Critical Instruction Made Digital: How Teaching Tools Mean Teaching Critical Thinking

1. 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

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?