Digital Literacy

This blog post has a useful taxonomy of literacy.

Definitions.

A Qedoc learning module available for download

is a 3 hour self paced class combined with a performance assessment of your information fluency skills

Digital literacy includes a large variety of skills, which users need in order to function effectively in digital environments.

Authority. Authenticity. Ownership. Perspective. These four pillars make up the critical facets of the information we consume -- and understanding them makes us and our students wiser users of information. However, on the web, people often make assumptions about the authority and authenticity of information, and it can be challenging to understand ownership and perspective. The Glean Who-Is Tool help you and your students learn to investigate web-based content sources. By using technical information about websites ("whois"), along with historical and factual information, the tool encourages us to dig more deeply, to understand more thoroughly, and to critique more closely.

Three tools to support information literacy skills including boolify, comparison search and who-is

This is a chapter I have read for my master module. I have highlighed some interesting stuff around making elearning accessible.

Enjoyed this 40min presentation by Doug Belshaw on Dig Lit Do we even know what literacy is? Same word can have different meanings He suggests 8 elements for discussion: Can you guess what they are from these chemical-like symbols? First one done to give you a start! Cu-culture Cg Cn Co Cf Cr Ct Ci

We are entering a time of history where we will need more than intelligence, we will need the increased application of diverse intellect. We will need a workforce and citizenry filled with local, state and national leaders who see the concept of dialoging about new ideas as an important use of time.

This wiki contains outputs from the JISC funded study into Learning Literacies for the Digital Age (LLiDA). It was used during the project to share and develop ideas and work.

This Digital Literacy Toolkit began with the premise that multimedia authoring, which is happening with the extensive use of PowerPoint in classrooms, must be taught as a skill, just as traditional text-based writing is taught. While teachers and students have become familiar with the technical skills required to use images in multimedia productions, they lack a critical language to determine whether an image or a sound is used appropriately. Images, sounds and animations - like words - are building blocks whose meanings can be changed to suit the communicative purpose of the author. Just as the same words and phrases can be arranged or manipulated to express different meanings depending on the author's intent, so can sounds and images. The advent of multimedia authoring and an almost unlimited variety of images available via the Internet in the classroom, makes understanding this concept, that an image's meaning changes depending on the purpose for which it is used, a new requirement of 21st Century communication.

Literacy today depends on understanding the multiple media that make up our high-tech reality and developing the skills to use them effectively. A 2006 article from Educause Quarterly Magazine