Slides used in Webinar for Open Networked Learning https://opennetworkedlearning.wordpress.com/overview-and-schedule-onl152/

1. D I G I T A L
L I T E R A C Y
Sara Mörtsell
Education Manager,
Wikimedia Sverige
@SaraMrtsell
#ONL152
Open Networked Learning

2. Something that works for me...
Digital literacies - The engagement with digitally mediated
information [1]
, [reading, writing and participating] on the web
[a socio-technical space], and how to understand oneself in
relation to that space.
1
Säljö, R. (2012) Literacy, Digital Literacy and Epistemic Practices: The Co-Evolution of
Hybrid Minds and External Memory Systems

3. Three parts to the story
Part 1 - Reading as online engagement.
Part 2 - Sharing as online engagment.
Part 3 - Modes of participating online.

4. Reading
Eli Pariser 2011.
By Kris Krug CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia
Commons
Mass media - information from the few
to the many.
Who are the editors and curators of
digital information?
What’s reading like in the filter bubble?
Personalisation and algorithms...

5. Reading and gate-keeping to information
Research from Facebook:
“It’s not that we control NewsFeed,
you control NewsFeed by telling us
what you’re interested in.” [2]
2
Jurgenson, N (2015) Facebook: Fair and balanced

6. Reading digitally mediated information
Critical evaluation
of content
of platforms
of technologies

7. Sharing
Understanding licenses as rights
and responsabilities when
sharing.
CC BY - Some rights reserved,
and some (five) rights given to
others.
Reuse et cie 5R By Fréderic Duriez (modified) CC BY-
3.0, via Formation et E-learning

8. Sharing knowledge
Imagine a world where every single
human can freely share in the sum of
all knowledge.[3]
● On of the most popular websites with
500 million unique vsitors monthly.
● Content is edited and monitored by
the users, guided by strict
community guidelines.
3
Wikipedia mission statement.

9. Sharing knowledge in education
The Wikipedia Education Program
● a pedagogy about critiquing
what’s wrong about information
and
● act on the critique to redesign
information and knowledge in
open (public) digital spaces.

10. Sharing knowledge in education
Real world impact of student editors in numbers
- 20 000 views in one day.[4]
4
View source.

11. Modes of participaiting online
Some people visit the web. Other people live
there.[5]
5
David White
visitor resident

12. Modes of participaiting online
Digital literacies are contextual
Skills do not transfer
automaticly [6]
visitor resident
personal
institutional
6
White, D., & Le Cornu, A. (2011).
Visitors and Residents: A new
typology for online engagement.
First Monday, 16(9).

13. Modes of participaiting online
visitor resident
personal
institutional
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14. The conversation continues
Find me on Twitter: @SaraMrtsell
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… and other places.
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