Digital Literacy

"Our ability to communicate - Unlike our parents, who recall sitting down at a desk to deliberately draft a letter with paper, pen, envelope and stamp, today's youth have radically expanded options in how we communicate our observations, reflections and emotions. Oral and written communication have merged into a constant flow of commentary that tends to incentivize wit, irony and novelty. Of greatest significance, online communication is often many-to-many rather than one-to-one, an adjustment that has proven difficult for older generations.

Two years ago, in Towards a comprehensive definition of digital skills, I depicted digital literacy according to five different categories, being those categories technological literacy, informational literacy, media literacy, digital presence and e-awareness. Explaining these concepts with a single example (that is, all the concepts using the very same example for all of them) is not always easy, so you end up using different examples with each category or concept. Today I just found that single example that can be used to explain all of them...

The Guardian is taking stock of the new battlegrounds for the internet. From states stifling dissent to the new cyberwar front line, we look at the challenges facing the dream of an open internet Day four: IP wars Intellectual property, from copyrights to patents, have been an internet battlefield from the start. We look at what Sopa, Pipa and Acta really mean, and explain how this battle is not over. Plus, Clay Shirky will be discussing the issues in a live Q&A

Lots of advice and guidance on managing your digital identity.

Learn how to identify, locate, evaluate, organise and effectively use information. This is an excellent set of information literacy materials, paid for by the Scottish Government.

Useful checklist for Learning Providers to use to see how digitally literate their learners are and also whether or not they are digitally excluded from any resources within their institution.

Summary presentation of a recent Cambridge research project aiming to development an Information Literacy curriculum for undergraduate students. There is also a comprehensive Wiki of resources. The sixth slide is interesting: placing digital literacy as part of the wider information literacy landscape.

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

BiblioBouts, an online social game that covertly teaches students how to do library research while they go about the business of completing a research-and-writing assignment.

The SLIDA report has recommendations for further and higher education on how to develop effective institution-wide strategies and practices which better support effective learners in a digital age. A number of case studies are included from both FE and HE institutions.

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.

Welcome to the Digital Literacy @ University of Worcester Blog This blog for Digital Literacy, bringing you interesting pieces of information encouraging all to join a community interested in discussing the impact technology is or might have on our lives whether we are students or staff. Exploring Open Education Resources - cost, quality, best practice frameworks.Running an annual survey for Digital Literacy (with a prize) to help us find out what you want, need and aspire to:Exploring social networking virtual worlds for administrative, teaching and communication affordances.Exploring online lunchtime seminars for staff.

 "Etextbooks and online learning communities are just a few of the ways colleges and universities are dabbling in digital. This graphic breaks it down."   Excellent Infographic looking at the electronic landscape in education including comparision of iPad and Kindle Fire, VLEs and reinventing the textbook. 

A film outlining the use of film technology in university teaching by Dr Jon Anderson, Cardiff University in the School of City and Regional Planning

Over the past 18 months I've been having a series of discussions with Bill Johnston (a colleague of mine here at Strathclyde) around notions information and digital literacy and of what it means to be a digital university.

Doug Belshaw -  JISC infoNet Guardian Professional, Tuesday 24 January 2012 16.41 GMT

Today the Guardian will launch a campaign to improve IT and computer science teaching in schools and universities - and we want input from as many teachers, lecturers, pupils, parents and developers as possible

Good article on what internet presence on Twitter means to some writers and showrunners.