LDSC08 Digital Literacy
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Description
How are emerging technologies and new modes of sharing and publishing information changing our definition of digital literacy?
Helping students become responsible yet inventive content creators, evaluative researchers and knowledgeable technology users presents innumerable challenges in and out of the classroom. We'll discuss the current state of digital literacy, strategies for helping students achieve digital fluency, and forecast what's to come in the future.
Resources
Lippincott, Joan K. Student Content Creators: Convergence of Literacies. EDUCAUSE Review, November/December 2007.
ISTE Educational Technology Standards for Students
These recent K-12 standards blend information and technology literacy, providing a thought-provoking model for integrating emerging technology and content creation competencies within digital literacy.
Beyond Technical Competence: Literacy in Information and Communication Technology
[1] Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
Discussion Notes
Talked about Dana's blog post on Wikipedia. How do we help students understand good sources vs. bad sources? Knowing the type of source to cite depends upon knowing your audience Chris said that he learned how to do searching through the Libraries---Boolean searching. Whoo hoo! Dawn noted that it is tough to get kids to focus on Boolean searching
How do we engage students and teach them how to search more effectively? Tags = subject indexes
Why aren't these things being taught in freshman seminar classes? Technology has jumped ahead of the people. Parents, teachers may not have caught up to the technology.
Blogs, Facebook, MySpace is replacing standard sources---Wikipedia. Reading a blog is more than reading a blog post--it's the comments, the community.
Students are coming in without much of a concept of where information comes from. Do we need to jump them off? Is literacy about remixing and community?
Ought we be equpping students to filter multiple channels of information? Students don't have the mentors who also understand the technologies to help the discern the wheat from the chaff.
Where do you draw the line on students' interactions in a community space? People make assumptions based on format.
How has content creation changed literacies?
Think about where our students are coming from in K-121 (NCLB), rural environments, low technology literacy;
John noted that students want absolute answers--no greyness. He has seen this change happening in the past few years. Dana noted that all students are on a journey developing their literacies.
Loanne said that we are here to help them learn literacies. CeCe noted that it must be fun and help students learn at the same time. Literacy is changing--to a more participatory culture. What of the old stuff can we let go of, what is the new stuff that students should and can learn?
Outcomes...We need to continue this discussion! :)
Time and Location
Lunch on August 12, TBD
See Ellysa Cahoy
Discussion Participants
If you would like to participate in this discussion, please add your name to the list below:
- Ellysa Cahoy
- Jean Marie Donnelly
- John Patishnock
- Dana Carlisle Kletchka
- Chris Millet
- Hannah Inzko
- Stevie Rocco
