Helen Blanchett ARLG Digital Literacy Event - Key issues in developing digital literacy
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Develop a Definition & Framework
To clarify understanding & identify priorities
EXAMPLES
• Jisc• 7 elements: media literacy, communications &
collaboration, career & identity management, ICT literacy, learning skills, digital scholarship, information literacy
• Greenwich 5 resources• Decoding, meaning-making, analysing, persona, using
• Digilit Leicester• Strands: Creating and Sharing, Assessment and Feedback,
Communication, Collaboration and Participation, E-Safety and Online Identity, Technology supported Professional Development
• Levels: Entry, Core, Developer, Pioneer
Online Resources for Staff
Flexible delivery of CPD
EXAMPLES
• Open University Being digitalwww.open.ac.uk/libraryservices/beingdigital/
• Activities can be explored within four themes –Finding information, Using information, Creating information, and Workplace skills – which map loosely to the OU’s Digital and Information Literacy Framework.
Self-evaluations
Encourage self-reflection & provide guidance on development
EXAMPLES
• Jisc list of self-evaluations including• Exeter CASCADE Learner
quiz http://bit.ly/learnerquiz
• Researcher quiz http://bit.ly/researcherquiz
• Digilit Leicester survey• http://www.digilitleic.com/
Co-mentoring
Students and staff supporting each other
EXAMPLES
• Learning ZoneThe Learning Zone at the University of the Arts, London is a peer support and co-mentoring initiative which employs students alongside professional staff and has been considered among the most forward-thinking aspects of institutional provision.
Communities of practice
Share expertise, provide peer support, encourage culture change
EXAMPLES
• DIAL project - Enable sixteen self-identifying communities within UAL to articulate their digital literacies goals and aspirations, assess their existing skills and confidence levels, and develop processes to support their development, including the generation of resources (for example such as digital video recordings of staff using applications which are new to them, and articulating in a voice-over their concerns and their developing understanding).
• Social networking on campus - Reading
• Lunchtime sessions - Teeside
Institutional Audit
Co-ordinate and benchmark activities across an institution
EXAMPLES
• Jisc DDL Institutional Audit tool
• Ucisa Survey of Digital Capabilitieshttp://www.ucisa.ac.uk/digcap
Student Digital Champions
Harnessing student experience
EXAMPLES
• LSE Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsesadl/
• Jisc Change Agents Networkhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/change-agents-network
• Newcastle University Technology Ambassadors
Embedding within Professional Review process
Ensuring digital literacy is formally recognised in review processes
• University of Plymouth - Working with HR embedding Digital literacy into the PDR process. The university was moving from an appraisal to a Professional Development Review process, so the project worked with Heads of School and HR to identify digital skills across the board.
• Newcastle University – inclusion of a digital literacy objective within PDR
Embedding within the curriculum
Ensuring co-ordinated, relevant, timely support for students
EXAMPLES
• Leeds Met – mapping DL to graduate attributes & making an institution wide
priority
Developing digital cultures & attitudes
Moving beyond skills
EXAMPLES
• Celebrating innovations, open discussion & exploration, social networking
• NU Digital, #seeitshowittryit, Teeside DL development day, Digitally Ready project
Online Resources for Students
Flexible resources to support development
EXAMPLES
• Surrey Skills Portalhttp://libweb.surrey.ac.uk/library/skills/learningskills.html
• University of Southampton Digital Literacies Toolkithttps://www.elanguages.ac.uk/digital_literacies.php
Accreditation
For motivation & recognitions of skills
EXAMPLES
• Use of accreditation in FE through the units at the Open College Network for both staff and students – PADDLE project
• Open Badges – eg Mozilla Web Literacy
Mapping to graduate attributes
Mapping digital literacy to key priorities
EXAMPLES
• Leeds Beckett University - Erin NephinStarted 2011 - embedding for undergraduate students as a graduate attribute. Complete course review & DL is now one of the 3 graduate attributes must be embedded in all courses (others are global outlook, being enterprising)
Digital Literacy Events
Create a buzz & share good practice
EXAMPLES
• NU Digital – large exhibition event with surgeries, bitesize demos, cutting edge research & day-to-day skills
• #seeitshowittryit – internal library staff development event at Newcastle Uni
• Teeside Digital Literacy Development day
Fund mini-projects
Provide motivation & create examples of good practice
EXAMPLES
• Digitally Ready projecthttp://blogs.reading.ac.uk/digitallyready/
Staff Digital Champions
Provide local support & expertise
EXAMPLES
• University of Teeside
• E-Guides in FE sector
Working with Careers
Working in collaboration with other teams on employability
EXAMPLES
• Leeds Metropolitan University, Sarah Hotchkin & Stevie Farrell – library and careers working together on a session on employability / online identity etc