What Are Digital Literacies? Let’s Ask the Students | DMLcentral

What Are Digital Literacies? Let’s Ask the Students | DMLcentral

  • Using online sources to network, knowledge-outreach, publicize content, collaborate and innovate
  • Collecting, managing, and interpreting multimedia and online data and/or content
  • Appreciating the complex ethics surrounding online practices
  • Engaging successfully in an “Innovation Challenge,” an exercise in simultaneous multi-user, real-time distance collaboration, on deadline
  • Developing a diversity of writing styles and modes of communication to best reach, address, and accommodate multiple audiences across multiple online platforms
  • Demonstrating technical and media skills: Web video, WordPress, blogging, Google Docs, Livechat, Twitter, Facebook Groups, Wikipedia editing
  • Participating successfully in peer leadership (without an authority figure as the leader to police, guide, or protect the collaborators), peer assessment, peer self-evaluation; making contributions to a group on a coherent and innovative project
  • Cultivating strategies for managing the line between personal and professional life in visible, online communities
  • Understanding how to transform complicated ideas and gut reactions about technology into flexible technology policy
  • Learning how to champion the importance of the open Web and ‘Net Neutrality
  • Collaborating across disciplines, working with people from different backgrounds and fields, including across liberal arts and engineering
  • Understanding the complexity of copyright and intellectual property and the relationship between “open source” and “profitability” or “sustainability”
  • Excelling in collaborative online publishing skills and expertise, from conception to execution to implementation to dissemination
  • Incorporating technology efficiently and wisely into a specific classroom or work environment
  • Leading peers in discussing the implications and ethics of intellectual collaborative discourse and engagement online and beyond
  • Using the superior expertise of a peer to extend my own knowledge