50 Activities To Promote Digital Media Literacy In Students. Literacy is changing–not at its core necessarily, but certainly at its edges as it expands to include new kinds of “reading.” Digital media is quickly replacing traditional media forms as those most accessible to most 21st century learners. The impact of this change is extraordinarily broad, but for now we’ll narrow it down to changes in how learners respond to the media they consume. The most fundamental pattern of formal academia is to read something and then write about it. Sometimes this writing comes in the form of responding to questions, while other time it’s in the form of an essay.
And sometimes the reading is watching, playing with, or otherwise interacting with a digital media. So I thought it might make sense to compile a list of “things” learners can do as the result of “consuming” a digital media. Some of these tasks will look familiar, especially to English teachers. You also might notice that many of them apply to both traditional and digital media.
2011 e-learning tools. Yesterday, I finalised the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 list. In the last few days of voting there was a surge of contributions (both online and by email) that brought the number of contributions to 531. Many thanks to everyone who took the time to share their Top 10 Tools and help me compile this, the 5th annual survey of learning tools.
The final list and presentation is available in full on this page HERE, but below I embed the presentation that I have created that is also available on Slideshare. This year as for the last couple of years, the #1 tool is Twitter. But here are a few observations on this year’s list. The list is dominated once again by free, online social tools - and proprietary content development tools continue to decline.The top three tools – Twitter, YouTube and Google Docs – retain their positions from 2010.Other tools have moved up the list since 2010. I’ve also created a Best of Breed 2011 list, which categorizes the tools under a number of headings. Developing digital literacies. 'By digital literacy we mean those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society.
For example, the use of digital tools to undertake academic research, writing and critical thinking; digital professionalism; the use of specialist digital tools and data sets; communicating ideas effectively in a range of media; producing, sharing and critically evaluating information; collaborating in virtual networks; using digital technologies to support reflection and PDP; managing digital reputation and showcasing achievements.' Developing Digital Literacies was a two-year Jisc-funded programme (2011-2013) to promote the development of coherent, inclusive approaches to digital capability across institutions of further and higher education. This 'home' page provides access to the activities and outcomes of the programme.
Themes - key themes which emerged from the programme Resources - resources from the programme grouped by type and purpose/user group. Digital and Information Literacy. Emerging Practice in a Digital Age. Download the publication1 See supplementary resources, including video clips, podcasts and detailed versions of the case studies2 The environment of further and higher education is changing in response to economic pressures, government policies and changing behaviours influenced by greater ownership of new and increasingly more powerful technologies.
In turn, this is encouraging institutions to review key aspects of their provision and to reassess what is delivered, to whom and in what ways. The quality of the learning experience is still the prime consideration, but our understanding of what constitutes quality has grown to recognise the importance of aspects such as personalised learning and an increasing emphasis on learner satisfaction and preparing students for future employment. So what role does emerging practice in the use of technology to enhance learning play in responding to these key drivers for change and why do institutions need to nurture emerging practice? Grant 4/11 - Call for projects in developing digital literacies. JISC invites institutions to submit funding proposals for projects to support the development and implementation of institutional approaches to digital literacies across the entire workforce and including students.
Total funding of up to £1,000,000 is available for 10 to 12 two year projects funded at up to £100,000 each. The deadline for proposals is 12 noon UK time on Wednesday, 8 June 2011. It is envisaged that bidders will be notified of the outcome of the evaluation process in the week commencing 4 July 2011. The successful projects will be expected to start work mid July 2011. Briefing event A briefing event was held online via Elluminate at 10 am on the 12th May 2011. Recording of briefing session1 – please note there were technical difficulties at the start of this session so please start the recording approximately 10 minutes into the session Powerpoint presentation2 (pdf) Eligibility. Simplified Digital Literacy skills audit « Andrew Eynon’s Library Blog. Posted by andrewey on August 12, 2011 Having conducted our intial Digital Literacy Skills audit with a number of students – both peer e-guides and their fellow student cohorts - we have significantly revised the initial set of audit questions.
The main issues with the initial audit were: Too many questions – students found the initial 23 questions too long and repetitive (with questions seen as being to similar)Questions not linked closely enough to training/support materials – the new set of questions is clearly linked to support and training on offer making a much clearer diagnostic tool and providing a more manageable PDP for learnersDid not concentrate on core skills – web 2.0 skills were seen as cutting across other Digital Literacy skills and are no longer audited separatelyDid not differentiate between different skill levels – the initial audit included questions relating to skills at different levels, these were unclear and contributed to learner confusion eGuide Audit v2 criteria.
UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. University of Worcester - Information & Learning Services - Digital Literacy Services.