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digital visitors and digital residents

Digital Storytelling with the iPad

Steve Wheeler post on facets of digital literacy. Includes some insightful comments.

Comment on Katz article on academic scholarship in the digital age.

"Students like Ms. Cook are among the first generation of undergraduates at dozens of colleges to take humanities courses - even Shakespeare - that are deeply influenced by a new array of powerful digital tools and vast online archives."

Take one tweet and deconstruct it to expose facets of digital literacy.  Coincidental that this is about #ds106radio!

Post from Uni Glamorgan on Dig Lit in HE.

Digital literacy or digital judgement? What is our belief system of the Internet?

Nuancing Prensky and introducing the 'digital stranger'. Useful although not sure how much of a cultural and economic argument is being layered on.

Good post on the changing role of identity in a digital and social age.

Framing Digital Literacy as conversation. Not stunning but worth adding to the lists.

Slides with an overview of the Jisc Digital Literacies programme.

Don Tapscott on why universities need to enter the digital age.

"Digital literacy is not word processing or watching movies on an iPhone, but instead using technology to create, code and collaborate. In today's world, that necessarily includes the Web. Building a generation of young 'webmakers' is key to job creation, international competitiveness and engagement in civil society. In this webinar, Mozilla will talk about their work in this area to define key Web literacy skills, create pathways for innovative learning experiences around them and build a network of instructors and facilitators with a shared mission."

"...exploring how universities and colleges can help teaching staff, researchers, support and administrative staff to develop their digital literacies"

collection of digital literacy links using the 21st. C. literacies model to organise them into categories e.g. visual literacy, critical literacy, tool literacy etc. 

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!

"Within a week of the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, a library surfaced in the midst of the protest. Staffed by volunteers and comprised entirely of donated materials, the People's Library offers books and media to the public, provides basic reference assistance and has built an online catalog of their holdings. In this paper, I analyze the People's Library in terms of larger discussions of libraries, technology and activism. Drawing on personal experiences volunteering at the Library as well as text from the Library's blog, I argue that the People's Library offers two counter arguments to conventional claims about the public library: first, that libraries are being existentially threatened by the emergence of digital technologies and second, that a library's institutional ethics are located solely or predominantly in the content of its collection. Using the People's Library as a kind of conceptual case study, I explore the connections between public libraries, digital technologies and activist ideologies."