Digital Literacies.
Scaffolding from Novice to Emerging Practitioner
Scaffolding from Novice to Emerging Practitioner
Scaffolding from Novice to Emerging Practitioner
Digital Literacies is one of the three professional skills in the new set of graduate attributes. They will help students graduate with the awareness, abilities, and confidence to use digital technologies to work with data and content, and to create, problem solve and communicate effectively.
They include Technology literacy, Information literacy and are underpinned by Critical literacy.
Technology literacy.
Technology literacy is the confidence and ability to learn, select and use appropriate technological and digital tools, to achieve desired outcomes relevant to discipline.
Novice.
- Understand what current digital tools are relevant to industry and community
- Understand the emerging possibilities of the digital world
Associate.
- Understand the connection between digital possibilities and real-world use for innovation
- The ability to identify digital technologies appropriately, effectively, and efficiently to communicate
Emerging Practitioner.
- Confidence and ability to learn, select and use appropriate technological and digital tools, to achieve desired outcomes relevant to discipline.
- Utilise digital tools to create innovation in discipline
- Ability to use digital tools to communicate in a variety of audiences and within different cultural contexts
Information literacy.
Information literacy is the ability to find and use information in a digital world. This includes the ability to access and manage digital data, information, draw insights through analysis
and construct findings and outcomes.
Information literacy is the ability to find and use information in a digital world. This includes the ability to access and manage digital data, information, draw insights through analysis
and construct findings and outcomes.
Novice.
- Ability to seek out and verify information
- Ability to collate, manage and use digital data
Associate.
- The ability to critically analyse, evaluate and organise information for use by others
- Interpret, visualise and find patterns in data
Emerging Practitioner.
- Skilful use of high-quality, credible, relevant digital sources to draw insights through analysis and construct findings and outcomes
- Ethically mine and link data from a variety of sources
Critical Literacy.
Critical literacy is the ability to reflectively question the context in which digital artefacts are made and used: who makes them, who controls them and who consumes them? Where are they controlled and what are the ethics we need to consider for future use?
Novice.
- Ability to critique digital sources
Associate.
- Consider implications of the use digital practices, technology and data in the subject or professional field (such as legal, ethical, security, environmental or sustainability)
Emerging Practitioner.
- Reflectively question the context in which digital artefacts are made and used: who makes them, who controls them and who consumes them? Where are they controlled and what are the ethics we need to consider for future use?
- Ability to understand digital technologies impact on society
- Ability to understand distribution models and access channels for digital artefacts
- Ability to understand and contribute to ethical discussions
Digital Literacies.
Scaffolding from Novice to Emerging Practitioner
Scaffolding from Novice to Emerging Practitioner