Post on 21-Jan-2018
“I believe that people need to hear
a range of opinions”
“When I learn about something … I
will write about it in a way to inform
and educate people who haven’t
had a chance to study what I am
studying”
Politics student Leonie Mills talking about her blog: Thoughts of a
Lioness: https://thoughtsofalionessblog.wordpress.com/
Developing the digital curriculum
Information and Digital Literacy (IDL) at the University of Sheffield
Vicky Grant and Jenny Pacheco
Library Learning Services Unit
JISC. (2017, June 20). Higher education students not prepared for digital workplace. [News item]. Retrieved from:
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/higher-education-students-not-prepared-for-digital-workplace-20-jun-2017
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New Media Consortium. (2017). NMC horizon report 2017 (higher education ed.). Retrieved June 8 2017 from:
http://academedia.org/2017_NMC_horizon.pdf
The latest NMC Horizon Report
(2017)
• suggests that we have reason to be hopeful
• claims that improving the digital literacy of
students should be a solvable issue for HE
• clearly states the importance of university libraries
in upskilling students in their digital literacy
What is Information and Digital
Literacy?
“Information and digital literacy (IDL) blends information literacies, with
digital capabilities transcending technological skills and tools to
embrace an understanding of what it means to learn, live and work in
a fluid digital world. IDL enables learners to discover and absorb
information in a critically engaged manner, innovate in active pursuits
of creative scholarship and demonstrate integrity by acknowledging
the work of others.”
What is Digital Literacy? A perspective from
JISC
JISC. (2015). Developing students’ digital literacy. Retrieved June 8 2017 from: https://jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-students-
digital-literacy.
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What is Digital Literacy? A perspective from
Doug Belshaw
Belshaw, D. (2012) The essential elements of digital literacies: Doug Belshaw at TEDxWarwick [Video]. Retrieved 8 June 2017 from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yQPoTcZ78 . Image used with the author’s permission
What is Information and Digital Literacy? A
perspective from the Open University Library
Open University Library. (2012). Digital and information literacy framework. Retrieved June 8 2017 from:
http://www.open.ac.uk/libraryservices/subsites/dilframework/
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Discovering
Discovering is the literacy
which enables learners to
develop search strategies
and utilise a broad range of
generic and discipline
specific resource discovery
tools.
Understanding
Understanding is the literacy
which enables learners to
find meaning and apply
context
Questioning
Questioning is the literacy
which enables learners to
analyse, evaluate, interpret
and think critically about
information.
Referencing
Referencing is the literacy which
enables learners to
acknowledge the work of others
and build their own analysis
building on their own analysis of
existing knowledge
Communicating
Communicating is the literacy
which enables learners to
succinctly summarise and share
their work and ideas
Hallett, R. (2016). Designing Digital Literacy in the Curriculum: Westminster Briefing. [Prezi}. Retrieved
July 3 2017 from: https://prezi.com/mm_ciiggjsa9/designing-digital-literacy-in-the-curriculum/
Included with the author’s permission
Some further thoughts on digital literacy from Rafe
Hallett
Digital literacy involves
Bricolage (tinkering)
Hyper-visualisation (think about a range
of media – not just text)
Collectively produced knowledge
THE TASK FOR TODAY
Think of a programme you are
familiar with.
Map the programme to the six
literacies, indicating what you are you
already doing well and what you
could do next to fill the gaps.
Think about opportunities for student
collaboration and the inclusion of a
range of media in the programme, eg
images, apps, blogs, Google docs