Digital Literacy Resources for Waikato University Staff

Very useful podcast looking at digital literacy for staff.

Doug Belshaw on DigLit for staff & students.

One for the privacy lessons even though the app has been pulled. It's not the app itself, it's the lack of realisation about what data we are sharing and what can be done with it.  It's like Miss Marples in a digital age!

Josie Fraser talks about her work with Leicester schools to develop digital literacy practices.

Understand the importance of your digital identity - listing passwords you really shouldn't use!

The 4-D Model is based on Appreciative Inquiry (AI) which is a larger framework for human or organizational change. Like AI itself, it is based on a shift in paradigms on human interaction. The core can be captured in the idea that we create the world as we describe it.

It sounds important - haven't read it yet, but it isn't new (2010) " Digital literacy means learning how to work the information and communication technologies in a networked environment, as well as understanding the social, cultural and ethical issues that go along with the use of these technologies. "Full participation in contemporary culture requires not just consuming messages, but also creating and sharing them," writes Hobbs. "To fulfill the promise of digital citizenship, Americans must acquire multimedia communication skills and know how to use these skills to engage in the civic life of their communities.""

More back story stuff for digital literacy. Young Jewish girl accused of anti-Semitism when in fact following Jewish tradition. Framing of stories (in this case by right wing bloggers but could be by others) can affect our perception of online (and any) information. 

Gina Minks tries to define adult Digital Literacy

Appreciative Inquiry (often known as AI) was developed by David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva in the 1980s. The approach is based on the premise that 'organisations change in the direction in which they inquire.' So an organisation which inquires into problems will keep finding problems but an organisation which attempts to appreciate what is best in itself will discover more and more that is good. It can then to use these discoveries to build a new future where the best becomes more common.

Using Appreciative Inquiry to approach change in organisations.

Focus is on young people's evaluation of digital sources.

abstract: Trinity University has established effective strategies for engaging faculty, administrators, and staff in information literacy instruction and assessment. Succeeding in an area in which many libraries struggle, the Coates Library at Trinity University offers a model for libraries seeking to actively engage their campuses through 1) establishing a common definition of information literacy; 2) developing workshops and grants; and 3) engaging in campus-wide information literacy assessment using rubrics. Furthermore, a survey of Trinity faculty, administrators, and staff reveals facilitators and impediments to campus acceptance of collaborative information literacy activities that can inform the evaluation efforts of librarians at other institution

Modern graduate attributes and why they shouldn't be just about making good workers.

Tabetha Newman's site with links to her DigLit work

Glossary of terms explaining some of the terminology used in the self-assessment checklists also uploaded. Becta material made available under the Open Government Licence. (Seems to be locked down)

"If you are a large for-profit education company-say, an LMS vendor or a textbook company-give $5,000 to the DS106 Kickstarter project. At that level of contribution, in addition to all the benefits of the lower levels, you'll get a mention as doing a really swell thing on the fabulous e-Literate weblog."  Instructure did this thing!

Josie Fraser arguing that we shouldn't conflate computer science with digital literacy (in the light of recent UK govt. statements and initiatives like Code Academy).

Article on sock-puppetry by an author. Relates to questions of digital identity and trust online.

Slideshare suggesting an institutional PLE (personal learning environment) and linking that to digital literacy