Digital Literacy

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The JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme (2011-2013) is running a series of open webinars to share the work of the programme and wider relevant initiatives.     Future webinars The Google calendar lists all upcoming events with details of how to register.  This also includes webinars around the JISC Assessment and Feedback programme.

Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"

Try guessing how many apps have permissions to access your private information... Now click the icons and get ready for a surprise!

"The Faculty Learning Communities discussed this idea in their creative think tank sessions with the aim of articulating a digital literacy definition for each Faculty or School. These digital literacy definitions have been shared with the wider community on this blog as one of the project outputs.   These statements are also joined by a list of Faculty digital literacy attributes for learners. The stakeholders in the Faculty Learning Communities devised and then refined a set of digital literacy competencies for learners based on the JISC Learning Literacies Development Framework. The digital literacy attributes for each Faculty and School are made available below." Each of the competencies is avaialable as a PDF poster.

Student's reflections on a digital literacy assignment at Full Sail University shared on YouTube. See also http://youtu.be/7OcbFtT1xuU

 "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. 

Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies-from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms-are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities and social trajectories of individuals and groups

The Digitally Ready team recently invited staff and students to a workshop to explore and reflect on their own digital literacies. We asked people to feedback from their groups and their own personal reflections about access to facilities, their digital skills or lack of them, what they do and don't do in practice. Emerging trends suggest that although basic needs are robustly fulfilled - hardware, software and a good network - the overriding message is that most people feel they do not have adequate time to develop and discover how new technologies can be useful and relevant to them. Some people seem unaware of what is currently available and where they can go for help. It was suggested that colleagues who share best practice provide a powerful trigger for others to invest time in personal development. We finally asked people to complete 'To become more digitally ready, I will…….'

The e-Learning Programme has recently produced a series of radio shows on how digital technologies are supporting institutional practices. These shows offer an informative and engaging discussion with leading experts around how technology is supporting colleges and universities in addressing the challenges they currently face.

February 1 2012 Digital Learning Day is a nationwide celebration of innovative teaching and learning through digital media and technology that engages students and provides them with a rich, personalized educational experience.

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