Group items tagged

"What is digital literacy and how is it different from information literacy? 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."

"This project addresses the long-standing gap between the rhetoric and the realities of TEL. For example, it examines the disparities between the educational potential of technology in comparison to what takes place in practice. This is a tension that recurs throughout much of the research and practitioner literature on technology use within higher education. On one hand, there is evidence for the potential of digital technology to support and sustain meaningful and effective forms of learning. Networked digital technologies have undoubtedly transformed the generation and communication of knowledge and, it follows, that this has influenced the ways in which learning takes place. The potential to 'support', 'enable', or even 'enhance' learning has therefore been associated with every significant development in digital technology over the past twenty years or so."

From newly published (May 2014) JISC Digital Literacies infokit

From newly published (May 2014) JISC Digital Literacies infokit

A listing of pages tagged with 'digital literacy' in the Design Studio - everything from definition to case studies.

I like the 8 essential essential elements of digital literacies mainly because it is not really a definition, not focused on skills, recognises the importance of context and the need for digital literacies are co-constructed.

Interesting thoughts on 'genres of participation' from David White (University of Oxford) writing in the Guardian

Even the fabled personalization that digital learning affords is really a form of mass customization. There is no personal relationship. It is a market of knowledge where no one is known and care is limited to the provision of choices. Whether its crusaders are venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, academics, or students, the colonizer is a transactional view of education, centered on knowledge as a commodity, which displaces a relational view of education, centered on developing through relationships. This in turn becomes, like all precious resources of colonial territories, no longer a common good but a leisurely privilege.

The 5 Resources framework from the University of Greenwich

HEFCE report: Collaborate to compete - Seizing the opportunity of online learning for UK HE  See section 3

USING COP for Professional development + heutagogy