Developing Digital Literacy at Your Library

1. Developing Digital Literacy at Your Library

2. www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/jocool_jofool/index.cfm

3. Media Awareness Network (MNet) is a Canadian not-for-profit centre for media and digital literacy. Vision: To ensure children and youth possess the necessary critical thinking skills and tools to understand and actively engage with media.

4. Three Core Program Areas Research Education Public Awareness

5. Vision: To ensure children and youth possess the necessary critical thinking skills and tools to understand and actively engage with media Schools = 10,000 (two thirds of schools, 80% of student enrolment) Libraries = population of 5 million

8. Young Canadians in a Wired World (YCWW) Research(2000, 2005, and 2010) MNet’s digital literacy resources are informed by its long-term Young Canadians research project -- the largest study of children’s Internet use in Canada Findings informedpolicy setting in schools, government and libraries (CLA policy document on managing the Internet in libraries)

9. Young Canadians in a Wired World Research Approximately 6,000 students Grades 4-11 French and English schools, rural and urban All provinces and territories Funded by Government of Canada

10. Young Canadians Research2000 (Web 1.0) • 79% have access at home • focus groups showed a deep disconnect between parents’ perceptions and kids’ activities • survey focused on online risk • youth have little supervision;learning on their own or from friends

11. Young Canadians Research2005 (Web2.0) • 94% have access at home • parents much more involved, but kids were making decisions on their own • a deeper understanding of what kids are doing: • normal developmental activities • relationships primarily with peers • pervasive risks; • privacy on commercial sites • peer bullying and harrassment • exposure to inappropriate content

12. Young Canadians Research2010 (Web 3.0) • social Web • mobile media • ethical decision making • content creation and innovation • civic/political online engagement • 3d virtual worlds • gender issues

13. International research • Most online sexual soliciations come from peers • Online predators rarely misrepresent themselves or their motives • Those most at risk are girls, aged 13-15, who are also involved in other risk-taking behaviours • Revealing personal information online is not a risk factor on its own • Creating good quality online destinations can mitigate certain risks for children

14. Safety issues dominate public discourse Moral panic around safety has lead to heavy-handed Responses, including criminalizing young people. Children need to be taught critical thinking and ethical decision making skills for their online activities (digital literacy skills). We need to create places for children to go online to learn these skills.

15. Digital literacy:Education sector • many education ministries, including Ontario, are focused on safety issues: online sexual exploitation and cyber bullying • few provinces have made a commitment to digital literacy in the curriculum (exception is Manitoba) • technological tools are not being integrated into classrooms (social networking, Twitter, blogging, video streaming sites, etc.)

16. Engaged Citizens Creative Producers of IT, Media and Content Cultural Empowerment Innovation Digital Literacy Citizen & CommunityEmpowerment Critical Thinkers Life-long Learning Consumer Confidence Informed Citizens Digital Life Skills User Proficiency Capacity Infrastructure Distribution Digital Inclusion Technological R&D Access Opportunity Digital Participation in Canada

17. Digital Participation in Canada Critical Thinking Citizenship Distributed Cognition Digital Literacy Networking Synthesizing Appropriation Simulation Collective Intelligence Judgement Life-long Learning Multi-tasking Navigation skills Input / Output skills Accessing skills Digital Life Skills Tools & Text Skills (ICT Literacy) Infrastructure Distribution Digital Inclusion Technological R&D Access

19. Public libraries have a longstanding and growing role in literacy, including digital literacy. User-created content will require enhanced authentication skills. Libraries will provide digital information and create new tools for understanding how to select and use information. Wendy Newman, Third Generation Public Libraries, 2008

21. Media literacy school programs PD summer institutes for teachers Other programs and speakers include: Internet SafetyIntro to Media Literacy at your LibraryPaul Nesbitt-Larking - Politics of the NewsSam Trosow - Copyright and Information PolicyHal Niedzviecki - Social MediaShari Graydon - Media Marketing Contact Heather Macdonald:Media and Health Librarian

22. Media Literacy Week www.medialiteracyweek.ca

23. http://media.atwaterlibrary.ca

24. Promoting Digital Literacy at Ottawa Public Library Staff training Promoting databases… homework help Internet safety Parent workshops New Canadians Brownies and guides

25. Staff training Formal Vendor training In-service training sessions Informal Database Stewards Staff newsletter

26. Unlocking OPL’s Electronic Resources CATS In-Service February 2010

27. Reference: Check out the Visual Dictionary Online. This includes over 6,000 images and 20,000 terms with contextual definitions. Database: Eureka provides us with full text articles from La Presse, Le Droit, Protégez-vous and L'Actualité. It also offers access to smaller English newspapers such as the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder and the Pembroke Daily Observer. Database: Read today’s newspaper through Library Press Display! This database includes the Ottawa Citizen, the Ottawa Sun, the Globe and Mail, le Journal de Montréal and the Toronto Sun. It gives you access to all images, classifieds and advertisements. It includes RSS feeds and has an audio function that allows you to listen to the newspaper content Database: Our Gale databases have a new interface! Some of the features include a machine translation tool, a citation tool to help with the creation of bibliographies and even the ability to listen to articles in mp3 format. The affected databases include: Academic Onefile, General Reference Center Gold and InfoTrac Collection.

28. Databases… great tools that need promotion School outreach Elementary schools High schools Teacher outreach Mini-sessions for principals

29. School Outreach Your Library @ Home For Research and Homework Help

30. Ottawa Public LibraryYour Library @ Home • Ottawa Public Library website • Electronic Databases • Library Catalogue

31. Mini-sessions for principals Ottawa Public Library services Why teachers and students need to learn about databases Quick intro to databases How to book school sessions and class visits to library branches

32. Internet Safety Staff training Parent workshops Working with newcomer agencies Safety on our website

34. Parenting the Net Generation The workshops touch briefly on many key Internet issues: Safety Privacy Marketing Ethics and cyberbullying Evaluation of online information

35. Newcomer Agencies Parent workshops Student workshops in homework clubs Staff training

36. Cybercitizen Badge Pilot project with Girl Guides Canada.

37. Brownies Cybersense Poem Privacy playground Doing a project Cyber Sense \\   I have a special secret,Whenever I'm online -I don't share with othersThe things that are just mine.\\   My e-mail and my home address,My phone number and name -These are just for me to know,In chat rooms or in games. \\   Instead, I use my nonsense name -It's my online identity!When people ask me who I am,I introduce my "cyber-me." \\   And when I want to surf the Web,for places that are cool,I get some help from mom or dad,or teachers from my school.

38. DOING A PROJECT? Don’t forget the library databases. Easily accessible from home with your library card And your pin # (last four digits of your phone #) Go to the library website (address on the bottom of your library card) and go to “Find Articles and Research Guides” – click on it Scroll down to sort by subject and select “KIDS” and “go” Find a list of encyclopaedias, articles, databases and more, all designed to help you with your school project. Databases vs. Websites: What's the Difference? Databases have information you can't find using search engines - like the latest magazine and newspaper articles. The information in databases is written by experts and checked before it gets published; that's not necessarily true for websites. With databases you can create a bibliography automatically. Anyone can search the web but only people with an Ottawa Public Library card can use our databases. Membership has its privileges!

39. Guides The challenge addresses five main issues girls and young women may encounter online: Safety Privacy Marketing Authentication of online information Ethics

40. Jo Cool or Jo Fool: Interactive Module and Quiz on Critical Thinking for the Internet

41. Web-based resources For Librarians • London Public Library: Media Literacy Nodehttp://www.londonpubliclibrary.ca/node/185 • Atwater Digital Literacy Projecthttp://media.atwaterlibrary.ca/ • Media Awareness Networkhttp://www.media-awareness.ca/ • Media Literacy Weekhttp://www.medialiteracyweek.ca/ • CyberCitizen Badge (Girl Guides of Canada)http://www.girlguides.ca/challenges_and_activities?news_id=85&uniqid=1594 For Parents and Caregivers • Be Web Aware (Media Awareness Network)http://www.bewebaware.ca/ • Devenir e-Parent : un tutoriel pour suivre vos enfants en ligne (Réseau Éducation-Médias)http://www.education-medias.ca/eparent/francais/ • Commonsense Mediahttp://www.commonsensemedia.org/

42. Web-based resources For Children and Youth • Co-Co's AdverSmarts: Food Marketing on the Web (Media Awareness Network)http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/coco/index.cfm • Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three CyberPigs (Media Awareness Network)http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/privacy_playground/index.cfm • CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of The Three CyberPigs (Media Awareness Network)http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/cybersense_nonsense/index.cfm • Jo Cool or Jo Fool (Media Awareness Network)http://www.education-medias.ca/english/games/jocool_jofool/index.cfm • TextEd (Canadian Centre for Child Protection)http://www.texted.ca/ • League of Super Citizens: Firewall Game (TVO)http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/privacy_playground/index.cfm • Media Monkey (Concerned Children’s Advertisers) http://play.longlivekids.ca/