Sara MörtsellEducation Manager,

Wikimedia Sverige

@SaraMrtsell#ONL162Open Networked Learning

Digital literacies are the capabilities which support

living, learning and working in a digital society, such as

dealing with the ubiquitous and interactive quality of

digitally mediated information.

Ubiquity Interactivity

Part 1 - Filter bubble and Information literacies

Part 2 - Wikipedia and student engagement

Part 3 - Creative Commons and responsibilities online

Summary - Impact for teaching and learning

Eli Pariser 2011.

By Kris Krug CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Google and Facebook are omnipresent.

Information is personalized by algorithmic sorting, possible from the interactivity of the services.

Convenience and confirmation bias instead of a balanced information diet.

Eli Pariser 2011.

By Kris Krug CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Skills to assess and critically evaluate traditional and non-traditional resources.

Awareness of the conditions for how information is distributed in digital services.

● Beware online “Filter Bubbles” (2011)

● Escape your Search Engine’s Filter bubble - an illustrated guide by DuckDuckGo

Part 1 - Filter bubble and Information literacies

Part 2 - Wikipedia and student engagement.

Part 3 - Creative Commons and responsibilities online

Summary - Impact for teaching and learning

“It would appear that instead of teaching critical evaluation skills and helping learners to situate non-traditional resources within larger information-seeking frameworks, tutors commonly advise that platforms such as Wikipedia should be totally avoided, particularly true within the United States (US).”[1]

● Visitors and Residents: Credibility

● David White: The Learning Black Market1 David White 2011.

The Wikipedia Education Program

● Encourages a pedagogy about critiquing what’s wrong about information and

● act on the critique to redesign information and knowledge in open (public) digital spaces.

● Wikipedia assignments give students the skills to question unreliable information, rather than passively accepting it (information literacies).

● Students can leverage the interactivity afforded by Wikipedia to develop skills and literacies to support learning.

● Students engage in public space and can reach thousands of readers and have real world impact.

Even “free/open” spaces online are governed by norms and strict guidelines.

Part 1 - Filter bubble and Information literacies

Part 2 - Wikipedia and student engagement.

Part 3 - Creative Commons and responsibilities online

Summary - Impact for teaching and learning

This is default

- Some rights reserved, and some rights given to others. CC

Understanding licenses as rights and responsibilities when engaging online.

Another possibility to leverage the affordances of digital technologies in allowing others to interact with your material.

C - All rights reserved

Free permission is given to engage in the 5R activities.[2]

CC BY - Some rights reserved, and (five) rights given to others.

Reuse et cie 5R By Fréderic Duriez (modified) CC BY-3.0, via Formation et E-learning

2 Open Content definition opencontent.org

Creative Commons Free Photos for Bloggers the Ultimate Guide by

Foter.com licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (modified)

Part 1 - Filter bubble and Information literacies

Part 2 - Wikipedia and student engagement.

Part 3 - Creative Commons and responsibilities online

Summary - Impact for teaching and learning

Digital literacies are contextualSkills do not transfer automatically.[3]

Visitor mode tool approach

Personal context

Institutional context

3 White, D., & Le Cornu, A. (2011). Visitors and Residents: A new

typology for online engagement. First Monday, 16(9).

Resident mode spaces approach

Resident mode

personal

institutional

Wikipedia

MOOC

Visitor mode

Which activities can go in this quandrant?

Facebook

Resident mode

personal

institutional

#ONL162

Wikipedia

Wikipedia Education Program

MOOC

Visitor mode

Have a look at the complete JISC guide: Evaluating digital services: a visitors and residents approach.

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