So these past couple of months we have been busy handing out the baseline questionnaires to gain an insight into student and staff understanding of digital literacy; also where the transition points are within a students journey within Higher Education. Ultimately the result of this research will lead to the ability to target these points and help facilitate the transition.
The first part of analysis has led to analysing the definitions of digital literacy given by both staff and students and find any possible correlations. From a personal point of view I was able to split the information into 9 separate points being:
1) A basic level of understanding of IT to allow some kind of interaction with digital technology
2) A higher level of understanding and cognitive ability with IT to allow interaction with digital technology.
3) Online information, resources, literature etc.
4) Ways in which to become number 2 stated above.
5) The idea that digital literacy IS digital technology.
6) The idea that digital literacy IS digital media.
7) A philosophy i.e. revolution.
8) Unsure
9) The question wasn't answered e.g an idea of what digital literacy means to people in general rather than what digital literacy IS.
(These do not contain contexts such as, to facilitate learning or to enhance success within a personal or business setting.)
Looking at the above points, the first 2 would highlight the idea raised in my earlier post, "Digital Literacy...What does it mean??", are there differing levels of being digitally literate? Therefore is it possible to create a Taxonomy like Bloom's that is tailored for Digital Literacy????
More to think about and more to follow....
