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Literacies to support learning in a digital age

1. Tool literacies

   1. Computer literacy (old fashioned and limited term) IT literacy (broader than computers but old fashioned)

   2. Web literacy (needed as separate if use Computer literacy)

   3. Generic services (msay also be used to support learning - social networking, blogging, WP, databases, repositories, presentations, tagging, etc... )

   4. Subject discipline requirements (CAD, Amination, Cameras)

   5. General technologies that may be used in learning (Mobile phones, PDAs, Laptops, scanners, cameras)

2. Information and media literacies

   1. Creation of content (issues of ownership, rights)

   2. Understanding research need/question (breaking it down - knowing limits)

   3. Accessing/retrieving resources (searching, critical selection)

   4. Storage of content/resources (metadata, tagging, managing resources

   5. Using content/resources in a learning context (formal or informal, alone or collaboratively)

   6. Attribution, sharing, plagiarism, referencing, rights

3. Academic/study/research literacies

   1. Critical thinking

   2. Concept mapping

   3. Problem solving

   4. Reflective learning

   5. Writing

   6. Notetaking

   7. Team working

   8. Time management/Planning

   9. Synthesis

   10. Self-regulated learning

   11. Researching

   12. Subject discipline literacies

       1. Topic

       2. visual literacies

       3. storytelling

       4. ethics

       5. statistics

4. other issues

   1. Common concepts

      1. produce/create

      2. locate

      3. retrieve

      4. analyse

      5. evaluate

      6. assimilate

      7. reflection

      8. critical thinking

      9. representing knowledge

      10. audience/users of content

      11. global - political/economic implications

   2. flavours of the month

      1. media literacy

      2. digital literacy

      3. cyberliteracy

   3. been there done that

      1. e-literacy

      2. ICT/IT literacy

      3. Computer Literacy

      4. Library literacy

   4. levels of learning??

      1. deep learning involving crtitcal thinking, reflection and self regulation/self assessment

      2. skills/competancies in using particular tools - eg library catalogue, access database. etc.

      3. transferable skills - understands databaaes enough to use range of diff tools