COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Rikki Prince Yvonne Howard

Today’s Lecture Appropriate use More about digital literacy Information Literacy Evaluating sources Reproduction Literacy

Digital Literacy The confident, critical and creative use of ICT to achieve goals related to work, employability, learning, leisure, inclusion and/or participation in society Ala-Mutka, K. (2012). Mapping digital competence: towards a conceptual understanding. IPTS report. Saville.

Technologies Transforming everything we do New forms of communication and collaboration Multiple rich representations Tools to find, create, manage, share Networked, distributed, peer reviewed, open Complex, dynamic and co-evolving Slide from Gráinne Conole:

Literacy, n. “The quality or state of being literate; knowledge of letters; condition in respect to education, esp. ability to read and write.” - The Oxford English Dictionary Discussion (3 min) In small groups (3-4) what are the types of digital literacy that you can think of (skills concerning the use of ICT and Web 2.0 technology)?

A Framework for Digital Literacy Eshet-Alkalai. Digital Literacy: A Conceptual Framework for Survival Skills in the Digital Era. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (2004) vol. 13 (1) pp Digital Literacy Photo/Vi sual Photo-Visual Literacy Understanding instructions and messages represented visually. People with photo-visual literacy have good visual memory strong intuitive-associative thinking helps them to decode and understand visual messages easily and fluently."

A Framework for Digital Literacy Eshet-Alkalai. Digital Literacy: A Conceptual Framework for Survival Skills in the Digital Era. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (2004) vol. 13 (1) pp Digital Literacy Photo/Vi sual Reproduction Literacy "Digital reproduction literacy is the ability to create a meaningful, authentic, and creative work or interpretation, by integrating existing independent pieces of information." Reproduction

A Framework for Digital Literacy Eshet-Alkalai. Digital Literacy: A Conceptual Framework for Survival Skills in the Digital Era. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (2004) vol. 13 (1) pp Digital Literacy Photo/Vi sual Branching/Hypermedia Literacy People with good branching literacy have the ability don’t loose orientation when surfing through the labyrinth of hyperspace. Reproduction Branching/ Hypermedia

A Framework for Digital Literacy Eshet-Alkalai. Digital Literacy: A Conceptual Framework for Survival Skills in the Digital Era. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (2004) vol. 13 (1) pp Digital Literacy Photo/Vi sual Information Literacy Cognitive skills that consumers use to evaluate information in an educated and effective manner. Information literacy works as a filter: it identifies erroneous, irrelevant, or biased information Information-literate people: think critically, are always ready to doubt the quality of information. are not tempted to take information for granted, even when it seems ‘authoritative’ and valid. Reproduction Branching/ Hypermedia Information

A Framework for Digital Literacy Eshet-Alkalai. Digital Literacy: A Conceptual Framework for Survival Skills in the Digital Era. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (2004) vol. 13 (1) pp Digital Literacy Photo/Vi sual Reproduction Branching/ Hypermedia Information Socio- Emotional Socio-Emotional Literacy Socio- emotionally-literate people: are willing to share data and knowledge with others are capable of information evaluation and abstract thinking, able to collaboratively construct knowledge

Information Literacy cognitive skills that consumers use to evaluate information in an educated and effective manner. Information literacy works as a filter: it identifies erroneous, irrelevant, or biased information […] Information-literate people think critically, and are always ready to doubt the quality of information. They are not tempted to take information for granted, even when it seems ‘authoritative’ and valid. " Discussion (4 min): how can we decide if something is useful information? Discussion (4 min): how can we decide if something is useful information?

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Evaluation of sources Authority ▫ Trustedness ▫ Provenance Corroboration ▫ What other references support the source? ▫ Peer review ▫ Data Consensus ▫ What do other people that I trust think? Does it fit the framework of my existing knowledge?

Reproduction Literacy Discussion (3 min) In small groups (3-4) how do you know if you can reproduce something you find on the web?

Reproduction Literacy You have both rights and responsibilities over Digital works ▫You have rights as a creator of digital works to decide how your work may be used, shared or exploited. These are your Intellectual Property Rights ▫As a user of digital works you have a responsibility to respect the Intellectual Property Rights of others Licensing helps to protect the use and reproduction of Digital Works ▫Corporate licensing ▫Licensing of free and open source software ▫Other digital works e.g. Creative Commons

Intellectual Property What is Intellectual Property (IP)? Intellectual property rights are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time …. World Trade Organisation Intellectual Property (IP) results from the expression of an idea. So IP might be a brand, an invention, a design, a song or another intellectual creation. IP can be owned, bought and sold. …. HM Government Intellectual Property Office 16

Intellectual Property IP Protection ▫ Copyright ▫ Trademark ▫ Patent

Here’s one of my pictures: if I publish it to the web how can I control how other people use it?

A picture in Flickr: What rights has this photographer asserted? /in/explore

What about this one? 661/in/photostream/

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Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Louise Docker ‘Please or visit my facebook page (see link below) and let me know if you use any of my pictures that are under Creative Commons license. If you see a picture that is "all rights reserved" drop me an and I may let you use it. Please do not steal my pictures and claim them as your own.’ …. Louise Docker

Reproduction Literacy: Rights and Responsibilities One of the Creative Commons Licenses They have been especially designed for sharing digital works (except hardware and software); they work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs Copyright Icon For protecting non digital media too, it doesn’t imply sharing

Reproduction Literacy: Rights Licensing allows you to assert your Intellectual Property Rights: Creative Commons License example This is a free Culture License that requires attribution of the author only This is not a free Culture License: You may not use the work for commercial purposes You may not make derivatives of the work You must give the author credit If someone infringes your rights you may sue or demand that the infringing work is removed

Reproduction Literacy: responsibilities If you infringe these rights you may be sued This is not a Free Culture License: You may not use the work for commercial purposes You may not make derivatives of the work You must give the author credit Your responsibility is to follow the terms of the license that has been asserted Don’t assume that if a license is not explicit, that there isn’t one.

Today’s Lecture Appropriate use More about digital literacy Information Literacy Evaluating sources Reproduction Literacy

Today’s Practical Work in groups Collaborate with others Use your research from last week ▫Create a shared document on your topic ▫Answer the questions in the document ▫Evaluate your sources

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