webinar presented to the South Central Library System, Wisconsin, October 30, 2013

1. A Bridge Across the Divide:
The Role of Libraries in
the Digital Skills Gap
South Central Library System, Wisconsin
Bobbi Newman
Librarianbyday.net
@bobbinewman

2. - The Digital Divide
- Literacy What?
- Resources

3. The 21st
century is
when
everything
changes.
And we
have to be
ready.
-Captain Jack Harkness,
Torchwood

4. The future is here
it is just not
evenly distributed
-William Gibson

5. The Digital Divide

6. One third of
Americans
do not have
broadband
at home

7. Access?
• less than 33%
Americans
• less than 50%
Americans
• less than 50%
• less than 50%
• less than 50%
populations
of the poorest
of African
Latinos
of the elderly
of rural

8. students
with a
computer &
broadband
at home
have a
6 to 8 %
graduation
rate

9. Myth of the Digital
Native

10. It is about far
more than
access to
technology,
it is about using
technology well.

11. We are
floating
(or sinking)
in a sea of
technology.

12. The illiterate of the 21st
century will not be those
who cannot read and
write, but those who
cannot
learn, unlearn, and
relearn.
- Alvin Toffler

13. We are exposed to more
mediated messages in one
day than our greatgrandparents were
exposed to in a year.
-Center
for Media Literacy

14. of
what gets
posted on
any given
day is in
public but
not for the
public.
- Shirky, 2009

15. Digital
Literacy

16. 66 million Americans
are without basic digital
literacy skills
-Usdan 2012

17. You keep
using
that word.
I do
not think it
means what
you think it
means.

20. Digital Literacy is the
ability to use information
and communication
technologies to find,
evaluate, create, and
communicate
information, requiring
both cognitive and
technical skills.
-ALA Digital Literacy Taskforce (2011)

21. Five
Literacies

22. Attention

23. Participation

24. Collaboration

25. Crap Detection

26. Network
Smarts

27. Aspects of
digital
literacy

28. Tool Skills
and Access

29. Authorship
and
Creation

30. Representation

31. Social responsibility
And digital
citizenship

32. 21st Century
Skills Framework
from IMLS

33. Learning And
Innovation

34. Information, Media,
And Technology

35. Life And Career

36. 21st
Century
Themes

37. Transliteracy

38. Other
Considerations

39. If anyone
can claim to
be an
expert,
What is an
expert?

40. Privacy

41. What can
you do?

48. Remember!

49. technology
is only a
tool

50. Libraries
Are
Powerful
Partners

51. Questions
Bobbi L. Newman
@bobbinewman
www.librarianbyday.net
bobbinewman@gmail.com

52. Photo Credits
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/9610484@N05/2947679774/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sahlgoode/5185095492/
Torchwood
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/bright/2753331208/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daunphilipp/477185363/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/julianrod/238786239/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nesster/2165079081/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbochet/6130218020/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phineasgage/3118515933/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/barb/83108156/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/soyiro/272463226/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anselmogz/6682939/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miuenski/2570241302/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicksee/3475300027
Wordle
Bobbi Newman
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brenda-starr/5226740045/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/katerha/5437876129/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/7636345442/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/victornuno/23285331/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/angelrravelor/321594137/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sahlgoode/5185095492/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbutterfly/3051019058/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chinchillo/3248010563/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremybrooks/2515846993/
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www.digitallearn.org
www.everyoneon.org
http://libraries.pewinternet.org/
http://www.imls.gov/about/21stcskills.aspx
www.digitalliteracy.gov
http://www.libraryedge.org/benchmarksv1/toolkit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pasukaru76/5267355952/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39718079@N00/261054170/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/4083295771
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miyukiutada/428153221/

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