Introductory slides to the Digital Literacy Symposium at the World Conference on Computers in Education, Dublin, 4th July 2017

1. WCCE 2017
Dublin, Ireland
4th July 2017
The Great Digital Literacy Debate:
Foresight Symposium

2. @mbrownz
Chair in Digital Learning
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning

3. • Over 4000 students
• More than 125 full-time staff
• Early Childhood to Adult Education
• Committed to embedding Digital Learning
• Hosts the Lego Education Innovation Studio

4. DCU All Hallows
Campus

6. 10 DCU Connected
Scholarships for Refugees

8. Professor Deirdre Butler
@butlerDee
Dr Doug Belshaw
@dajbelshaw

9. Why this debate?

10. Digital Literacy

11. 2015
Identified over 100 models and frameworks which to
greater or lesser extent purport to encapsulate the
various dimensions of digital skills, literacies or
competencies.

12. 2017

15. “… participating in society,”

16. “entertainment, etc”
“… participating in society,”

17. For the purpose of this report we can define digital skills, literacies or
competencies as ....
“the capabilities which fit someone for living, learning
and working in a digital society, with the knowledge
that a digital society is ever evolving” (p.18).

21. Critical
Consumers
Critical
Citizens
LEARNING
TO BE
LEARNING
TO KNOW
LEARNING
TO DO
LEARNING
TO LIVE
TOGETHER
Critical
Thinkers
Digital literacies
are about what it means to be an
educated person in the 21st Century

22. Digital literacies are about
our ideas of what constitutes the
good society

23. Professor Deirdre Butler
@dutlerDee
Dr Doug Belshaw
@dajbelshaw

24. What is digital literacy?
What are the essential elements?
@dajbelshaw

25. What does it mean for schools?
What are the implications for teacher education?
@butlerDee

26. WCCE 2017
Dublin, Ireland
4th July 2017
The Great Digital Literacy Debate:
Foresight Symposium