Digital Literacy Resources for Waikato University Staff

How the Internet can change language - and upset people!

Digital literacies are about communicating and critical reflection.

Sarah Knight (JISC) on the importance of digital literacy for learning and employability.

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).

Guardians Digital Literacy page - also http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/series/digital-literacy-campaign

A net safety resource, designed for kids but adaptable for adults.

Data freedom - Own & control your data.

Short news article on literacy in the class. Comments are illuminating.

Neoteny, one of my favorite words, means the retention of childlike attributes in adulthood: idealism, experimentation and wonder. In this new world, not only must we behave more like children, we also must teach the next generation to retain those attributes that will allow them to be world-changing, innovative adults who will help us reinvent the future.

Paper by Lynn Jeffrey & Bronwyn Hegarty on Digital Literacy

Digital literacy resource. A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.

"I've just been in an interesting panel discussion at the JISC Online Conference on the subject of 'digital literacy'. The recording of the Elluminate session is available. The session reinforced to me just how diverse people's views on digital literacies are. Most new to the field make the assumption that digital literacy is singular and consists of basic skills in the digital realm. In effect, digital competency. Those more experienced in the field, such as Helen Beetham, talk of the importance of this baseline - the 'ABC' of digital literacy as she called it, but higher-level skills as well."

An updated presentation by Doug Belshaw on diglit

JISC DigLit tools including link to the LLiDA audit tool.

CASCADE is designed to focus on the digital literacy of researchers - building on the University's strengths in research-led teaching. It also incorporates the concept of 'students as change agents', for which we  have national acclaim for our work involving undergraduate students in the design and delivery of the curriculum, and we intend to build on our experience of engaging Postgraduate Research students to cascade skills to undergraduates. How it will workA purpose-designed Exeter Digital Literacy Framework will underpin the project, and help us in refining our approaches, specifically with regard to digital literacy skills. A number of research-rich online and face to face activities will be developed and piloted in our five Colleges.

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

Not about digital literacy about literacy some transferables here?