Rethinking Digital Literacy
facilitated by Paul Signorelli  4-week eCourse Beginning Monday, May 1, 2017

http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=11469&zbrandid=4634&zidType=CH&zid=43393326&zsubscriberId=1026665847&zbdom=http://ala-publishing.informz.net

Learning outcomes

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• incorporate ever-evolving definitions of digital literacy into learning opportunities
• draw upon a variety of digital resources to create digital-learning opportunities
• seek additional resources that you can use in your continuing efforts to keep up with new developments in digital literacy in libraries and other learning organizations

What is digital literacy? Do you know how you can foster digital literacy through formal and informal learning opportunities for your library staff and users?

Supporting digital literacy still remains an important part of library staff members’ work, but sometimes we struggle to agree on a simple, meaningful definition of the term. In this four-week eCourse, training/learning specialist Paul Signorelli will begin by exploring a variety of definitions, focusing on work by a few leading proponents of the need to foster digital literacy among people of all ages and backgrounds. He will explore a variety of digital-literacy resources – including case studies of how we creatively approach digital-literacy learning opportunities for library staff and users, and will explore a variety of digital tools that will help to encourage further understanding of this topic.

Now, who is ready to build their digital-literacy skills and help their users become digitally literate as well?

eCourse Outline

Part 1: Digital Literacy: Initial Definitions and Explorations

• An overview of various definitions of digital literacy
• Several components of digital literacy
• Exploring Doug Belshaw’s extensive work on defining and fostering digital literacy https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/11/12/digital-literacy-3/

Part 2: Digital Literacy: Crap Detection and Other Skills and Tools

• Exploring Howard Rheingold’s approach to crap detection and other digital literacy/net literacy skills
• Participation, collaboration, creativity, and experimentation as digital-literacy skills
• Building our digital-literacy toolkit

Part 3: Digital Literacy in Learning

• The varying digital literacy needs of our youngest students, of teens, and of adults
• Exploring various online resources supporting our digital-literacy training-teaching-learning efforts
• The myth of the digital native

Part 4: Fostering Digital Literacy: Creating Within a Digital Environment

• Creating a framework to promote digital literacy
• Designing workshops and other learning opportunities
• Keeping up in an evolving digital literacy landscape

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more on digital literacy in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=digital+literacy