type of information would help you answer this assignment question? (annotate)
Essay Q: What are the challenges faced by female entrepreneurs from ethnic minorities in the UK?
What sources of information can you think of that would help you answer it?
Types of sources of info activity (annotate)
On the left are some examples of different types of sources we might use when looking for information to help us answer an essay question.
On the right, we have different types of information we might need.
They are not in the right order….
Match type of source with type of info required
Types of sources of info activity
Answers:
Textbooks – Overview of essential theories & knowledge (‘helicopter’ view)
Academic journal databases – In-depth analysis of specific topics
Newspapers/sites – contemporary perspectives
Company/business databases – stats, market data, trends, profiles
Trade publications – professional practice and experiences
Where to start
The materials provided on your course will give you information on the key concepts of the subject, and will correspond to the content of your lectures
Exploring core texts from the module reading list will provide you with further depth and detail on essential topics
Course textbooks provide an accessible overview of the topic
Why textbooks?
Textbooks are often the best place to start your research:
They are ‘purpose built’ to help learners understand the theories and concepts that are central to the subject and are indexed and organised logically, meaning that information is easy to find
They are written by experts.
They are also a good source of specialist vocabulary, which can also be used as search terms to improve the effectiveness of your own searches
They also include tools for getting a better understanding of the subject, including illustrations, case studies, indexes and glossaries.
Reading online: Your views (annotate)
Most texts are now available online as well as in printed form now, including textbooks.
How do you feel about reading online? Do you find it more difficult than reading from a page? What are the advantages/disadvantages of reading online?
Reading online tips
Larger screen
Warm background colours e.g. Peach, Orange or Yellow (Rello and Bigham, 2017)
Easy to read font e.g. Arial or Monserrat.
Larger font e.g. zoom in on web browsers using Ctrl + or Cmd + on a Mac (OU, 2020).
Signpost to Reading Online Quick Guide
Effective searching (annotate)
Also necessary to broaden your range of sources for your assignments to find more specific or detailed information, so you will need to search for information
Essential to minimise time wasted reading/searching for irrelevant material (very common problem!)
Therefore, finding good information quickly is important, meaning that choosing the right search terms is important too
Same principle as searching on Google for everyday information – you need to think about the words you are using to search
Good search terms can be:
single words
groups of words in stable phrases representing a single idea
Should be as short and precise as possible
When searching for sources to help you write an essay, start with the question
First step = highlighting key words
Look at question and highlight key words
Effective searching (cont.)
answers
Effective searching (cont.)
Often necessary to think of alternative phrases to increase the amount of results you get, or because you don’t find what you need immediately (again, just like when googling something)
‘synonym’ definition
Ss brainstorm synonyms
Effective searching (cont.)
Answers
Over to you – Students try searching Google using the search terms
Ctrl + F
On websites, or in Word or other documents, you can search the text by pressing ‘Ctrl + F’
This brings up a search bar for you to type what you are looking for
You can then scroll through each instance of the term in the text
This saves you time looking through the whole document or webpage for something specific
Other search tips
Textbooks can be a great source for search terms (key vocab, glossaries, etc)
As in ‘everyday’ searches, we often have to repeat and experiment with searches to get good results
As knowledge of the subject and key terms deepens, searching will become more effective (better search terms and better understanding of what you are looking for)
A piece of paper and pen are useful throughout this process, helping us to remember and see the connections and gaps between our search terms.
Link in chat: https://library.qahighereducation.com/guides/searching
Do you believe everything you read?
When using the internet and social media in daily life, it is important to be able to evaluate what you see and read because some of it is unreliable or even fake
Same goes when searching for information for academic purposes
We need to be confident that the information we use is reliable
We use information in our assignments to support our arguments, so if it is unreliable, our arguments won’t be built on a solid foundation
How do you decide what sources to trust? (annotate)
How do you decide whether something you read on the internet is true or not?
What questions do you ask yourself?
uestions to ask yourself when evaluating info
Go thru Qs
Elicit others from Ss?
The process of making judgments about the credibility, reliability and value of information
Involves:
not accepting things at face value
thinking about why something was written (inform, persuade, etc)
considering the authority the writer has – are they an expert?
deciding if the information is relevant to your needs – is it related to the time/place/situation/context you are concerned with?
checking it is up-to-date or not
This is a crucial skill in higher education – one that you need to build on as you progress!
Examples – How useful is this source? (annotate)
Ss to put comments in chat
Examples – How useful is this source?
answers
possibly too biased/based on one person’s opinion
might be useful for one perspective, but bias must be recognised
Examples – How useful is this source? (annotate)
Ss to put comments in chat
Examples – How useful is this source?
answers
good source: independent, lots of detail
BUT: pre-COVID?!
Beyond course books and materials
Google Scholar
Databases
More ‘expert’ and specialised sources (e.g. academic journal articles) will be necessary at higher levels of study
At lower levels, less necessary and getting bogged down in trying to find information from them can be detrimental
More challenging sources and platforms, but fundamental skills are the same:
effective searching
critical thinking when selecting info
Developing these skills at lower levels = easier at higher levels!
