Seminar Structure
| Meeting 1 (9/29) | Session 1: Welcome and Overview | Lab 1: Introduction to foundations of instructional practice. |
| Meeting 2 (10/13) | Session 2: Introduction to Digital Literacy: Skills for completing a digital project. | Lab 2: Refining your competencies mastery matrix. |
| Meeting 3 (11/10) | Session 3: Data Management: Evaluating, analyzing and securing information |
Lab 3: Approaches for assessing digital literacy skills. |
| Meeting 4 (12/1) | Session 4:Instructional Practices for Makerspace Technologies and Digital Literacy | Lab 4: Representing student progress. |
| Meeting 5 (12/8) | Session 5: Seminar Showcase | |
Seminar Meeting #1
12-2 PM on September 29, 2017
213 Butler Library
BEFORE Seminar Meeting #1, please:
1. Read the following item:
Eshet, Yoram. “Thinking in the Digital Era: A Revised Model for Digital Literacy.” Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology 9 (2012): 267 – 276. (This article expands the definition of "literacy" and outlines a framework for how we can begin to talk about a classroom that does not exclusively define "literacy" as the intellectual practices associated with reading and writing.)
2. Bring an outline or syllabus for your instructional context with you to our first meeting.
Seminar Meeting #2
12-2 PM on October 13, 2017
213 Butler Library
BEFORE Seminar Meeting #2, please:
1. Read the following items:
- Pages SG2 -5 AND SG12 - 13 of The Short Guide is an open pdf excerpt from Digital_Humanities, by Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp, MIT Press, 2012, pp. 121–136. (This excerpt identifies potential learning goals for Digital Humanities instruction.)
- Association of College and Research Libraries [ACRL] (2015). Frameworks for information literacy. New approach to the pedagogy of teaching information literacy relies on six conceptual frames to empower users.
- CTL Sample Skills Rubric for Eshet: https://edblogs.columbia.edu/teaching-dig-lit/resources/cognitive-digital-skills-matrix/
- Optional: Application of ACRL Framework to Data visualization courses: Womack, Ryan. “Data Visualization and Information Literacy.” IASSIST Quarterly 2014 Vol. 381, pp. 12-17 http://www.iassistdata.org/sites/default/files/iqvol381_womack.pdf
Seminar Meeting #3
12-2 PMon November 10, 2017
213 Butler Library
BEFORE Seminar Meeting #3, please:
1. Read the following items:
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Article on applying the ACRL information literacy standard to data information literacy: http://esciencecommunity.umass
med.edu/2015/10/09/threshold- concepts-and-data-information- literacy/ -
Optional Information: The data Information literacy toolkit: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi
/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058& context=dilsymposium
Seminar Meeting #4
12-2 PMPM on December 1, 2017
213 Butler Library
1. Read the following items:
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Blog post on The Maker Movement and the Rebirth of Constructionism .
- Seminar Final Project Assignment
Seminar Meeting #5
12-2 PMon December 8, 2017
213 Butler Library