Digital Literacies for Academia, Employability and Active Citizenship

1. Digital Literacies for
Academia, Employability
and Active Citizenship
Vicky Grant
Head of Library Learning Services
Pete Mella
Learning Technologist
Caterina Sciamanna
Library Digital Skills Coordinator

2. Image by JISC reproduced under the CC BY-NC-ND licence
JISC (2014) Developing digital literacies [online], available: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-digital-literacies [accessed 08
March 2016].

3. Finding
Reading
Questioning
Managing
Creating
Communicating
Which digital
tools do you
use for these
information
literacies?
Information and digital literacy for academia,
employability and for active digital citizenship

4. In this session
• What does assessment look like?
• Do students have the literacies to support
this?
• Image task
• Conclusions
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5. What does assessment look
like?
On your tables, after a short discussion, draw an
image of what assessment looks like to you. You
can be as literal or metaphorical as you like!
You have 10 minutes.
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6. “What’s the word count of an image?”
University of Sheffield Student
“Don’t use third party images, it’s too
complicated”
University of Sheffield Lecturer
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7. What information, academic and digital
literacies are needed to support this?
You are given an assignment to the following, as a group:
Produce a creative image that represents the estimated
future population of 10bn people, and the challenges this
would bring to the world.
In groups of 4 – 5 people, discuss – what literacies do
students need to support this task?
Add your ideas to Padlet:
https://padlet.com/p_mella/literacies
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8. Subject knowledge blended with information,
academic and digital literacy including:
• Information skills
• General IT skills
• Image sourcing
• Knowledge of specific
image software
• Artistic skill
•Knowledge of
copyright/IP
• Awareness of
plagiarism
• Ethics
• Team-work
• Delegation
• Digital footprint
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9. Copyright issues…
• Copyright is an automatic right granted to protect
creators’ intellectual property.
• Infringing copyright is a criminal offence.
• Something being openly available on the
Internet does not make it ‘Public Domain’!
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10. When you can use material…
• Expired copyright
• Fair dealing
• Criticism & Review
• Reporting of factual events
• Incidental usage
• Examinations
• Creative Commons
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11. Creative Commons (CC)
• 0 – Effectively Public Domain
• Attribution – Requires a credit
• Non Commercial – Can’t be used for commercial
purposes
• No Derivative Works – Can’t be remixed in any
way
• Share Alike – Can be remixed, but what’s
created must also be released with a CC
License.* © The University of Sheffield

12. Plagiarism
• Even if something is used correctly via Public
Domain or a Creative Commons 0 License, it
must still be credited academically.
• Audiovisual citation guidelines -
http://bufvc.ac.uk/projects-research/avcitation
• Developing Library Harvard referencing tutorial
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13. Now you’re the student
Assignment: Produce a creative image that
represents the estimated future population of 10bn
people, and the challenges this would bring to the
world.
Task: In your groups find two images for the
project, using the sites suggested or others that
you are familiar with.
You might find this doc useful
Post your images on the Padlet wall:
https://padlet.com/p_mella/images
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14. Information and digital literacy for
digital citizenship
Essential elements of digital literacies
Belshaw, D. (2012) The essential elements of digital literacies: Doug Belshaw at TEDxWarwick [online],
available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yQPoTcZ78 [accessed 08 March 2016].
Image used with the author’s permission

15. Licht, M. 2016. Brexit. [Online] Accessed 27 June 2016. Available from www.flickr.com.
CC BY

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17. For more information
Contact the TEL Team
TEL@Sheffield.ac.uk
http://tel.group.shef.ac.uk/
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cics/learningandteaching