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#etmoocMonday 18th February 2013
T3S1Digital Literacies with Dr. Doug Belshaw
Where in the world are you?
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/etmoocT3S1
How would YOU define digital literacy?
Hi! I’m Doug Belshaw, Badges & Skills Lead for the Mozilla Foundation.
You can find me online here:•@dajbelshaw•doug@mozillafoundation.org•http://dougbelshaw.com
Doctoral thesis on digital literacies online at:http://neverendingthesis.com
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Researcher/Analyst in UK HE (2010-2012)
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Mozilla!a global non-profit
(2012 - Present)
Open Badges
Web Literacy standard
http://mzl.la/weblitstd
1. Introduction2. Digital Literacies?3. Essential Elements4. Co-constructing definitions5. Web Literacy standard
199730+ DEFINITIONS
Never mind DIGITAL do we even know what LITERACY is?
“Literacy is a characteristic acquired by individuals in varying degrees from just above none to an indeterminate upper level. Some individuals are more or less literate than others but it is really not possible to speak of illiterate and literate persons as two distinct categories.”
(UNESCO, 1957)
“[Literacy as] independent of and impartial towards trends and struggles in everyday life.”
(Street, 1984)
“[Literacy as] an active relationship or a way of orienting to
the social and cultural world.”
(Lankshear, 1999)
AUTONOMOUS IDEOLOGICAL
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Need to bedeveloped
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SUBJECTIVEVIEWS OF LITERACY DEVELOPMENT
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“Updating of understanding and competence will be necessary as individual circumstances change, and as changes in the digital information environment bring the need for new fresh understanding and new competencies; as Martin (2006a) puts it, digital literacy is ‘a condition, not a threshold’.”
(Bawden, 2008)
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Digital LiteracyFramework
Digital Literacy
Digital Literacies
“Digital literacies are plural, subjective, and highly context-dependent” says @dajbelshaw #etmooc
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From the research...
CoCommunicative
CuCultural
CgCognitive
CnConstructive
CiCivic
CrCreative
CfConfident
CtCritical
The 8 Essential Elementsof Digital Literacies
Hannon (2000)
The 8 Essential Elements
“The nature of literacy in a culture is repeatedly redefined as the result of technological changes.”
CuCultural
The 8 Essential Elements“Functional internet literacy is not the ability to use a set of technical tools; rather, it is the ability to use a set of cognitive tools.”
Johnson (2008)
CgCognitive
The 8 Essential Elements“[Digital literacy is] the awareness, attitude and ability of individuals to appropriately use digital tools...in order to enable constructive social action.”
DigEuLit project (2006)
CnConstructive
The 8 Essential Elements“Digital literacy must therefore involve a systematic awareness of how digital media are constructed and of the unique 'rhetorics' of interactive communication.”
Buckingham (2007)
CoCommunicative
OECD (2001)
The 8 Essential Elements
CfConfident
“Modern society is increasingly looking to [people] who can confidently solve problems and manage their own learning throughout their lives, the very qualities which ICT supremely is able to promote.”
Conlon & Simpson (2003)
The 8 Essential Elements
“The creative adoption of new technology requires teachers who are willing to take risks... a prescriptive curriculum, routine practices... and a tight target-setting regime, is unlikely to be helpful.”
CrCreative
The 8 Essential Elements
“Once we see that online texts are not exactly written or spoken, we begin to understand that cyberliteracy requires a special form of critical thinking. Communication in the online world is not quite like anything else.”
Gurak (2001)
CtCritical
The 8 Essential Elements
“The ability to understand and make use of ICT - digital literacy - is proving essential to employment success, civic participation, accessing entertainment, and education.”
Mehlman (2007)
CiCivic
CoCommunicative
CuCultural
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How can we have a STANDARD?!
Digital Literaciesmultiple referents
Web Literacysingle referent
It will be co-constructed...
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...and reconfigurable
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...and (of course!) use BADGES
Read more about our thinking behind a new, open learning standard for Web Literacy:
http://bit.ly/weblitoverview
Come to the next online gathering! Details:
http://mzl.la/weblitstd
Thanks!dougbelshaw.com
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