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A big thank you to all who participated and listened in to #LTHEchat on Bonfire Night!
The topic for the chat was: Developing Staff Digital Fluency and was led by Dr Liz Bennett and co-hosted with Dr David Walker.
Liz’s article published in Research and Learning Technology was a trigger for the conversation this week.
Learning from the early adopters: developing the digital practitioner
The conversation began with does terminology matter and whether we should refer to digital literacy or digital fluency.
“Are these different levels?”
“Students tell me digital literacy is meaningless…”
“Fluency is productive, literacy is comprehension”
“What matters is using language we understand and can explain to students and employers”
“Being illiterate is loaded…”
#lthechat I am digitally fluent when I confidently, critically, skilfully and appropriately select &use LT to achieve my goals.
— Liz Bennett (@LizBennett1) November 5, 2014
You can read more about this lively debate by looking at the questions below that were raised by Liz during the chat and read the rich discussion curated as a Storify.
Questions
Q1: Digital fluency:Digital literacy does it matter what term we use?
Q2: What characterises a digitally fluent lecturer in HE?
Q3: what motivates lecturers to become digitally fluent?
Q4: what emotional impact does trying digital practices have on individuals?
Q5: how do we support and engage lecturers to become more digitally literate?
Answers
The answers to these questions and the discussion by tweets was captured using Storify. You can find the full story here
Next week
Engaging the un-engaged learner will be the topic for next week’s tweetchat on Wednesday 12th November 8-9pm GMT. The tweetchat will be led by Peter Reed @reedyreedles and Dr David Walker. @drdjwalker
Resources
Learning from the early adopters: developing the digital practitioner
JISC Infokit: Digital Literacies
Please add links to further resources using the comments section below.
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