Today’s Access to HE students have a plethora of digital technologies to help support them with their study, but how can the tutor exploit these technologies to their full potential? This workshop provides a background to the theories around digital literacies and explores the types of behaviours and skills the Access to HE student needs to develop in order to become a professional digital scholar. Examples of interactive activities that you can use with your own Access to HE students will be provided as well as links to further resources to broaden understanding of the topic.
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Exploring digital literacies with the access to HE student
1. Exploring Digital Literacies with the Access to HE Student
(Access to HE Quality Development Network Event)
Scott Hibberson
30/04/2015
#digitalstudent
2. Aims of this session
• Examine theories relating to digital literacies and
how you might apply them in the classroom
• Explore resources developed by Jisc and partners
to support you in this area
• Identify a range of activities you can do with your
students
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3. How much do we know about our students?
The
“Digital”
Student?
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5. Early concepts of digital literacy (cont)
Gilster also recommended that learners communicate with the
author of a website by email.
If they don’t respond - don’t use the information!
• Did not foreseeWikipedia
• Did not foresee social media
• Only mention related to e-safety is inappropriate websites
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6. Digital Natives and Immigrants (prensky, 2001)
“…today’s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors.”
(Prensky, 2001)
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YEAR: 2000 1995 1990 1985
8. Activity
Are you a digital resident or visitor?
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RESIDENT VISITOR
I check my social media profile every day I check my social media profile when I get a
notification / need to
I regularly explore new websites and set up
digital profiles to access services
I explore some websites that are relevant to
me
I am happy to post my opinions on blogs /
social media
I rarely post my opinions on blogs / social
media
I bank online and regularly shop for goods
and services online
I don’t like to enter my personal details on
too many sites
I spend time online for a variety of different
reasons
I spend time online to perform a specific task
9. Understanding digital literacies
Beetham and Sharpe’s
framework (2010) describes
digital literacy as a development
process from access and
functional skills to higher level
capabilities and identity.
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Beetham and Sharpe ‘pyramid model’ of digital
literacy development model (2010)
10. Observations on the theories
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11. Current News
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Children should be taught "digital literacy" as a core
skill alongside maths and English, a report by a
House of Lords committee says.
A digital divide persists in the UK, with some six
million citizens never having used the internet and
9.5 million lacking adequate digital skills, partly
because they have been "poorly served at school",
the report warns.
"At the higher education level, there is an urgent
need for industry input, so that graduates are
learning job-relevant digital skills.“ – Lady Morgan.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-31501917 -
dated 17 Feb 2015.
12. Developing digital literacies programme
The developing digital literacies programme
(2011-2013) set out to explore institutional
approaches to digital literacy development
in universities and colleges:
» 12 institutional projects
» 10 professional associations
» a range of stakeholder groups
(students, academic staff, teachers,
researchers, librarians, administrators,
technical staff, support staff and senior
managers).
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13. Developing professional practice & identity
University of Exeter’s CASCADE project explores the role of digital technologies in
scholarly research in HE by exploring the digital capabilities of students via the
following iTest.
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Image available on Puntogeek [Accessed Feb 2015]
14. Starting the conversation…
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Download your own ‘Digital students are different’ posters direct from our blog at:
http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org/wp/outcomes/listen-to-students-posters/
15. Exemplar: Students as digital pioneers
Go to http://padlet.com/scotthibbo/whatonething
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50 exemplars of effective practice available at: http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org/wp/exemplars/
16. References
» Jisc (2015). Digital Student blog. [online]. Available at
http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org/wp/outcomes/enhancing-the-digital-experience-for-students-
cards/ [Accessed April 2015].
» Jisc (2015). Developing students’ digital literacy. [online]. Available at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-students-digital-literacy [Accessed April 2015].
» Prensky, Marc (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants [online]. Available at
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-
%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf [Accessed April 2015].
» Jisc (2014). Developing digital literacies infokit. [online]. Available at
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/digital-literacies/ [Accessed April 2015].
» White, David et al (2012). Digital Visitors and Residents – Progress report. [online]. Available at
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140702233839/http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/
projects/visitorsandresidentsinterim%20report.pdf [Accessed Feb 2015].
» White, David (2015). Visitors and Residents. [Online]. Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPOG3iThmRI [Accessed 28 Apr. 2015].
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