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The Digital Literacy Movement: Utopian or Dystopian Development?
Professor Mark Brown and Dr Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl from Dublin City University gave a presentation titled "The Digital Literacy Movement: Utopian or Dystopian Development?" There is no single definition of digital literacy and over 100 models exist. Current models are often too prescriptive and lack context. Digital literacies should be reframed to focus on critical thinking skills, participation in society, and shaping technology for positive social change rather than just skills development. The conclusion is that digital literacies are not on an independent trajectory and active citizenry is needed to help shape better digital futures for all.
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- 1. Professor Mark Brown andDr Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl Dublin City University Reykjavik, Iceland 8th June 2017 The Digital Literacy Movement: Utopian or Dystopian Development?
- 2. DystopianUtopian The Digital LiteracyMovement: Utopian or Dystopian Development?
- 3. @mbrownz National Institute forDigital Learning @1MNGM
- 4. Open Education Unit The Ideas Lab Off-campus Online Delivery Teaching Enhancement Unit On-campus Blended Delivery Learning Design National Institutefor Digital Learning New Innovative Models of Delivery Research Network
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- 6. Three questions… • Whatis digital literacy? • What is missing in current models? • How should we reframe digital literacies?
- 7. • Inherently political •Part of wider social practice • Entangled in contradictory discourses Three takeaways…
- 8. Different interest groupsand stakeholders are borrowing the same ‘languages of persuasion’ of digital literacies to legitimize very different agenda
- 9. 1. What isdigital literacy?
- 11. “ICT Literacy isusing digital technology, communication tools, and/or networks to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information in order to function in a knowledge society.”
- 13. “As the chaptersthat 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. 2015 Identified over 100models and frameworks which to greater or lesser extent purport to encapsulate the various dimensions of digital skills, literacies or competencies.
- 15. ‘There is nosingle universal definition of digital literacy’ (Hoechsmann & DeWaard, 2015, p.4).
- 16. 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/
- 17. ‘The term denotesa combined critical and practical understanding of digital technologies in socio-cultural settings, recognizing that users are creators as well as observers’ (Alexander, Adams Becker & Cummins, 2016, p.4). https://www.nmc.org/publication/digital-literacy-an-nmc-horizon-project-strategic-brief/
- 21. Digital Capability Framework TheSix Elements
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- 27. ‘You can’t justtake something off the shelf and expect it to work just because it looks good’ (Belshaw, 2017)
- 28. 2. What ismissing in current models?
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- 37. New Literacy Studies Anyattempt to define [digital] literacies needs to be ‘…located as part of social practices and occur within culturally constructed instances or literacy events’ (Bhatt, 2017, p.1).
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- 39. “I’ve been askedmany times for a diagram of the eight essential elements, something that will fit nicely on a PowerPoint slide. While I can do so I feel that this perpetuates a problem I’ve seen time and time again... People over-specify an answer to a question that differs massively according to the context” (Doug Belshaw, 2015, p.58).
- 41. For the purposeof this report we can define digital skills, literacies or competencies 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).
- 42. “… participating insociety...”
- 45. 3. How shouldwe reframe digital literacies?
- 46. Digital litercies are aboutthe struggle for POWER and control Who? Why?
- 47. Digital literacies areabout changing mindsets rather than developing narrow skill-sets
- 48. Critical Consumers Critical Citizens LEARNING TO BE LEARNING TO KNOW LEARNING TODO LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER Critical Thinkers Digital literacies are about what it means to be an educated person in the 21st Century
- 49. Digital literacies areabout our ideas of what constitutes the good society for the future
- 50. Digital literacies areabout (re)shaping our societies for better futures—for all.
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- 52. Conclusion… • No singleframework • Not on independent trajectory • Active citizenry for shaping better futures
- 53. ‘Beware of falseknowledge; It is more dangerous then ignornance’ George Bernard Shaw
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Title slide only ----- Meeting Notes (5/03/17 10:33) -----
- #3 DB: Hello my name is Deirdre Butler and… MB: Hello my name is Mark Brown and... MB: The intention of this fishbowl session is to put the spotlight on the importance of learning transformation.
- #14 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.
- #15 MB: This is a point reiterated in the review of existing models and framework undertaken at the start of the All Aboard project, which identified over 100 of them (All Aboard, 2015). For example…
- #20 MB: In the UK JISC has published a number of models and frameworks for the HE sector which continue to evolve.
- #26 MB: This version of the quadrant analysis illustrates that very few of the models and frameworks combine critical literacies within an authentic embedded approach. The concept of critical literacy here extends to understanding the impact technology has on wider society and deeper questions of sustainability.
- #27 MB: This version of the quadrant analysis illustrates that very few of the models and frameworks combine critical literacies within an authentic embedded approach. The concept of critical literacy here extends to understanding the impact technology has on wider society and deeper questions of sustainability.
- #34 Every organization’s context is different. You’re painting with different brushes with a different pallet.
- #35 MB: In this case it would be fair to locate TPACK in the upper right quadrant as it is one of the most researched frameworks and embeds new digital technology in an existing and well established framework for teacher knowledge. More recent adaptations have incorporated TPACK in a wider ecological context.
- #39 MB: In this case it would be fair to locate TPACK in the upper right quadrant as it is one of the most researched frameworks and embeds new digital technology in an existing and well established framework for teacher knowledge. More recent adaptations have incorporated TPACK in a wider ecological context.
- #40 MB: As this quote shows he has also resisted requests to try to present the eight essential elements in a simple diagram as the instructional and institutional context is crucial.
- #41 MB: The 8 elements of digital literacies arise out of Doug Belshaw’s doctoral research and notably he places a particular emphasis on critical and civic literacies which incorporate a socio-political perspective.
- #42 MB: As this slide shows many third level institutions have signed up to participate in the week. For various reasons DCU chose not to participate in this initiative.
- #44 MB: As this slide shows many third level institutions have signed up to participate in the week. For various reasons DCU chose not to participate in this initiative.
- #45 DB
- #51 DB: It’s also notable that very few of the other frameworks are anchored in the Sustainable Development Goals which are currently our best effort at attempting to articulate a transformative agenda with a moral purpose.
- #56 DB: Hello my name is Deirdre Butler and… MB: Hello my name is Mark Brown and... MB: The intention of this fishbowl session is to put the spotlight on the importance of learning transformation.