Helping Non-profits, and everyone else, understand what they need to know about collaboration, safety, and creativity in our online world

1. The ABC’s of
Digital Literacy

2. “Everyone has to achieve a
degree of digital literacy to
contribute to, and
participate in, the world we
inhabit.The question should
not be if we should teach
digital literacy, but how to
do teach it well.”

3. Definitions
“The ability to locate, organize,
understand, evaluate, and analyze
information using digital technology”

5. Definitions
“Digital literacy is not simply a means
by which we consume ever-increasing
amounts of data and information, but
a critical and creative means of
interacting with the world.”

6. 3 Core Competencies
 USE: technical fluency
 UNDERSTAND: comprehend, contextualize,
critically evaluate
 CREATE: produce content and effectively
communicate through various digital media
tools

7. Multi-Literacies

8. Multiple Literacies
 Technology: basic operating skills up through complex tasks
 Information: assess, critically evaluate, apply
 Visual: messages through objects, actions, symbols
 Communication: think, organize, connect
 Social: participation
 Media: images, audio, digital

9. 8 Elements of Digital Literacy

10. 8 Key Elements
 1. Cultural: Be sensitive to cultural differences
 2. Cognitive: How we think more than what we do
 3. Constructive:We need to engage, not just watch
 4. Communicative: How we communicate has changed
 5. Confident: Make mistakes and learn.Try.
 6. Creative: New approaches
 7. Critical: Read between the lines
 8.Civic: Responsibility. World view.

11. 5 Literacies

12. Definitions
“digital literacy does not replace,
or take precedence over,
any other literacy”

14. Infographics
“Information graphics or infographics
are graphic visual representations of
information, data or knowledge
intended to present information
quickly and clearly. ”

15. Infographics

16. Infographics

17. Memes
"an idea, behavior, or style that
spreads from person to person
within a culture".

18. Memes
Very powerful & rapid ways to:
Communicate messages
Engage a community
 Create awareness

22. Make A Meme

24. The Digital Divide
“The digital divide is a problem that
goes beyond schools that needs to be
closed not just with social policies but
with the technology industry making
sure their products are affordable.”

25. The Digital Divide
“Individual freedom and creativity,
and societal and economic
development, are becoming
dependent on a degree of digital
literacy.”

27. CriticalThinking

28. Safety & Awareness
 Look for discrepancies, bad grammar, spelling errors
 Don’t follow blindly
 Wait! Don’t click that link
 Malvertising
 Sponsored Ads
 Privacy

29. Safety & Awareness

31. Teaching Our Kids &Their Schools
"As we introduce technology in our
private and public schools, are we
thinking of creating thinkers so as to
advance our country's technology?"

32. Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum

33. Teaching Our Kids &Their Schools
 We need to teach our teachers first
 Parents need to give consent before kids get access
 Teachers need to be on Social Media to help lead by example
 The shifting role of educator to facilitator
 Free education apps come with a price
 New learning tools need checks & balances in place

35. Sponsored Social

36. Sponsored Social
“In whatever format they might
appear, readers should be able to
understand when they’re being
advertised to.”
Ed Murphy, founder, IZEA marketing

37. Sponsored Social
“It’s not a question of forgetting; it is that people are
purposely not disclosing,” he charged. “That is a real
detractor for the industry and people are trying to do
things right, because the currency that we’re dealing with
here is ultimately trust—the trust of the audience. As
soon as that trust starts to erode, the value of a
sponsored post or tweet or whatever it may be erodes
along with it.”

38. Privacy Issues
 67% Of 1494 websites surveyed globally collect children’s
personal information
 20 Sites surveyed in Alberta
 70% did NOT
 17 sites of the 20 had privacy policies
 BUT 71% did not have accessible ways to delete account info

39. Privacy Issues

40. Privacy Issues

41. Privacy Issues

43. A Plan of Action
Per Renee Hobbs, Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action
 Make responsible choices and access information by locating
and sharing materials and comprehending information and
ideas
 Analyze messages in a variety of forms by identifying the
author, purpose and point of view, and evaluating the quality
and credibility of the content
 Create content in a variety of forms, making use of language,
images, sound, and new digital tools and technologies

44. A Plan of Action con't
 Reflect on one’s own conduct and communication behavior
by applying social responsibility and ethical principles
 Take social action by working individually and collaboratively
to share knowledge and solve problems in the family,
workplace and community, and by participating as a member
of a community

45. Learning & Resources
 http://www.netliteracy.org/digital-literacy
 https://digitalliteracy.cornell.edu/
 http://digitalliteracy.us/
 http://mediasmarts.ca/
 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/digiteralliteracy
 https://www.canva.com/
 https://imgflip.com/memegenerator

46. My sincere thanks toTech Soup for
this opportunity, and to everyone
who is listening.
• JIGTechnologies@JIGTechnolgies
• Ch3rylB1sw4s@3ncr1pt3d
• www.jigitsupport.com