Digital Literacy and Student Success across the ACC Curriculum

Digital Literacy and Student Success across the ACC Curriculum An invitation to innovation

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The answers to important questions about technology and education can be found when a diverse array of committed people get around a table and talk creatively and honestly about where they aim to go.

"Ten Commandments for Instructional Technology"

Partnership with Adobe as a CATALYST to complement mission, attain vision, enable strategic goals, achieve student learning outcomes, and enable and empower students, faculty and staff.

Sentipensante

sensing + feeling

pathos + logos

"The connection of our inner lives with our intellectual (and professional) abilities."

Digital Cajitas

validating student work as worth crafting and circulating

building from student personal, spiritual, and communal "capital"

connect through high-impact and deep learning experiences

The World Economic Forum reports that you need the ten skills listed below to thrive in 2020:

(1) Complex problem solving

(2) Critical thinking

(3) Creativity

(4) People management

(5) Coordinating with others

(6) Emotional intelligence

(7) Judgement and decision making

(8) Service orientation

(9) Negotiation

(10) Cognitive flexibility

content delivery and consumption

surveillance administration

tools in the hands of the students

"high-touch" pedagogy is the key

2008-2016 Resource Desert: the Answer is "No"

2016 Resource Orchard: the Answer is "Yes"

Students prototype a mobile app using XD instead of writing a proposal.

Students collaborate to publish a scientific journal using InDesign instead of writing a literature review alone.

Students design a presentation microsite using Spark Page instead of formatting a slide deck.

Students raise awareness by creating a documentary film using Premiere Rush instead of writing a research paper.

"Our Lives Together" by Carrie Lewis

Prototype.

Collaborate.

Publish.

Design.

Raise Awareness.

Compose.

Create.

Context: The Third (or Fourth) Industrial Revolution

New York Times: "Welcome to the Post-Text Future"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/09/technology/the-rise-of-a-visual-internet.html

"I’ll make this short: The thing you’re doing now, reading prose on a screen, is going out of fashion. . . . The defining narrative of our online moment concerns the decline of text, and the exploding reach and power of audio and video."

- Farhad Manjoo

Digital Renaissance

Science + Art

Technology + Humanity

Re-examination and Re-articulation of the Value and Role of Higher Education

Strategic Plans, Mission Statements, Assessment Programs, Student Success Metrics, QEPs
Transformative student experiences that prepare students to change their digital, global professions and communities

High-Impact, Hi-Touch, Experiential, Applied, Active Teaching and Learning

Students are no longer passive consumers of knowledge and information.
Students become active producers of knowledge and information.
Learning by doing, making, problem-solving = creative, critical thinking and learning.
Learning outcomes and capacities that transfer

At UNC Chapel Hill, we are using Adobe Creative Cloud as a "virtual maker space" that travels with students wherever they go:

to produce and circulate intellectual work

to critically and creatively solve problems for themselves, their communities, families, professions, institutions, and organizations

The Essential Skill for the Information Age

(1) Identify, locate, or generate the best information

(2) Discover or analyze a pattern within the information

(3) Articulate a perspective, solution, or call-to-action based upon analysis

UNC Digital Literacy Team and Program Recipe

FOUR STUDENTS

Education: Julio "Our Kids in Cages"

Patient Care: Carrie "Our Lives Together"

Community Engagement: Sarah "Historic Occoneechee Speedway"

Research, Innovation & Economic Development: Maneesha and Scientific Tar Heel

"Our Lives Together" is a documentary short film made by Carrie Lewis, who had never made a film before this class. The film tells the story of a family's poignant struggle with Alzheimer's disease through the words of loving, faithful wife and her thoughtful, caring son.

Link to 7:41

In what kinds of courses/departments might "Our Lives Together" belong?

From a Student Experience perspective, how might an assignment like "Our Lives Together" compare with a conventional research paper on such a topic?

From a Faculty perspective, how might an assignment like "Our Lives Together" compare with a conventional research paper on such a topic?

https://speedwayproject.myportfolio.com/

Omni-Literate Students Who Learn to Solve Problems through Design Thinking

TOOL vs. INSTRUMENT

Critical Literacy = From Knowledge Consumers to Knowledge Producers

Critical Digital Literacy = From Media/Information Consumers to Media/Information Producers

Digital Literacy Pedagogy is not just merely aesthetic; it's epistemological.

Digital Literacy Pedagogy is not just surface, it's substance.

1) Early success and retention

a manifold to the undergraduate curriculum

2) Success across the curriculum and time-to-degree through transformative, high-impact, experiential learning

Watch One -- Do One -- Teach One

Adobe Creative Cloud is a Virtual Maker Space that travels with students where they live and work through their mobile devices.

Rebecca Atkinson https://www.behance.net/gallery/16086309/Z-Track-Procedure

https://issuu.com/tiffanyfriedman/docs/scientific_tar_heel_vol._1

3) Success on the job market: Professional, Technical, and Scientific Communication

producing work that demonstrates capabilities

4) Success as life-long learners

"I thought of you because I am now in charge of my division's blog; I just utilized some HTML code that you taught me during my freshman year [2000]! When I reflect back on how I have used the skills you taught in that class, I am amazed by what a positive impact you've had on my life. By using multimedia, you helped me understand the importance of strong communication skills as well as given me unique skills [that others in my profession do not have]."

Sep - Nov 2016 from Launch to Warp Speed: Faculty Development, Networking, and "Viral" Change/Influence

Flattening the Learning Curve

Adobe Creative Cloud apps, menus, and interfaces are increasingly simple, intuitive, and powerful.

The students are increasingly digital native.

Instructional and IT support staff are increasingly adept and experienced.

New-gen faculty are increasingly innovative.

Carolina Guerry, Clemson Oceanography

http://spark.adobe.com

Faculty Development and Support

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Created By

Todd Taylor

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Credits:

Created with images by doctor-a - "glowing uv luminescent" • Miguel Henriques - "untitled image" • arvin febry - "untitled image" • Lachlan Donald - "Ghost town tool shed" • Pexels - "hands spinning workshop" • Parsing Eye - "Deadvlei 💀" • Skitterphoto - "apple tree garden" • mp1746 - "apple pie dining food sweet baker taste" • Art Poskanzer - "heating manifold" • skeeze - "discovery space shuttle launch mission astronauts liftoff"