Presented at a "Learning Paradigms" day for the Australian School Library Association

1. Digital literacy:
curriculum pathway to
curriculum innovation
Presented by
June Wall
@junewall
junewallonline@gmail.com
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2. How innovative
are you?
Think of an “out f the box” idea you would like to implement

3. The Future of Learning
Reality?

4. Virtually?
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6. Filter bubbles
“a world constructed from the familiar
is a world in which
there is little to learn”
(Pariser quoted in Fullan, 2012)

8. What is digital literacy?
• “the ability to understand and use information [and create] in
multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is
presented via computers ” Computer Education Group, ACT
• “A person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital
environment... Literacy includes the ability to read and
interpret media, to reproduce data and images through digital
manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge
gained from digital environments.” Viewed at
http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/connecting-digital-dots-literacy-21st-century
• A new term that means a lot of old things!
▫ Information literacy
▫ Critical literacy
▫ IT literacy
▫ Higher Order thinking
▫ Research

10. “To be digitally literate is to have access to a
broad range of practices and cultural resources
that you are able to apply to digital tools. It
is the ability to make and share meaning
in different modes and formats; to create,
collaborate and communicate effectively and to
understand how and when digital technologies
can best be used to support these processes.”
(Hague & Payton, 2010) Digital Literacy across the Curriculum Available at
http://apo.org.au/research/digital-literacy-across-curriculum

11. Digital Literacy across the
Curriculum p. 19

12. http://teachweb2.blogspot.com/2010/01/
personal-learning-environments-
student.html

13. How can you
solve the
problem of
poverty?

14. From the 2010Horizon Report
2012 Horizon Report
Digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a
Digital Literacy is less about
key skill in every discipline and profession. The challenge
is due to the fact that despite the widespread agreement on
tools and more about
its importance, training in digital literacy skills and
techniques is rare in any discipline, and especially
rare in teacher education programs. As faculty and
thinking
instructors begin to realize that they are limiting their
students by not helping them to develop and use digital
media literacy skills across the curriculum, the lack of
formal training is being offset through professional
development or informal learning, but we are far from
seeing digital media literacy as a norm. This reality is
exacerbated by the fact that as technology
continues to evolve, digital literacy must
necessarily be less about tools and more about
ways of thinking and seeing, and of crafting
narrative. That is why skills and standards based on tools
Open Education . Media Literacy: a compelling
curriculum topic for today's digital age.
and platforms have http://www.openeducation.net
proven to be somewhat ephemeral and
difficult to sustain.
Johnson, L., Adams, S., and Cummins, M. (2012).
Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). The 2010 K-12 Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media
NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.Available at
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2010-Horizon-Report.pdf Accessed 26th January, 2010
Consortium.

16. General Capabilities ...
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• ICT
• Critical & Creative
• Personal & Social
• Ethical behaviour
• Intercultural Understanding

17. Simplexity – simple from the complex
How can we create or implement an idea that is
at its heart simple while we work in complex
organisations?
1. Motivation to engage in change
2. Allow learning from mistakes and blind alleys
3. Collaboration and groups are key
4. Think of this as a system change – whole
school

18. Change Knowledge (Fullan 2012)
1. Focus – technology and pedagogy must be integrated
in roles of both teachers and students
2. Innovation – use design criteria to innovate
3. Capacity building – build the knowledge, skills and
dispositions or teachers and students
4. Contagion – open the doors both figuratively and
literally
5. Transparency – participate with others to create and
assess new things
6. Elimination of non-essentials – what are the
distractors?
7. Leadership – as leaders we must foster the above
elements in others

19. Resources
• Future of Learning approx 20 mins
• Do you teach or do you educate?
• How will you teach me in the 21st century?
• EPIC 2015
• Khan Academy
• Symbaloo
• Gliffy

20. Some references for you to explore
• Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood
Development. Innovation in Education Available at
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/supp
ort/Pages/innovatehere.aspx
• Moyle, Kathryn (2010). Building Innovation: Learning
with technologies Available at
http://research.acer.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article
=1009&context=aer
• Shift Happens 2012 Available at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVQ1ULfQawk
• Knowledgeable to Knowledge – able Available at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaAHv4UTI8

21. Thank you
@junewall