Presented at LOEX 2017 with Trudi Jacobson Librarians and faculty members from three institutions collaborated to adapt a metaliteracy Digital Citizen badge for use with graduate literacy education students. The multi-faceted goal is not only for these students to affirm their roles as digital citizens, but also to actively teach and model such citizenship to their prospective students. This grant-funded project, which adapts content from an existing metaliteracy badging system, incorporates mechanisms to encourage a community of users, and serves as a model for collaborations with faculty across various disciplines. In this session, project collaborators will briefly introduce metaliteracy (metaliteracy.org), provide an overview of the badging system (metaliteracybadges.org), and discuss the components added for this project, and mechanisms that worked well for collaborating. We are not only concerned with collaboration within the grant team; we also built components that will encourage educators to create open access learning objects for an Educators Corner and an Educators Conference. Drawing from expertise as co-creators and researchers in initiatives such as the new ACRL Information Literacy Framework and the Connecting Credentials (connectingcredentials.org) and Global Learning Qualifications Frameworks (funded by the Lumina Foundation), we have worked together to create a robust resource that will be available to every SUNY institution, and, ultimately, to interested institutions beyond SUNY. We encourage participants to actively engage in the presentation by contributing ideas for badging opportunities based on your own professional development and curricular goals to an open forum in the Educators Corner.

1. TEACH THE TEACHERS,
REACH THE STUDENTS:
BADGING FOR DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
Trudi Jacobson
Distinguished Librarian
Kelsey O’Brien
Senior Assistant Librarian
Information Literacy Department
University at Albany

2. Overview
• Metaliteracy
• Digital Badging
• Grant Project
• Learning Pathways
• Lessons Learned
• Moving Forward
• Over to You

3. METALITERACY

4. ”
“ Metaliteracy promotes critical thinking and
collaboration in a digital age, providing a comprehensive
framework to effectively participate in social media and
online communities.
Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson “Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy”
College & Research Libraries. January 2011 72:62.
http://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/16132

6. Metaliteracy
• A framework defined by learning learning goals and objectives
• Inherently fluid
• It works as an overlay for all disciplines
• Invites the adoption of different or enhanced roles
• It encourages risk taking for learners and teachers (Empowered
Learner)

7. Metacognitive: what
learners think about
their own thinking - a
reflective
understanding of how
and why they learn,
what they do and do
now know, their
preconceptions, and
how to continue to
learn.
Cognitive: what
students should know
upon successful
completion of learning
activities --
comprehension,
organization, application,
evaluation.
Affective: changes in
learners’ emotions or
attitudes through
engagement with
learning activities.
Behavioral: what
students should be able
to do upon successful
completion of learning
activities--skills,
competencies.
Mackey and Jacobson (2014) Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners
Four Domains of Metaliteracy

8. Metaliteracy
• Meta: Unites literacies
• One of the underlying supports of the ACRL Framework
• Metaliteracy Learning Collaborative
• Goal: Keep both the core conception and flexibility with a move to digital
badging

9. DIGITAL BADGING

10. WHAT IS A DIGITAL BADGE?
• A record of achievement
• Indication of a demonstrated skill
or ability
• A reward acknowledging an
accomplishment
• Evidence of learning
• Verification of competency
• Validation of non-traditional skills
or experiences
CC-BY Girl Guides of Canada

11. Image Source: https://credly.com/badge-builder

12. Workplace Community
K-12 Higher Ed
Detroit Digital AdventureCities of LearningDigital PromiseMicrosoft Educator NetworkIBM
Aurora Public Schools Badge ProgramDigitalMe (UK) Purdue Passport Penn State Digital Badges

13. The Metaliteracy Badges
metaliteracy.org/learning-objectives

18. IMPLEMENTATIONS
• UUNI 110: Writing and Critical Inquiry
• ECPY204U: Principles of Career and Life Planning
• AENG 240V: Writing America
• UNL 207: Information Literacy
• ESPY 120: Psychology of Academic and Personal Effectiveness
• Honors Program
• ERDG 500: Classroom Literacy Instruction
• IINF 200: Research Methods
• RPOS 250: Current Policy Debates Viewed Through a Social Science Lens
• GOG 160: China: People and Place
• CEHC 210: Critical Inquiry and Communication

19. GRANT PROJECT
CONTEXT AND GOALS

20. SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants
● Enhance teaching and learning by providing affordable, innovative, and
flexible education in a full range of instructional formats
● Develop instructional talent by creating and supporting communities of
practice across disciplines and institutions
● Support, monitor and embrace research on pedagogical practices to
continually improve the instructional practices of SUNY faculty
● Extend teaching and learning environments to provide new avenues for
development and delivery of collaborative content, courses, and programs
in New York and across the globe

21. Grant Goals
• Scaling the Metaliteracy Badging System for Open SUNY: Collaborative
Customization for Teacher Education Programs
http://commons.suny.edu/iitg/view/project-view/entry/466/
• Collaborative project: University at Albany & Empire State College
• Adapt Metaliteracy Badging System to produce a customized badge for
teacher education programs
• Include a suite of resources for higher education faculty and K-12 educators
interested in metaliteracy and digital badging

22. Grant Goals
• Enhance students’ ability to participate successfully and responsibly as
digital citizens
• Foreground exciting disciplinary overlaps between literacy studies and
metaliteracy
• Become available to all interested SUNY institutions

23. Additional Team Members
• Michele Forte
Assistant Professor, Community and Human Services
SUNY Empire State College
• Stephanie Affinito (PI)
Department of Literacy Teaching and Learning
University at Albany
• Donna Mahar
Program Coordinator, Master of Arts in Teaching
SUNY Empire State College
• Karen Gardner-Athey
SUNY Office of Library & Information Services

24. Digital Citizenship
• Critical area of knowledge, both
K-12 and beyond
• International Society for Technology
in Education (ISTE) standards
• SUNY Task Force on Social Media
Responsibility
• No one’s responsibility to teach
in some depth
• Teaching graduate students who
will then teach at K-12 level a
double benefit

25. Digital Citizenship for Educators
Customization Features
• Rubrics
• Templates
• Guides
• Pilot for future collaborations

26. Challenges

27. TAKE AWAY: LEARNING PATHWAYS

28. LEARNING PATHWAYS
Image Source: Concentricsky.com https://concentricsky.com/articles/detail/open-pathways-connect-badges-to-what-you-care-about

29. LEARNING PATHWAYS: GOALS
1) Integrate mechanisms for customizing and remixing metaliteracy content
according to disciplinary themes;
2) Extend and apply metaliteracy concepts to specific disciplines, programs and
courses with customized metaliteracy “tokens;”
3) Model potential applications of the Metaliteracy Badging System that will
facilitate use by all SUNY faculty members.

30. Pathway Builder

31. LEARNING PATHWAYS FOSTER COLLABORATION
• Shared responsibility between librarian and disciplinary instructors
• Informative vs. prescriptive -- conversation starters
• Illustrates the many facets of metaliteracy
• Openness to new content - seeing where collaborations lead

32. LESSONS LEARNED

33. Lessons Learned
Collaborations may find you if you
promote your project to diverse
groups
Look for points of congruence—start
conversations
Flexibility is the key

34. Lessons Learned
Money helps
More money helps more

35. Lessons Learned
Allow for more time: it will take
longer than expected
How does that affect
collaboration?
Have a plan B

36. Lessons Learned about Collaborative Venture
Course integration has to be:
Well-planned
Valued
Integrated into an overall system of content

37. MOVING FORWARD

38. Educator’s Corner
http://iitgbadges.wixsite.com/educatorscorner/

39. Educators Conference
• “Fostering Digital Citizenship and Learner Agency:
Badging in an Emerging Ecosystem”
• August 2017
• Opportunity to expand the conversation about digital
badging and digital literacy

40. Spin-Offs
• Metaliteracy Augmented Reality Quest (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
• Get Health’e’: Using Digital Badging to Improve Health Literacy Skills for
Young Adults (University at Albany)
• Community College - (Monroe Community College)
• Academic Integrity pathway (University at Albany)
• K-12 connections
• Political science pathways (University at Albany)

41. Your choice...
Questions
or
Develop your own ideas for pathways, badges, or collaborations

42. BADGING/PATHWAY OPPORTUNITY
BRAINSTORMING
Please pair up with someone near you and discuss how you might use what
you’ve learned about:
• What would your next steps be?
• Where would it fit in on your campus?
• Who might you enlist as a collaborator?
• What stakeholders need to be engaged?
• What hurdles do you anticipate?
Please post your thoughts on Padlet: https://padlet.com/tjacobson/LOEX2017

43. Thanks for attending!
Let’s continue the conversation:
https://padlet.com/tjacobson/LOEX2017
@metaliteracy
Conference link: https://sites.google.com/view/digitalconference
Educator’s Corner: http://iitgbadges.wixsite.com/educatorscorner
tjacobson@albany.edu
klobrien@albany.edu