developing digitally literate staff and students: experiences from lse
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Developing digitally literate staff and students: experiences from LSE
Dr Jane SeckerCopyright and Digital Literacy Advisor
Learning Technology and Innovation, LSE
University of Sussex TEL Seminar 19th October 2016
The trouble with terminology…
Image: Networking from Flickr licensed under CC BY-NC-ND: : https://flic.kr/p/gXNViq
My dolly is bigger than yours….
Image: ‘Russian Dolls’ by Lachlan Fearnley, CC BY-SA 3.0Matryoshka metaphor conceived by Florence Dujardin (@afdujardin)
Information Literacy and other literaciesSecker and Coonan, 2013
Digital literacies or capabilities?
What is digital literacy?
…….the capabilities which fit someone for living, learning and working in a
digital society. Jisc (2015)
Literacy = studentsCapability = staff
Scholarship??
A critical approach
In these days of mass surveillance and the massive transfer of public goods into private hands, citizens need to know much more about how information works. They need to understand the moral, economic, and political context of knowledge. They need to know how to create their own, so that they make the world a better, more just place.
– Barbara Fister, “Practicing Freedom in the Digital Library: Reinventing Libraries” (2013)
What is information literacy?
Information literacy empowers people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goals. It is a basic human right in a digital world and promotes social inclusion in all nations.
UNESCO (2005) Alexandria Proclamation
A New Curriculum for Information Literacy (ANCIL)
Secker and Coonan (2013)
Is digital a red herring?
http://www.public-domain-image.com
Or is digital an opportunity?
Digital natives?
Photo by Flickingerbrad licensed under Creative Commons Photo by starmanseries licensed under Creative Commons
Visitors and residents
Images: Jisc InfoNet Visitors and Residents collection licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jiscinfonet/sets/72157641903755433/
Digital literacy at LSE: 2005-2016
Focus on academic staff development
Supporting them as teachers, but also as researchers and learners
Going beyond the VLE: using social media and apps
Now just part of what LTI offer each term
Understanding copyright is integral to digital literacy
Embedding ‘copyright literacy’
Acquiring and demonstrating the appropriate knowledge, skills and behaviours to enable the ethical creation and use of copyright material.Secker and Morrison, 2015
https://copyrightliteracy.org
Digital literacy is real
What works ?
What doesn’t?
Startled cat from Flickr licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND: https://flic.kr/p/5XpzSf
Innovation and transforming teaching
Working with students as partners
Aligning with strategy
Portrait of a loser from Flickr licensed under CC-BY: https://flic.kr/p/xbDGE
Making it sustainable
Sustainability by Kyle MacKenzie at https://flic.kr/p/6s1ssp
Collaboration ….
Marvel Avengers from Flickr licensed under CC-BY: https://flic.kr/p/dza1Nr Together from Flickr licensed under CC-BY-SA: https://flic.kr/p/C5JP
Digital literacy at Sussex?
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Thank you – any questions?
@jsecker @ukcopyrightlithttp://janesecker.wordpress.com
Further readingFister, Barbara. “Practicing freedom in the digital library.” Library Journal, 26 August 2013. Available at: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/08/future-of-libraries/practicing-freedom-in-the-digital-library-reinventing-libraries/
Hinrichsen, J and Coombs (2013). The five resources of critical digital literacy: a framework for curriculum integration. Research in Learning Technology. 21: 21334. http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v21.21334
Jisc (2015) Developing students’ digital literacy: quick guide. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-students-digital-literacy
LSE SADL Project: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsesadl
Secker, Jane (2012) Digital literacy support for researchers: the personalised approach. In: Priestner, Andy and Tilley, Elizabeth, (eds.) Personalising library services in higher education: the boutique approach. Ashgate, Farnham, UK, pp. 107 -125. Available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/45810/
Secker, J and Coonan, E. (2013) Rethinking Information Literacy: a practical framework for supporting learning. Facet Publishing: London.
Secker, J. and Morrison C. (2016) Copyright and E-learning a guide for practitioners. Facet Publishing: London
Tewell, E (2016) Putting critical information literacy into context: how and why librarians adopt critical practices in their teaching. In the Library with the Lead Pipe. http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2016/putting-critical-information-literacy-into-context-how-and-why-librarians-adopt-critical-practices-in-their-teaching/
UNESCO (2015) Media and Information Literacy. Available at: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/media-development/media-literacy/mil-as-composite-concept/
White, D and Le Cornu, (2011) Visitors and Residents: a new typology for online engagement. First Monday. Available at: http://firstmonday.org/article/view/3171/3049