Title: Ingen diastitel
1Bridge over Troubled Water - Digital Literacy
Revisited
Hanne Shapiro JANUS Workshop 2004
Cheb, Czech Republic, 0100. Change money on
the corner. The mist becomes colder, bigger,
eats light, is snow. Now and then something out
there talks to you.
Saul Shapiro
2More to it than accessMore information does not
mean being more and better informed
- What does it help that my students are on-line,
if they are off-line with reality - Policies relating to skills/ICT and education
- Information society - infrastructure
- Knowledge Society - Digital content
- Learning Society???
3Current challenges
- Under developed work organisation practices
- Challenges in reforming educational systems and
lifelong learning practices to make innovative
and efficient use of ICT - Literacy, numeracy gap
- Interest, purpose and confidence gap
4Computer as a a data and information machine
- Education information
- Computers information access
- representation
- transmission
- manipulation
- A partnership on a troublesome track?
5Purposes of Digital Literacy
I've been in many gardens before, but none of
the flowers could talk. In most gardens,
the Tiger Lily said, they make the beds too soft
- so that the flowers are always asleep.
6Per cent of all persons aged 15 and over who did
not participate in learning during the previous
year because of lack of interest, 2003
Source CEDEFOP (2003), Lifelong learning
Citizens Views, Luxembourg, Office for Official
Publications of the European Communities, Figure
8.
7Computer literacy digital literacy digital
fluency?
- Abilities action-oriented competencies
- To know skills
- Identity to be - participation and interaction
in relation to a context
8Digital Literacy
- Interconnection between own identity and
purposes, abilities and skills - What type of relations and roles do we have via
the use of ICT- what roles are we set in? - What kind of self-understanding is furthered?
9Dealing with e-skills
- Operational- input/output understanding of
ICT/PC - PC-driver license, library metaphor - Or
- ICT as finger paint- design, construction -
discovery, interaction - Consequences on definitions and measuring of
e-skills?
10From IT skills to e-skills
- Installation and selection of tools
- Find and use help functions
- Problem identification, problem solving.
- Search, structure, interpret, store, assess
(broader literacy and numeracy skills) - Create, design, discover.
- Participate in dialogues - interact/debate,
decide (peer to peer/use of experts)
11Digital Bildung
- Connectivity and context consciousness
- Net morality
- Analysis and reflection
- Learning to learn
12E-action plan- e-learning agenda
- Sharing of knowledge and ideas enriches knowledge
base - To be challenged as to who I am and what I know
- Creativity
- Cultural sensitivity
- Global/local in the learning environment
We can talk, said the Tiger Lily, if theres
anyone worth talking to
13Institutional literacy
- Levels and debates
- 1) Operational PC net skills
- 2) Can integrate ICT in curriculum (materials,
learning processes and managerial processes in
existing context - 3) Can use ICT to innovate curriculum, pedagogy
and institutional frameworks - 4) Epistemological level - knowledge about how
ICT may affect learning and knowledge processes - Adapted from Päivi Häkkinen
14Digital fluency
Concurrent innovation within existing
institutional frameworks
Crop Rotation
The Plantation
Measurement, Standards- and outcomes
Community - E-inclusion
The Tropical Hothouse
The Rain Forest
De-institutionalisation
15Digital Fluency- Summary
- Much of what children learn in school today is
still connected to what we could do by means of
print media, pen and paper - Opportunity to work with complex systems and sets
of values so that it becomes comprehensible and
exciting at a much later stage in life- social
literacy - Opportunity to extend where and how we learn
16Unfolding a new Learning Landscape
Ubiquitous learning Learning portfolios De-institu
tionalisation Experimental, creative -
multi-disciplinary projects working on real-life
problems Multi-site - multinational cooperative
learning teams Floating facilitators and
partnerships