Integrating Digital Literacy to support student success in the 21st century
“The ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills” (American Library Association).
Digital literacy in 5 categories: 1) information and data literacy; 2)communication and collaboration; 3) digital content creation; 4) safety; 5) problem solving (Ventimiglia & Pullman, 2016).
Why Digital Literacy Today?
Educause Key Issues in Teaching and Learning - Digital Literacy is #4 on the list
NACE Job Outlook Survey - Digital Literacy among the top 8 competencies employers rate as essential
Current generation immersed in world of multimodality (print, speech, music, gesture). At the heart of this is the digital configurations of all the modes.
Employers requesting workers with the "ability to create and be innovative" in digital technologies (Hart Associates, 2015).
Design and create digital solutions. Ultimately students should build a skill set that allows them to develop or customize their own digital tools (Ventimiglia &Pullman).
In addition to content outcomes....
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. --Goethe
Envisioning Digital Outcomes
It's not about using technology because it's there.
(e.g.) Students will use two digital formats to support content findings.
(e.g.) Students will Incorporate images or graphics to explain subject matter.
(e.g.) Students will design documents using appropriate digital tools.
Embedding a Digital Moment
Creating your assignment
- Instead of 10-page research papers, students create web pages or videos that report or inform.
- Instead of demonstrating curricular content on quizzes and tests, students apply knowledge by making a documentary video explaining the role of physical therapy in the life of a project subject.
- Instead of reading about social justice issues and experiences, students record video interviews with people in the community and create a powerful video message.
- Students are asked to create a multimedia documentary "Glimpse" of a social or health issue as their final group presentation.
Teaching Assignments
Using video to develop a narrative of a condition and discuss diagnosis
The project will require the student to apply mastery of neurologic physical therapy curricular content, awareness of interpersonal skills needed to live successfully with movement dysfunction, intellectual curiosity, compassion and creativity in explaining the role of physical therapy in the life of their project subject.
Using Adobe Spark to incorporate various media for a case study
The Adobe Spark GlideShow is to include the following:
- Presentation of the specific disease process as listed in the above section
- An example case study illustrating the disease
- A series of questions that involve the case study which illicit classroom response
- A review of current research on your topic with appropriate references (minimum 3 sources, excluding the textbook or any other text/reference book, all must be scholarly and peer-reviewed)
- Equal distribution of content presentation from each group member (groups consist of 4 members) on the designated class day and time.
Questions and Discussions
References
Adhikari, J., Scogings, C., Mathrani, A., & Sofat, I. (2017). Evolving Digital Divides in Information Literacy and Learning Outcomes: A BYOD Journey in a Scondary School. International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 34(4), 290–306. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1149682&site=ehost-live
Bass, R., & Eynon, B. (2016). Open and integrative: Designing liberal education for the new digital ecosystem Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1818 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20009. Retrieved from http://152.12.30.4:2048/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/2101887647?accountid=15070
Digital skills in the 21 century. Research for CULT Committee. (August 2018). Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies Directorate General for Internal Policies of the UnionPE617.495
Hart Research Associates, Falling Short? College Learning and Career Success (Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2015), p. 13.
Herold, B. (September 25, 2018). Jobs at All Levels Now Require Digital Literacy. Here's Proof.
Johnson, K. E. (2018, January 1). Digital Native and Digital Immigrant Professors’ Self-Assessments of Instructional Technology Usage in College Classrooms. ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=ED585599&site=ehost-live
Key issues in teaching and learning (2019). Educause. https://www.educause.edu/eli/initiatives/key-issues-in-teaching-and-learning
Levy, L. A. (2015). Seven reasons why digital literacy is important for teachers. USC Rossier Online.
Lieberman, M. (March 13, 2019) Going Digital by Knowing Digital. Inside Higher ED. https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/03/13/colleges-want-students-think-critically-about-digital-tools
Spires, H.A., Paul, C.M. & Kerkhoff, S.N. (2018) Digital Literacy for the 21st Century. Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th e. Khosrow-Pour, ed. IGI Global.
Taylor, T. (Adobe Creative Cloud Across the Curriculum. E-text http://scalar.usc.edu/works/adobe/index
Ventimiglia, P. and Pullman, G. (2016, Mar 7). From Written to Digital: The New Literacy. Educause. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/3/from-written-to-digital-the-new-literacy
Voogt, J., & Knezek, G. (2018). Rethinking Learning in a Digital Age: Outcomes from EDUsummIT 2017. Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 23(3), 369–375. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1190956&site=ehost-live
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