TELIC: The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies

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THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF DIGITAL LITERACIES

DOUG BELSHAW#TELIC1, 9 JUNE 2012

“The main skill is to keep from getting lost. Since the roads are used only by local people who know them by sight nobody complains if the junctions aren't posted. And often they aren't. When they are it's usually a small sign hiding unobtrusively in the weeds and that's all. County-road-sign makers seldom tell you twice. If you miss that sign in the weeds that's your problem, not theirs.”

(Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, p.16)

THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT

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“What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone. Now that we do have some time, and know it, I would like to use the time to talk in some depth about things that seem important.”

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DIGITA

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ‘EDUCATED’?

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199730+ DEFINITIONS

“BLOOMIN’ BUZZIN’ CONFUSION”

COMPLEXITY != CHAOSCC BY-SA nerovivo

“There is a knife moving here. A very deadly one; an intellectual scalpel so swift and so sharp that you sometimes don't see it moving. You get the illusion that all those parts are just there and are being named as they exist. But they can be named quite differently and organized quite differently depending on how the knife moves.”

IMPORTANCE OFCO-CREATINGDEFINITIONS

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“Literacy is a characteristic acquired by individuals in varying degrees from just above none to an indeterminate upper level. Some individuals are more or less literate than others but it is really not possible to speak of illiterate and literate persons as two distinct categories.”

(UNESCO, 1957)

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Photo of Grandma

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Grandma

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BRANCHING

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LITERACY?

ELEGANTCONSUMPTION

BEYOND

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SUCCESS KID

LOLCATS

CASUAL PEPPER SPRAY COP

Meme: an idea, behaviour or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.

”Virgin Media did pay for the use of the photo, so everything is okay. I appreciate everyone letting me know about this! Never in a million years could I have imagined all of this would happen that day at the beach when I took this. I’m sort of in shock that it’s gone from Flickr to meme, to Virgin Media billboards in London.”

(Flickr user Laney G)

“It will also soon appear in Vitamin water commercials in the US. I’m hugely flattered by everyone’s interest in this.”

(Flickr user Laney G)

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21ST CENTURYLOLCATS

LOLCATFROM 1905

IDEA + TOOL(S) + COMMUNICATION

= MEME

ELEGANTCONSUMPTION

GENERATION OF WEBMAKERShttp://www.webmaker.org

MICHELLE LEVESQUE’S WORKhttp://rwxweb.wordpress.com

NAVIGATING WEB LITERACIES

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“Digital literacy is a condition, not a threshold.”

(Martin, 2006)

INTERMEDIATE

ADVANCED

DIGITAL LITERACYFRAMEWORK

DIGITAL LITERACY

DIGITAL LITERACIES

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ZERO AS METAPHOR

“Zero, originally a Hindu number, was introduced to the West by the Arabs during the Middle Ages and was unknown to the Ancient Greeks and Romans. How was that?... Had nature so subtely hidden zero that all the Greeks and all the Romans - millions of them - couldn't find it? One would normally think that zero is right out there in the open for everyone to see.”

ZERO IS ACONVENIENTHYPOCRISY

NEW LITERACIES ARECONVENIENTHYPOCRISIES

WE HAVE TO USE METAPHORS

SOME METAPHORS ARE REDUNDANT

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SKEUOMORPHISM

THIS IS A SKEUOMORPHCC BY marcoded

SKEUOMORPHISM EXPERTS

APPLE IBOOKS

SKEUOMORPHISMISN’T THE ANSWER

SO WHAT’S THE BESTWAY TO DEVELOPDIGITAL LITERACIES?

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‘Red Fuji’ by Hokusai

Example of sequential loading(perhaps using example of ukiyo-e?)

INTEREST

INDIVIDUALINTEREST

IMPORTANTISSUES

DIGITAL

LITERACIES

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DIGITAL LITERACY PRACTICES

CHANGE

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