1. COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
Hugh Davis
Yvonne Howard
Jian Shi

2. Today’s Lecture Appropriate use More about digital literacy
Information Literacy
Evaluating sources
Reproduction Literacy

3. Digital Literacy
The confident, critical and creative use of ICT to achieve goals related to work, employability, learning, leisure, inclusion and/or participation in society
Ala-Mutka, K. (2012). Mapping digital competence: towards a conceptual understanding. IPTS report. Saville.

4. Technologies Transforming everything we do
New forms of communication and collaboration
Multiple rich representations
Tools to find, create, manage, share
Networked, distributed, peer reviewed, open
Complex, dynamic and co-evolving
Slide from Gráinne Conole:

5. Literacy, n.
“The quality or state of being literate; knowledge of letters; condition in respect to education, esp. ability to read and write.”
- The Oxford English Dictionary
Discussion (3 min)
In small groups (3-4) what are the types of digital literacy that you can think of (skills concerning the use of ICT and Web 2.0 technology)?

6. A Framework for Digital Literacy
Photo-Visual Literacy
Understanding instructions and messages represented visually.
People with photo-visual literacy have
good visual memory
strong intuitive-associative thinking
helps them to decode and understand visual messages easily and fluently."
Photo/Visual
Digital Literacy
Eshet-Alkalai. Digital Literacy: A Conceptual Framework for Survival Skills in the Digital Era. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (2004) vol. 13 (1) pp

7. A Framework for Digital Literacy
Reproduction Literacy
"Digital reproduction literacy is the ability to create a meaningful, authentic, and creative work or interpretation, by integrating existing independent pieces of information."
Photo/Visual
Reproduction
Digital Literacy
Eshet-Alkalai. Digital Literacy: A Conceptual Framework for Survival Skills in the Digital Era. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (2004) vol. 13 (1) pp

8. A Framework for Digital Literacy
Branching/Hypermedia Literacy
People with good branching literacy
have the ability don’t loose orientation when surfing through the labyrinth of hyperspace.
Photo/Visual
Reproduction
Digital Literacy
Branching/
Hypermedia
Eshet-Alkalai. Digital Literacy: A Conceptual Framework for Survival Skills in the Digital Era. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (2004) vol. 13 (1) pp

9. A Framework for Digital Literacy
Information Literacy
Cognitive skills that consumers use to evaluate information in an educated and effective manner.
Information literacy works as a filter: it identifies erroneous, irrelevant, or biased information
Information-literate people:
think critically,
are always ready to doubt the quality of information.
are not tempted to take information for granted, even when it seems ‘authoritative’ and valid.
Photo/Visual
Reproduction
Digital Literacy
Branching/
Hypermedia
Information
Eshet-Alkalai. Digital Literacy: A Conceptual Framework for Survival Skills in the Digital Era. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (2004) vol. 13 (1) pp

10. A Framework for Digital Literacy
Socio-Emotional Literacy
Socio- emotionally-literate people:
are willing to share data and knowledge with others
are capable of information evaluation and abstract thinking,
able to collaboratively construct knowledge
Photo/Visual
Reproduction
Digital Literacy
Socio-Emotional
Branching/
Hypermedia
Information
Eshet-Alkalai. Digital Literacy: A Conceptual Framework for Survival Skills in the Digital Era. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (2004) vol. 13 (1) pp

11. Digital Literacies are the skills needed to live, learn, work, collaborate, influence and lead in the virtual and digital world
Business
Models
Beliefs and
Practices
Digital
Citizenship
Digital
Workpractices
Street Wisdom on the Digital
Highway
Information
Literacy
Digital Academic Practices
ICT
Skills
Identity and Reputation
Communication
Collaboration
Media
Literacy
Social
Networking
Networks
(of People)
Evaluating
Affordances

12. Information Literacy Discussion (4 min):
cognitive skills that consumers use to evaluate information in an educated and effective manner. Information literacy works as a filter: it identifies erroneous, irrelevant, or biased information […]
Information-literate people think critically, and are always ready to doubt the quality of information. They are not tempted to take information for granted, even when it seems ‘authoritative’ and valid."
Discussion (4 min):
how can we decide if something is useful information?

13. Kennedy assassination

14. Evaluation of sources Authority Corroboration Consensus
Trustedness
Provenance
Corroboration
What other references support the source?
Peer review
Data
Consensus
What do other people that I trust think?
Does it fit the framework of my existing knowledge?

15. Reproduction Literacy
Discussion (3 min)
In small groups (3-4) how do you know if you can reproduce something you find on the web?

16. Reproduction Literacy
You have both rights and responsibilities over Digital works
You have rights as a creator of digital works to decide how your work may be used, shared or exploited. These are your Intellectual Property Rights
As a user of digital works you have a responsibility to respect the Intellectual Property Rights of others
Licensing helps to protect the use and reproduction of Digital Works
Corporate licensing
Licensing of free and open source software
Other digital works e.g. Creative Commons

17. Intellectual Property
What is Intellectual Property (IP)?
Intellectual property rights are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time
…. World Trade Organisation
Intellectual Property (IP) results from the expression of an idea. So IP might be a brand, an invention, a design, a song or another intellectual creation. IP can be owned, bought and sold.
…. HM Government Intellectual Property Office

18. Intellectual Property
IP Protection
Copyright
Trademark
Patent

19. Here’s one of my pictures: if I publish it to the web how can I control how other people use it?

20. A picture in Flickr: What rights has this photographer asserted?
/in/explore

21. https://www.flickr.com/photos/araswami/32912 38011/
What about this one? /

22. Attribution 2. 0 Generic (CC BY 2. 0) Louise Docker http://www
‘Please or visit my facebook page (see link below) and let me know if you use any of my pictures that are under Creative Commons license. If you see a picture that is "all rights reserved" drop me an and I may let you use it. Please do not steal my pictures and claim them as your own.’
…. Louise Docker

23. Reproduction Literacy: Rights and Responsibilities
Copyright Icon
For protecting non digital media too, it doesn’t imply sharing
One of the Creative Commons Licenses
They have been especially designed for sharing digital works (except hardware and software); they work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs

24. Reproduction Literacy: Rights
Licensing allows you to assert your Intellectual Property Rights: Creative Commons License example
This is not a free Culture License:
You may not use the work for commercial purposes
You may not make derivatives of the work
You must give the author credit
This is a free Culture License that requires attribution of the author only
If someone infringes your rights you may sue or demand that the infringing work is removed

25. Reproduction Literacy: responsibilities
This is not a Free Culture License:
You may not use the work for commercial purposes
You may not make derivatives of the work
You must give the author credit
Your responsibility is to follow the terms of the license that has been asserted
Don’t assume that if a license is not explicit, that there isn’t one.
If you infringe these rights you may be sued

26. Today’s Lecture Appropriate use More about digital literacy
Information Literacy
Evaluating sources
Reproduction Literacy

27. Today’s Practical Work in groups Collaborate with others
Use your research from last week
Create a shared document on your topic
Answer the questions in the document
Evaluate your sources

28. The End