Digital Literacies as a Postgraduate Attribute?

Lesley Gourlay & Martin OliverInstitute of Education, University of Londondiglitpga.jiscinvolve.org

Students study in all sorts of spaces: you can’t assume your buildings determine their experience

Practices are already saturated with digital mediation, in terms of both devices and practices

Student engage with both paper-based and digitally-

mediated texts

Their practices are emergent and creative

What can you do?Get regular, in-depth qualitative data on student practices to inform development Generic, convergent taxonomic models of digital literacies are convenient, but over-generalise and date rapidly – don’t get too tied downProvide an infrastructure that helps divergent, messy, hybrid, emergent practices to take placeCreate interactive, dialogic guidance for areas of complexity Develop staff awareness of the type of practices generated by assignments, and how they should be developed