Slides to webinar on Digital literacies in the open course Open Networked learning #ONL162 https://opennetworkedlearning.wordpress.com/topics-and-activities/overview-and-shedule-onl-162/

1. Sara Mörtsell
Education Manager,
Wikimedia Sverige
@SaraMrtsell
#ONL162
Open Networked Learning

2. Digital literacies are the capabilities which support
living, learning and working in a digital society, such as
dealing with the ubiquitous and interactive quality of
digitally mediated information.
Ubiquity Interactivity

3. Part 1 - Filter bubble and Information literacies
Part 2 - Wikipedia and student engagement
Part 3 - Creative Commons and responsibilities online
Summary - Impact for teaching and learning

4. Eli Pariser 2011.
By Kris Krug CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia
Commons
Google and Facebook are omnipresent.
Information is personalized by algorithmic
sorting, possible from the interactivity of the
services.
Convenience and confirmation bias instead of
a balanced information diet.

5. Eli Pariser 2011.
By Kris Krug CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia
Commons
Skills to assess and critically evaluate
traditional and non-traditional resources.
Awareness of the conditions for how
information is distributed in digital services.
● Beware online “Filter Bubbles” (2011)
● Escape your Search Engine’s Filter bubble - an
illustrated guide by DuckDuckGo

6. Part 1 - Filter bubble and Information literacies
Part 2 - Wikipedia and student engagement.
Part 3 - Creative Commons and responsibilities online
Summary - Impact for teaching and learning

7. “It would appear that instead of teaching critical
evaluation skills and helping learners to situate
non-traditional resources within larger
information-seeking frameworks, tutors commonly
advise that platforms such as Wikipedia should be
totally avoided, particularly true within the United
States (US).”[1]
● Visitors and Residents: Credibility
● David White: The Learning Black Market
1
David White 2011.

8. The Wikipedia Education Program
● Encourages a pedagogy about critiquing
what’s wrong about information and
● act on the critique to redesign information and
knowledge in open (public) digital spaces.
● Wikipedia assignments give students the skills
to question unreliable information, rather than
passively accepting it (information literacies).

9. ● Students can leverage the interactivity afforded by Wikipedia to
develop skills and literacies to support learning.
● Students engage in public space and can reach thousands of
readers and have real world impact.
Even “free/open” spaces online are governed by norms and strict
guidelines.

10. Part 1 - Filter bubble and Information literacies
Part 2 - Wikipedia and student engagement.
Part 3 - Creative Commons and responsibilities online
Summary - Impact for teaching and learning

11. This is default
- Some rights reserved, and some rights given to others.CC
Understanding licenses as rights and responsibilities when
engaging online.
Another possibility to leverage the affordances of digital
technologies in allowing others to interact with your material.
C - All rights reserved

12. Free permission is given to engage in the 5R
activities.
[2]
CC BY - Some rights reserved,
and (five) rights given to others.
Reuse et cie 5R By Fréderic Duriez (modified) CC
BY-3.0, via Formation et E-learning
2
Open Content definition opencontent.org

13. Creative Commons Free Photos
for Bloggers the Ultimate Guide by
Foter.com licensed under CC
BY-SA 3.0 (modified)

14. Part 1 - Filter bubble and Information literacies
Part 2 - Wikipedia and student engagement.
Part 3 - Creative Commons and responsibilities online
Summary - Impact for teaching and learning

15. Digital literacies are contextual
Skills do not transfer automatically.[3]
Visitor mode
tool approach
Personal
context
Institutional
context
3
White, D., & Le Cornu, A. (2011).
Visitors and Residents: A new
typology for online engagement.
First Monday, 16(9).
Resident mode
spaces approach

16. Resident mode
personal
institutional
Wikip
edia
MOOC
Visitor mode
Which activities can go in this
quandrant?

17. Facebook
Resident
mode
personal
institutional
#ONL162
Wikip
edia
Wikipedia
Education
Program
MOOC
Visitor
mode

18. Have a look at the complete JISC guide: Evaluating digital
services: a visitors and residents approach.
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