Keynote, Lexington County Library Public Library, South Carolina, October 2014

1. Libraries as a Bridge:
The Role of Libraries
in Closing the
Digital Skills Gap
Lexington County Public Library
System Staff Day
Bobbi Newman
Librarianbyday.net
@bobbinewman

2. - The Digital Divide
- Literacy What?
- Resources

3. The 21st
century is
when
everything
changes.
And we
have to be
ready.
-Captain Jack Harkness,
Torchwood

4. The future is here
it is just not
evenly distributed
-William Gibson

5. The snow
falling just
because
have a
shovel

6. The Digital Divide

7. One out of
five
Americans
do not have
broadband
at home

8. Access?
• less than 33% of the poorest
Americans
• less than 50% of African
Americans
• less than 50% Latinos
• less than 50% of the elderly
• less than 50% of rural
populations

9. students with a
computer &
broadband at home
have a 6 to 8 % Higher
graduation rate

10. Aspen Institute 2014

11. Myth of the Digital
Native

12. It is about far
more than
access to
technology,
it is about using
technology well.

13. We are
floating
(or sinking)
in a sea of
technology.

14. The illiterate of the 21st
century will not be those
who cannot read and
write, but those who
cannot
learn, unlearn, and
relearn.
- Alvin Toffler

15. We are exposed to more
mediated messages in one
day than our great-grandparents
were
exposed to in a year.
-Center for Media Literacy

16. of
what gets
posted on
any given
day is in
public but
not for the
public.
- Shirky, 2009

17. Digital
Literacy

18. 66 million Americans
are without basic digital
literacy skills
-Usdan 2012

19. You keep
using
that word.
I do
not think it
means what
you think it
means.

22. Digital Literacy is the
ability to use information
and communication
technologies to find,
evaluate, create, and
communicate
information, requiring
both cognitive and
technical skills.
-ALA Digital Literacy Taskforce (2011)

23. Five
Literacies

24. Attention

25. Participation

26. Collaboration

27. Crap Detection

28. Network
Smarts

29. Aspects of
digital
literacy

30. Tool Skills
and Access

31. Authorship
and
Creation

32. Representation

33. Social responsibility
And digital
citizenship

34. 21st Century
Skills Framework
from IMLS

35. Learning And
Innovation

36. Information, Media,
And Technology

37. Life And Career

38. 21st
Century
Themes

39. Transliteracy

40. Other
Considerations

41. If anyone
can claim to
be an
expert,
What is an
expert?

42. Privacy

43. What can
you do?

44. Play

45. Own your
weaknesses

46. Take
risks

47. Be Vulnerable

48. Fail

55. Remember!

56. technology
is only a
tool

57. Attitude
matters

58. Questions
Bobbi L. Newman
@bobbinewman
www.librarianbyday.net
bobbinewman@gmail.com

59. Libraries
Are
Powerful
Partners

60. Photo Credits
1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericskiff/372905058/
2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sahlgoode/5185095492/
3. Torchwood
4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/5587313307/
5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/teagrrl/403723977/
6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bright/2753331208/
7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/daunphilipp/477185363/
8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brainless-angel/120509366/
9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rapo/520551948
10. Aspen Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries, Rising to the
Challenge: Re-Envisioning Public Libraries, Washington,
D.C.: The Aspen Institute, October 2014.
11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nesster/2165079081/
12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbochet/6130218020/
13. http://www.flickr.com/photos/phineasgage/3118515933/
14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericskiff/372905058
15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/barb/83108156/
16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/soyiro/272463226/
17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/anselmogz/6682939/
18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/miuenski/2570241302/
19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicksee/3475300027
20. Wordle
21. Bobbi Newman
22. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brenda-starr/5226740045/
23. n/a
24. http://www.flickr.com/photos/elcupto/1186992673/
25. http://www.flickr.com/photos/katerha/5437876129/
26. http://www.flickr.com/photos/budslife/1771179517/
27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/7636345442/
28. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/2460922167/
29. n/a
30. http://www.flickr.com/photos/baboon/13260830/
31. http://www.flickr.com/photos/scttw/1819088991/
32. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lujide/3991307100/
33. http://www.flickr.com/photos/victornuno/23285331/
34. http://www.flickr.com/photos/angelrravelor/321594137/
35. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sahlgoode/5185095492/
36. http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbutterfly/3051019058/
37. http://www.flickr.com/photos/chinchillo/3248010563/
38. http://www.flickr.com/photos/31916678@N07/4753800195/
39. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/2908186658/
40. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cataniamichele/2618160905/
41. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/4083295771
42. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremybrooks/2515846993/
43. http://www.flickr.com/photos/92454606@N00/349497988/
44. http://www.flickr.com/photos/96dpi/1159324763/
45. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhayat/4526204795/
46. http://www.flickr.com/photos/herby_fr/172443603/
47. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaibara/5332191131/
48. http://www.flickr.com/photos/zooboing/4538568321/
49. www.digitallearn.org
50. www.everyoneon.org
51. http://libraries.pewinternet.org/
52. http://www.imls.gov/about/21stcskills.aspx
53. www.digitalliteracy.gov
54. http://www.libraryedge.org/benchmarksv1/toolkit
55. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pasukaru76/5267355952/
56. http://www.flickr.com/photos/39718079@N00/261054170/
57. http://www.flickr.com/photos/midnightglory/2481769777/
58. http://www.flickr.com/photos/miyukiutada/428153221/
59. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/4083295771

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