Presented by June Wall and hosted by KB Enterprises (Aust) Pty Ltd. Provides information literacy, ICT literacy and critical literacy models and processes for a whole school approach to digital literacy.

1. DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR DIGITAL
LITERACY IN YOUR SCHOOL
Host: Karen Bonanno
Director, KB Enterprises (Aust) Pty Ltd
and
Guest: June Wall
Head of Digital Learning & Information Services
Saint Ignatius’ College, Riverview
Participants of this workshop may use this presentation with
acknowledgement / references

2. BACKGROUND
I am the Head of Digital
Learning at a boys high
school in Sydney. I have
KB Enterprises (Aust) Pty Ltd
worked in ICT and
curriculum consultancy
and in school libraries
for many years!
... A search for something
My passion for learning, more + serendipity +
digital tools and ... continual reading = my
perspective on digital
literacy!
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4. WHAT IS DIGITAL LITERACY?
� “the ability to understand and use
information [and create] in multiple formats
from a wide range of sources when it is
presented via computers” Computer Education Group, ACT
� A new term that means a lot of old things!
� Information literacy
� Critical literacy
� IT literacy
� Higher Order thinking
� Research

5. SOME DEFINITIONS…
'Digital literacies' are the constantly changing
practices through which people make traceable
meanings using digital technologies. (Gillen & Barton
2009 :1)
Digital literacy also includes an ability to
'identify…integrate, evaluate, analyse and synthesize
digital resources, construct new knowledge, create
media expressions, and communicate with others, in
the context of specific life situations, in order to
enable constructive social action; and to reflect upon
this process' (DigEuLit project, 2006)
http://www.elearningeuropa.info/directory/index.php?page=doc&doc_id=6973&doclng=6

6. http://teachweb2.blogspot.com/2010/01/
personal­learning­environments­
student.html

7. FROM THE 2010 HORIZON REPORT
� Digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in
every discipline and profession. The challenge is due to the fact that
despite the widespread agreement on its importance, training in
digital literacy skills and techniques is rare in any discipline, and
especially rare in teacher education programs. As faculty and
instructors begin to realize that they are limiting their students by not
helping them to develop and use digital media literacy skills across the
curriculum, the lack of formal training is being offset through
professional development or informal learning, but we are far from
seeing digital media literacy as a norm. This reality is exacerbated by
the fact that as technology continues to evolve, digital literacy must
necessarily be less about tools and more about ways of thinking
and seeing, and of crafting narrative. That is why skills and standards
based on tools and platforms have proven to be somewhat ephemeral
and difficult to sustain.
Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium. Available at http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2010­Horizon­
Report.pdf Accessed 26th January, 2010

8. 1 year or 2011 H
K less
EY TRENDS FROM THE ORIZON REPORT
� The abundance of resources and relationships
•E­books
made easily accessible via the Internet is
increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as
•Mobile technologies
educators in sense­making, coaching, and
credentialing
� People expect to be able to work, learn, and study
2 to 3 years
whenever and wherever they want.
� The world of work is increasingly collaborative,
giving rise to reflection about the way student
projects are structured.
•Game based learning
� The technologies we use are increasingly cloud­
based, and our notions of IT support are
•Augmented reality
decentralized. R., Willis, H., Levine, A., and Haywood, K., (2011). The 2011 Horizon
Johnson, L., Smith,
Report.
Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.
Available at http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011­Horizon­Report.pdf

9. 3 CORE COMPONENTS
• Applications • Define • Questioning
ICT literacy
Information literacy
Critical literacy
skills • Locate • Problem
• Web tools • Select solving skills
• Multimedia • Organise • Reflective
• Social • Present thinking
networking • Evaluate
• A school • NSW DET • Blooms
based taxonomy
model

10. SKILLS EMBEDDED WITHIN TOOLS
� Deconstruct how you access and use a tool. What
skills or processes do you need to use ­
� Flickr
� Animoto
� Google Earth

11. SKILLS EMBEDDED WITHIN TOOLS
� Deconstruct how you access and use a tool. What
skills or processes do you need to use ­
� Flickr
� Know how to:
� Manipulate images to different file formats, size etc
� Register for an account or use another persons images
� Be able to create and use tags effectively
� Upload files
� Basic file management
� Be aware of:
� Creative commons licenses and copyright issues / intellectual
property

12. EMBEDDED SKILLS IN THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM

15. PREPARATION
� A shared understanding of why digital literacy is
important within the executive and how this impacts
the national curriculum.
� A decision on how ICT or digital learning will be
integrated into the curriculum – expectations for staff
and students
� A decision on the base model to use for:
� Information literacy
� ICT literacy
� Critical thinking

16. INFORMATION LITERACY
� Information process based on information resource use
� Skills required: Questioning, location, selection,
organising, collaboration with others, simple search
strategies

17. Keywords – lateral Formulates questions – What do I need to find Searching - OPACS, Starts to formulate strategy for
terms who? What? When? out? Defining terms, locating information
Where? How? Why? “chunking down” the
question Indexes, TOC, encyclopaedias, Ebsco index and full text
Brainstorming – Use of HSC terms simple searching on the Web retrieval
inspiration describe, compare, Overview of subject clustering
contrast, identify, – how the books are organised
Mindmapping outline on the shelves Identify authoritative websites
Using specific or
Britannica and MacquarieNet Internet advanced searching
specialised dictionaries
techniques – quotation marks,
and glossaries to assist
Creating a good in defining the Define refining by date and domain
question Background reading topic/task
Have I Did I answer the Evaluate Locate
answered the question fully? Identify good Skimming and
question? quality resources scanning
Distinguish between Check reliability of
fact and opinion website
Did I learn Were my notes
Evaluation of Check relevance
about the satisfactory?
websites
research
process?
Am I pleased Did I include a
with my bibliography?
presentation? Present Select
Did I include a Where could I
bibliography? improve? Sorting info according to
categories and relevance
Organise Full Harvard – including
referencing of journals and
Orals Report
online materials
PowerPoint Maps
Notetaking – skinny and fat
Word document Paragraphs notes
Essay outline (in MS Word)
Essay - simple Brochures
Using subject headings for
Animated image narrative topic. 1 page for each subject
Simple webpage (Photostory) heading

18. CRITICAL THINKING
� How to think in order to learn
� What questioning technique do you use?
� How do you enable students to reflect on their thinking?
� Skills required: Questioning, evaluating, analysing,
synthesising, collaboration with others

19. Finding Recognising
Listing Retrieving
Naming Locating
Describing Identifying Microsoft Office
Word 97 - 2003 Documen
Remember
Comparing Integrating
Organising Outlining
Deconstructing Finding
Attributing Structuring
Understand
Analysing
Categorise
Apply
Differentiate
Summarising Exemplifying
Arrange
Classifying Inferring
Explaining Comparing Connect
Interpreting Paraphrasing Divide
Analyse
Checking Monitoring
Testing Experimenting
Judging Detecting
Hypethesising Critiquing
Evaluate
Create
Making Constructing
Planning Designing
Inventing Devising
Producing

20. ICT LITERACY
� How to use applications, web tools including social
networking and new media tools.
� How do students determine which tool is most
appropriate for specific needs?
� Skills required: Questioning, evaluating, analysing,
synthesising, collaborative tools, location of
information and tools

21. Info gathering
diigo
Microsoft Office delicious
Word 97 - 2003 Documen
organising
wikis
flickr
create / edit videos collaboration
manipulate images New media wikis
diigo
tools
skype
create / edit sound files
presentation
animations prezi
Multimedia jing
Apps
Apple Windows
Word, Excel, PPT,
Entourage OS File
management
Word. Excel, PPT,
iWork Onenote
iLife Photoshop
Dreamweaver Premier pro
Illustrator After effects Folder Structures
Photoshop Acrobat Pro
Acrobat Pro Foliomaker File types - eg .jpg etc
After effects Picasa
overview of the OS for
both Mac and Windows

22. ONE PATH TO A FRAMEWORK
Microsoft Office
Word Document

23. OUR GOAL?
� For each subject and year level – to have a number of
generic teaching and learning strategies that embed
digital literacy
� That this will build skills in all core components from
Yr 5 to Yr 10
� There will be resources to support both teachers and
students in using the various skills and technologies
so that teachers and students can learn anywhere,
anytime

24. KB Enterprises (Aust) Pty Ltd
THANK YOU
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