Launching a Digital Literacy Program for the
21st Century LearnerThe Seeds of Change Project
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Our Purpose Today1. We will focus on the changing nature of
literacy in the 21st century.2. We will focus on how technology is changing
the way learning occurs > Connectivism3. We will show how we’ve applied these
fundamentals to a digital literacy service-learning project.
4. We will challenge you to think about how you might promote digital literacy in your own institution.
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Literacy ThenLiteracy 1.0
As historically considered,
“Prior to the 21st century, literacy defined a person’s ability to read and write, separating the educated from the uneducated. With the advent of a new millennium and the rapidity with which technology has changed society, the concept of literacy has assumed new meanings.”
Barbara R. Jones-Kavalier and Suzanne L. FlanniganConnecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st CenturyFlorida State College at Jacksonville
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Literacy Now:Literacy 2.0 and Beyond
What Hasn’t Changed:Literacy still means collecting the knowledge, analyzing, evaluating, and communicating that knowledge.
What Has Changed:“Digital and visual literacies are the next wave of communication specialization. Most people will have technologies at their fingertips not only to communicate, but to create, to manipulate, to design, to self-actualize.”
Barbara R. Jones-Kavalier and Suzanne L. FlanniganConnecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century
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The New Learning Landscape
In this new landscape, knowledge (digital, visual, computers, groups, communities of practice, personal communities, formal, informal) is distributed across a network of connections among specialized sets or information nodes.
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Literacy = Connectivism = LearningThe ability to construct & traverse networks.A set of actions & experiencesTakes into account technology & networksResponds to diminishing shelf life of knowledge (much of what we know today was not known ten years ago.)Information flow between information and people
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New Learner Requirements
Ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant.
Ability to understand how new information can alter the landscape.
Ability to choose what to learn and understand its meaning and impact.
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The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we need for today.
George Siemens
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The Seeds of Change ProjectWhat Is It?
The ProjectSummer Teen Work Program4 week program: June 14, 2010-July, 10, 2010Supported by the Mayor’s office and grant
fundingFocused on engagement, learning, and
application of technology skillsIntended outcome: to blend academic
objectives with meaningful service to the community
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The Seeds of Change ProjectWho Are the Participants?
Underemployed or unemployed, out-of-school youth ages 16-20
Majority lacking basic professional/technology skills
Number of participants: 12-15
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Our Pilot Program for 2010The Partnership and the Goal
We partnered with local social entrepreneurship, City Kidz Café, LLC to help promote their new anti-obesity program online.
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Our Pilot Program for 2010How We Decided to Approach the Goal
In the past, the Seeds of Change participants had been given busy work: research for the sake of research, but not toward an actual goal.
We created a student-centered program, filled with opportunities for decision-making.
Was this a risk? Some thought so, but it paid off.
Placed students in teams of similar personality types in order to create built-in comfort and support, then let the groups decide who would hold what roles and what their team portfolios would eventually look like.
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Our Pilot Program for 2010The common goal – providing a service to City
KidzIn order to provide this service, the students
needed to know more than just how to use Facebook, but also needed the ability to create, remix, and manage digital artifacts, so they had to learn digital literacy along the way – they couldn’t help but learn.
Allowed students to choose their paths toward reaching a common goal - in order to create a network of understanding for the students.
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Transferable SkillsGoogle Document CollaborationSlideshareCarbonmadeFacebookYoutubeFlickriMoviePowerPointPublisherPaintFlipcamWordpressLinkedIn Florida State College at Jacksonville
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The Seeds of Change ProjectHow Did It Work?
A Combination of Formal and Informal Learning Activities
On the formal side, we had expert guest speakers, assignments, and due dates
Explored partner business, interviewed customers and owners
Team-building activities Portfolio contest Hands-on lab and discovery learning
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The Seeds of Change ProjectWhat Were the Goals?
Learning Outcomes Demonstrate proficiency using emerging technologies
such as Internet, blogs, social networks, open source content
Recognize how to create a professional social network and associated workforce protocols
Demonstrate awareness of importance of teamwork, collaboration and professionalism in a workforce setting
*Not only were we focused on the terminal skill, but we also focused on empowering the students to think about the pros and cons of each tool they were using.
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The Seeds of Change ProjectWhat Were the Goals?
Program Outcomes Strengthen business community impact Equitable learning exchanges and shared skills
between participants and business Provide job placement opportunities Forge new connections between informal education,
youth development, and higher education
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What Did the Students Produce?BlogsOnline PortfoliosDigital NewslettersVideo CommercialsSlideshow PresentationsDigital Art and PhotographySocial Media Campaign Plans
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See for Yourself
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Parlaying Success into New Digital Literacy Initiative
Continuing Education Workshops“Social Media in the Business Environment”Partnership with Beaver Street Enterprise
CenterFaculty Enrichment Sessions
In educational technology and Web 2.0 toolsFuture Certification Program
For small business professionalsFor online educators
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How Can You Do Something Similar at Your School?
Think about How It Fits into Institutional PrioritiesFor us, community impact and SBU
Determining Your Audience’s NeedsFor us, not only mayor’s students, but small
business owners and instructors also needed some level of digital literacy
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How Can You Do Something Similar at Your School?
Choose Relevant Web 2.0 Competencies to Focus OnSocial Media FluencyOnline Profile ManagementDigital MarketingOnline Metrics/MeasurementDigital Media Production?
Sustaining the ProgramKeep track of your successes and improvementsCreate a culture of openness to Web 2.0
enrichment/continuing ed/trainingFlorida State College at Jacksonville
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Q & AWhat Questions Do You Have for Us?
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Resources Used to Build This PresentationFlannigan, Suzanne and Jones-Kavalier,
Barbara R. Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century
Siemens, George. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age.
Horizon Report 2010 and 2011
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Thanks for Your Time.Get in Touch with Us!
Dr. Julie Giuliani Florida State College
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Amy Moore
[email protected]/j21giuliani
@FSCJOpendelicious.com/fscjopen
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