1. Resident Librarian for Online Learning
Critical Instruction Made Digital: How Teaching Tools Mean Teaching Critical Thinking
Kaitlin Springmier
Resident Librarian for Online Learning
University of Chicago

2. Digital Literacy? Computer Literacy Network Literacy
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
ICT Literacy
E-Literacy

3. Digital Literacy
The ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet (Cornell)
Those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society (JISC).
An ability to understand and use information from a variety of digital sources (Glister 1997).
The capability to use digital technology and knowing when and how to use it (Rubble & Bailey 2007).

4. Defining Digital Literacy Activity
Draw and label a digitally literate student at your library
Consider their:
physical devices, services, software/apps and networks
functional skills
personal and social practices
professional and scholarly practices
ways of working alone and with others
ways of presenting and managing their identity

5. Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
Chuches, 2007.

6. Workshopping Digital Literacy
Choosing a Citation Manager
Are you looking for a better way to organize your research? Are you not sure which citation manager to choose from? This workshop will teach you about the many citation management tools that the University has to offer, including Endnote, Zotero, and Mendeley.
Consider the workshop description above
How does this workshop reflect digital literacy according to Church’s revamped Bloom’s Taxonomy?

7. Incorporating the Critical
internal
Content
Usage
Artifacts
of the technology.
external
Development
Effects
Social relations
bound in technology.
The five resources critical digital literacy.

8. 5 Dimensions of Critical Digital Literacy
Juliet Hinrichsen and Antony Coombs from University of Greenwich developed this excellent framework to help understand the concept of critical digital literacy. This framework is made up of 5 dimensions:

9. 5 dimensions of Critical Digital Literacy
Decoding: “Familiarity with the structures and conventions of digital media, sensitivity to the different modes at work within digital artefacts and confident use of the operational frameworks within which they exist."
Meaning making: "The reflexive process in which the content, style and purpose of the text is in dialogue with the prior experience, knowledge and responses of the reader.”
Analyzing: "Informed judgements and choices in the digital domain. Involves critical, aesthetic and ethical perspectives to the production and consumption of digitized material."
Persona: "Sensitivity to the issues of reputation, identity and membership within different digital contexts.
Using: "The ability to deploy digital tools appropriately and effectively for the task in hand. Solving practical problems dynamically and flexibly as they arise, using a range of methods and approaches, both individually and as part of communities."

10. Making your Workshop Critical
Choosing a Citation Manager
Are you looking for a better way to organize your research? Are you not sure which citation manager to choose from? This workshop will teach you about the many citation management tools that the University has to offer, including Endnote, Zotero, and Mendeley.
What can you integrate into this workshop that incorporates internal/external critique of the tool/information sources?