Elka, member of the Library SALT team, 2016-17.

“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

“equipped with appropriate information and digital literacy skills”

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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The Sheffield framework (in

development):Six literacies

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

Creating

Creating is the literacy which

enables learners to blend ideas

and capture new knowledge.

Communicating

Communicating is the literacy

which enables learners to

succinctly summarise and share

their work and ideas

https://librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk/

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