students do have digital skills, but not necessarily the digital literacy they need to do their schoolwork.
There’s a difference in the way students use a device to scroll through YouTube videos versus understanding the information delivered in a lesson. The first is passive, and the other requires careful engagement.
n the International Literacy Association’s “What’s Hot in Literacy” report published in 2020, 49 percent of literacy professionals said they wanted more professional development on “using digital resources to support literacy instruction.” That surprised the researchers, who also reported that professionals were split over whether digital literacy was receiving the appropriate amount of attention: 26 percent felt it deserved less attention, while 25 percent felt it should get more.
This purpose of this second group project is to relate the concepts of the text to present organizations. Each Team will select an organization or create an organization and present on that organization. The focus of this project is sustainability, and accounts for 30% of the grade. The presentation will consist of 20 to 30 minutes, a presentation of 10 to slides 20 slides, complete with a 10-15-page paper. The presentation and paper will be due electronically prior to class. Members will be graded on 50% contribution and 50 % presentation. The objective of this exercise is to develop skills in working as a team as well as developing your presentation skills.
The paper shall address the following analysis to the selected organization:
The firm may a service or manufacturing firm, or one that you create.
Relate each Chapter of the book (minimum twelve chapter relationships)
The relationship could be made from a topic within that chapter.
All projects must be uploaded in D2L/Brightspace by start of class, 9:30 AM, March 30, 2021
Why Keyword Searching?
Why not just type in a phrase or sentence like you do in Google or Yahoo!?
Because most electronic databases store and retrieve information differently than Internet search engines.
A databases searches fields within a collection of records. These fields include the information commonly found in a citation plus an abstract (if available) and subject headings. Search engines search web content which is typically the full text of sources.
The bottom line: you get better results in a database by using effective keyword search strategies.
To develop an effective search strategy, you need to:
determine the key concepts in your topic and
develop a good list of keyword synonyms.
Why use synonyms?
Because there is more than one way to express a concept or idea. You don’t know if the article you’re looking for uses the same expression for a key concept that you are using.
Consider: Will an author use:
Hypertension or High Blood Pressure?
Teach or Instruct?
Therapy or Treatment?
Class assignment (5-10 Min)
Share keywords related to the Engineering Management Project
Getting Ready for Research (15-20 min)
Library Resources vs. the Internet (do we need to discuss?)
walk together through the eBooks dbases to figure out logins and search techniques.
Personal work with the librarian (5 min each student)
using the list of keywords and the information sources, collaborate with the librarian to find 3-5 references for your project
UKSG webinar – The importance and use of digital primary sources in teaching and research
#UKSGWebinar
poll: do scholars in your institution have access to internal support or training for digital primary source research and teaching
Peter Foster with Wiley, facilitator
Hugh Murphy, Head of Collections and Content, Maynooth Univesity Library, Ireland
@hughtweet
what is a primary source.
Functionality (ability to access)
U collections as part of a larger U ecosystem. Conceptional change for Special Collections
Teaching Learning and Research: “digitally-enabled and technology-supported learning” – strategic planning
Research: digital humanties dhlag.yale.edu/project/vogue
Open Access (publishers ARE business). For a small country (university), how much will a publisher pay attention? Will a standard pay attention to OCR a 16th century document.
Sarah Evans, Research and Collections Engagement Manager, Royal Geographical Society with IBG
Some think the information and trust environment will worsen by 2030 thanks to the rise of video deepfakes, cheapfakes and other misinformation tactics.
Power Imbalance: Democracy is at risk because those with power will seek to maintain it by building systems that serve them not the masses. Too few in the general public possess enough knowledge to resist this assertion of power.
EXPLOITING DIGITAL ILLITERACY
danah boyd, principal researcher at Microsoft Research and founder of Data & Society, wrote, “The problem is that technology mirrors and magnifies the good, bad AND ugly in everyday life. And right now, we do not have the safeguards, security or policies in place to prevent manipulators from doing significant harm with the technologies designed to connect people and help spread information.”
Just because our students are surrounded by technology doesn’t mean that they know how to use it responsibly or effectively for educational purposes. We need to check that our students have basic tech skills & teach them digital literacy & digital citizenship. @Rdene915#EdTechpic.twitter.com/GUMVRxQ4Jb
In September, “three members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a version of the Digital Equity Act of 2019…The proposal would authorize up to $250M a year in funding for state and community digital inclusion efforts.”https://t.co/y7M2VHjdYI via @netinclusion
the idea of a blog. the advantages compared to SM such as WeChat / Facebook
Reflections
Multimedia
Connecting blogs to social media (WeChat and similar)
Digital Literacy instruction
what is digital literacy and how does it differ from other literacies? Why is it important?
What other literacies must be considered when speaking about DL? E.g. media literacy: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=media+literacy
Internet Resources
How do we search?
Google and Google Scholar (more focused, peer reviewed, academic content)
SCSU Library search, Google, Professional organization, (NASSP), Stacks of magazines, csu library info, but need to know what all of the options mean on that page
