1. Digital literacies for a modern
learning context
Gráinne Conole, Leicester University
18th April 2012
School of Education, Plymouth University
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/6197

2. Outline
• New technologies
• Definition
• Mapping to pedagogy
• Importance
• Implications

4. Discussion
• What are the
characteristics of new
technologies?
• What are their
implications for
learning, teaching and
research?

5. Technologies
• Transforming everything we
do
• New forms of communication
and collaboration
• Multiple rich representations
• Tools to find, create, manage,
share
• Networked, distributed, peer
reviewed, open
• Complex, dynamic and co-
evolving http://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanflynn/6638184545/

6. IPTS report
• Confident/critical use of
technologies for work,
leisure and communication
• Digital divide
• The network is key
• More participatory and
open practices
http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC67075_TN.pdf

8. Benefits
• Social
• Health
• Economic
• Civic
• Cultural
• Societal
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediaquell/4329902002/

9. Issues
• Personal safety/privacy
• Responsible, ethical, legal
• Understanding digital media
• Inequalities
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29233640@N07/3668208527/

10. Discussion: What’s your digital network?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/195492568/

11. My network

12. Discussion: fb love it or hate it?
Pros Cons

13. Creativity: definition
• Socio-cultural view of digital literacy - set
of social practices and meaning making of
digital tools (Lankshear and Knobel, 2008)
• Continuum from instrumental skills to
productive competence and efficiency

14. Play Collective intelligence
Performance Judgement
Simulation Transmedia
navigation
Appropriation Networking
Multitasking Negotiation
Distributed cognition Jenkins et al., 2006
http://www.flickr.com/photos/r8r/4109502436/

15. Transmedia navigation

16. Distributed cognition
Salamon, 1993

17. Play
http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/swift/

18. Networking

19. Collective intelligence
http://www.flickr.com/photos/immaginoteca/4323915058/

20. Performance

21. Discussion
• What other examples
are their of how these
literacies can be fostered
through new
technologies?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluffgar/4327454383/

22. Creativity
• Derived from Latin ‘creo’ to
create/make
• Creating something new
(physical artefact or concept)
that is novel and valuable
• Ability to transcend
traditional ideas, rules,
partners, relationships and
create meaningful new
ideas, forms, methods,
interpretations
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaxzine/2278300537/

23. Why is it important?
• Essential skill to
deal with today’s
complex, fast and
changing society
• Discourse and
collaboration are
mediated through
a range of social
and participatory
media
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jef_safi/370788912/

24. Aspects
• Process: mechanisms needed
for creative thinking
• Product: measuring creativity
in people
• Person: general intellectual
habits (openness, ideas of
ideation, autonomy,
expertise, exploratory and
behavioural)
• Place: best circumstances to
enable creativity to flourish

25. Stages
• Preparation: identifying
the problem
• Incubation:
internalisation of the
problem
• Intimation: getting a
feeling for a solution
• Illumination: creativity
burst forth
• Verification: idea is
consciously verified,
elaborated and applied
http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamcromar/5230835657/

26. iCreatNet
http://www.imv.au.dk/icreanet/

27. Creativity in design

28. Promise and reality
Social and
participatory media
offer new ways to
communicate and
collaborate Not fully exploited
Wealth of free Replicating bad pedagogy
resources and tools
Lack of time and skills

29. Learning Design
Shift frombelief-based, implicit
approaches todesign-
based,explicit approaches
Learning Design
A design-based approach to
creation and support of
courses
Encouragesreflective,scholarly
practices
Promotessharing and discussion
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OULDI/

30. Conceptualise
What do we want to design, who for
and why?
Carpe Diem:
7Cs of learning Design
Consolidate
Evaluate and embed your design
http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/carpe-diem-the-7cs-of-design-and-delivery/

31. Course features
Linoit.com

32. Course map view

33. Resource audit

34. Story board

35. Importance
• Changing the nature of
education
• New forms of
communication and
collaboration
• Rich multimedia reps
• Harnessing the global
network
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10537908@N07/5904661557/

36. Implications
• Blurring boundaries
• New business models
• More open practices
• Changing roles
• Importance of new
digital literacy skills
• Disruptive and
complexity
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssoosay/6738302627/

37. Conclusion
• Co-evolving
• Disruptive
• Unpredictable
• Complex
• New opportunities
• Social
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/6239911583/

38. Good reads
http://memex.naughtons.org/
http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/

39. http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/6197
Conole, G. (forthcoming), Designing for learning in an open world, New York: Springer
Chapters available on dropbox
grainne.conole@le.ac.uk