1. Teaching Digital Citizenship with Metaliteracy Badges
Learning with Innovative Technology Conference
July 7, 2017

2. The Team University at Albany Empire State College
Stephanie Affinito, Literacy Teaching and Learning
Kelsey O’Brien, University Library
Trudi Jacobson, University Library
Empire State College
Michele Forte
Donna Mahar
SUNY Office of Library & Information Services
Karen Gardner-Athey
The Team

3. Overview of Innovative Instruction & Technology Grant (IITG)
Collaborative project: University at Albany & Empire State College
Adapts Metaliteracy Badging System to produce a customized badge for teacher education programs
Includes a suite of resources for higher education faculty and K-12 educators interested in metaliteracy and digital badging
Enhances students’ ability to participate successfully and responsibly as digital citizens
Foregrounds exciting disciplinary overlaps between literacy studies and metaliteracy
Will be available to all interested SUNY institutions
IITG Project Page

4. A Three Stage Plan Refine: Create: Share:
Add features to scale the system for customized use by other disciplines and institutions.
Create:
Create discipline-specific Metaliteracy badges for teacher education programs
Share:
Create The Educator's Corner and a K-12 conference on digital badging.

5. Refine

6. “Metaliteracy expands the scope of traditional information skills (determine, access, locate, understand, produce, and use information) to include the collaborative production and sharing of information in participatory digital environments (collaborate, participate, produce, and share)” (p. 1).
Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners
(Mackey and Jacobson, 2014).

7. “Metaliteracy promotes critical thinking and collaboration in a digital age, providing a comprehensive framework to effectively participate in social media and online communities.”
Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson “Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy” College & Research Libraries. January :62.

8. Four Domains of Metaliteracy
Metacognitive:
what learners think about their own thinking—a reflective understanding of how and why they learn, what they do and do not know, their preconceptions, and how to continue to learn
Cognitive:
what students should know upon successful completion of learning activities—comprehension, organization, application, evaluation
Behavioral:
what students should be able to do upon successful completion of learning activities—skills, competencies
Affective:
changes in learners’ emotions or attitudes through engagement with learning activities
Mackey and Jacobson (2014) Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners

9. Mackey and Jacobson (2014) Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners

10. Metacognition
“The use of the term metaliteracy suggests a way of thinking about one’s own literacy. To be metaliterate requires individuals to understand their existing literacy strengths and areas for improvement and make decisions about their learning” (p. 2). Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners (Mackey and Jacobson, 2014).

11. The Badge CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen
What is a Digital Badge?
A record of achievement
Acknowledgement of an accomplishment
Indication of a proven skill
Evidence of learning
Verification of competency
Validation of non- traditional skills or experiences
The Badge CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen

12. Open Badges OBI (Open Badges Infrastructure) Tech specification
Portability
Transparency
Accessibility (earners, issuers, consumers)
Values lifelong learning
Open Badge Anatomy CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen

13. Workplace Community K-12 Higher Ed
Detroit Digital Adventure
Microsoft Educator Network
Cities of LRNG
IBM
Digital Promise
If Microsoft Educator link won’t open Copy and Paste into address bar:
Aurora Public Schools Badge Program
)DigitalMe (UK)
Penn State Digital Badges
Purdue Passport

14. The Metaliteracy Badges

16. Credly Page

17. Create

18. Digital Citizenship
Create a discipline-specific Digital Citizen badge for teachers in a graduate education program.
Critical area of knowledge, both K- 12 and beyond
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards
SUNY Task Force on Social Media Responsibility
No one’s responsibility to teach in some depth
Teaching graduate students who will then teach at K-12 level a double benefit

19. Digital Citizenship for Educators
Customization Features
Rubrics
Templates
Guides
Pilot for future collaborations
for Educators

20. Digital Citizenship for Educators
Quest #1: Exploring Children’s Media Literacy and Digital Literacy Practices
Quest #2: Creating a Digital Citizenship Curriculum in K- 6 Education
Culminating Project: Multi- Media Resources for the Classroom

21. Share

22. Educator’s Corner
A suite of open online resources for SUNY faculty who are interested in implementing the metaliteracy badges in their courses and programs.

23. K-12 Summer Conference (August 25th)
Connect faculty, graduate students, teachers and administrators, and will foster exploration of badging applications in K-12 teaching contexts.

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25. https://sites.google.com/view/digitalconference

26. LEARNING PATHWAYS
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27. Learning Pathway Goals
Integrate mechanisms for customizing and remixing metaliteracy content according to disciplinary themes; ​
Extend and apply metaliteracy concepts to specific disciplines, programs and courses with customized metaliteracy “tokens;” ​
Model potential applications of the Metaliteracy Badging System that will facilitate use by all SUNY faculty members.

28. Pathway Builder

29. Fostering Collaboration
Shared responsibility between librarian and disciplinary instructors​
Informative vs. prescriptive -- conversation starters​
Illustrates the many facets of metaliteracy​
Openness to new content - seeing where collaborations lead​

30. Lessons Learned
Collaborations may find you if you promote your project to diverse groups
Look for points of congruence—start conversations
Flexibility is the key

31. Lessons Learned
Money helps
More money helps more

32. Lessons Learned Allow for more time: it will take longer than expected
How does that affect collaboration?
Have a plan B

33. Lessons Learned About Collaborative Venture
Course integration has to be:
Well-planned
Valued
Integrated into an overall system of content
Pilot Classes:
ELTL 500: Classroom Literacy Instruction
ELA Methods Class

34. Questions?

35. Thanks for attending! Let’s continue the conversation: @metaliteracy
Conference link:
Educator’s Corner: