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4 Things To Consider When Teaching Digital Literacy To College Students

1. Teaching digital literacy to college students is important as most are digital natives but still need help navigating online media. 2. Developing skills in context and information fluency, critical thinking for online research, digital learning, and identifying privacy and security issues are vital first steps. 3. Using web tools like shared documents, virtual meetings, hashtags and online office hours can help with collaboration, problem solving and distance learning. 4. Considering digital privacy, security and data is also important as human behavior and technology become more intertwined.

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4 Things To Consider When Teaching Digital Literacy To College Students

1. Teaching digital literacy to college students is important as most are digital natives but still need help navigating online media. 2. Developing skills in context and information fluency, critical thinking for online research, digital learning, and identifying privacy and security issues are vital first steps. 3. Using web tools like shared documents, virtual meetings, hashtags and online office hours can help with collaboration, problem solving and distance learning. 4. Considering digital privacy, security and data is also important as human behavior and technology become more intertwined.

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4 Things to Consider When

Teaching Digital Literacy to


College Students
Most college students are digital
natives, but they still need some
help with navigating online
media.
How can our institutions help
students, staff, and faculty “be”
online and consider how both
information and digital
environments impact knowledge
sharing and learning.
1. Context and Information
Fluency Are Vital First Steps
Scholarly inquiry requires analyzing
information for credibility and
understanding if an online resource
is primary, secondary or irrelevant.
To encourage both digital prowess
and information fluency online, we
need to develop skills around outline critical thinking for research, encourage digital teaming, and
identify privacy, security and data issues online.
2. Critical Thinking with Online Research
Digital literacy and information fluency help us improve our understanding and acquisition of
knowledge to move beyond the #FakeNews fallacies and make meaning of what we are learning.
3. Make Use of the Web for Collaboration and Problem-Solving
The new social learning helps us “join with others to make sense of and create new ideas…[it] is
augmented with social media tools that bridge distance and time, enabling people to easily interact
across workplace, passion, curiosity, skill or need. It benefits from a diversity in types of intelligence
and in the experiences of those learning.”
Some examples I have used in practice and for instruction include shared documents for education,
virtual group meetings, hashtags for learning, and on-demand, online office hours. There are many
ways to learn and work from a distance — decide what your purpose or goal is first, and then explore
what digital platforms to use.
4. Consider Digital Privacy, Security, and Data
To further this notion, we need to consider how we thrive in the digital age; this should start at our
colleges and universities.
As human behavior and technology become intertwined, it will be vital to secure our technologies,
processes, and products online. As we “live” online and continue to get hacked online, we need to
identify how we will operate in digital spaces and also prepare cybersecurity workforce capabilities
online.

The ACS @ACSnewsfeed Sep 25


90% of Australia's workforce will need
some form of #digitalliteracy in 2-5
years — Is your staff prepared?
https://goo.gl/17XXz7
What is digital literacy :
the American Library Association's digital-literacy task force offers this definition:
"Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies
to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive
and technical skills."
Hiller Spires, a professor of literacy and technology at North Carolina State
University, views digital literacy as having three buckets: 1) finding and consuming
digital content; 2) creating digital content; and 3) communicating or sharing it.

Literasi digital adalah kemampuan untuk menggunakan teknologi informasi dalam


rangka menemukan, mengevaluasi, menciptakan, dan mengomunikasikan ulang
informasi, di mana literasi digital memerlukan kemampuan teknis dan kecerdasan
kognitif. Dengan literasi digital, setiap orang akan cerdas dan kritis terhadap setiap
informasi digital, mengetahui, memahami, serta memilih dan memilah positif-
negatifnya. Dengan kata lain, seseorang mampu memfilter mana yang baik dan
mana yang buruk dari dunia digital, yang dalam hal ini berita dan informasi. Tanpa
kemampuan literasi digital, seseorang akan mudah menjadi korban dari ekses
negatif teknologi digital.

Literasi digital adalah ketertarikan, sikap dan kemampuan individu yang secara
menggunakan teknologi digital dan alat komunikasi untuk mengakses, mengelola,
mengintegrasikan, menganalisis dan mengevaluasi informasi, membangun
pengetahuan baru, membuat dan berkomunikasi dengan orang lain agar dapat
berpartisipasi secara ...8 Apr 2013. Literasi Digital oleh Iin Hermiyanto -
Kompasiana.com
www.kompasiana.com/iinhermiyanto/literasi-digital_55280e9df17e61ba098b45bc
Macam-macam Literacy
1. Literasi informasi
Literasi informasi adalah seperangkat kemampuan yang dimiliki oleh individu dalam mengenali
kapan suatu informasi diperlukan dan kemampuan untuk menemukan, mengevaluasi,
menggunakannya secara efektif, serta mampu mengomunikasikannya ke dalam berbagai format
secara jelas dan cerdas. Literasi informasi sangat penting saat ini, terutama dalam lingkungan
modern di mana perubahan teknologi yang serba cepat dan pertumbuhan eksponensial dari sumber
informasi.

2. Literasi statistik

Literasi statistik adalah seperangkat kemampuan untuk memahami statistik. Melek statistik
diperlukan bagi warga negara agar dapat memahami materi yang dipublikasikan oleh media seperti
televisi, koran dan situs-situs internet. Dalam hal ini, kemampuan berhitung merupakan syarat
utama dalam literasi statistik.

3. Literasi teknologi

Literasi teknologi adalah kemampuan individu untuk bekerja secara independen dan bekerja sama
dengan orang lain secara tepat, bertanggung jawab, dan efektif dengan menggunakan instrumen
teknologi untuk mengakses, mengelola, mengintegrasikan, mengevaluasi, membuat dan
mengomunikasikan informasi.

4. Literasi visual

Literasi visual adalah seperangkat kemampuan untuk menafsirkan, bernegosiasi, dan menciptakan
makna dari informasi yang tersaji dalambentuk gambar visual. Dengan istilah lain, literasi visual
merupakan perkembangan dari makna dasar literasi sebagai kemampuan dasar menginterpretasikan
teks tertulis menuku interpretasi produk desain visual seperti gambar atau video.

5. Literasi kritikal

Literasi kritis merupakan pendekatan instruksional yang menganjurkan adopsi perspektif kritis
terhadap teks. Dengan istilah lain, literasi kritis dapat dimaknai sebagai kemampuan untuk
mendorong pembaca agar secara aktif menganalisis teks dan mengungkap pesan yang mendasari
argumentasi teks.

6. Literasi data

Lieterasi data adalah seperangkat kemampuan untuk memperoleh informasi dari sebuah data. Sama
seperti literasi secara umum yang berarti kemampuan memperoleh informasi dari kata-kata
tertulis. Sedangkan literasi data adalah kemampuan memahami kompleksitas analisis data.

7. Literasi digital

Literasi digital adalah seperangkat kemampuan dasar teknis untuk menjalankan perangkat
komputer dan internet. Lebih lanjut, juga memahami dan mampu berpikir kritis serta melakukan
evaluasi media digital serta mampu merancang konten komunikasi.

8. Literasi finansial
Literasi finansial adalah seperangkat kemampuan dalam membuat penilaian terhadap informasi dan
keputusan yang efektif pada penggunaan dan pengelolaan uang. Kemampuan ini mencakup segala
sesuatu yang berhubungan dengan pengetahuan dan pemahaman dalam bidang keuangan.

9. Literasi kesehatan
Literasi kesehatan adalah kemampuan untuk mendapatkan, mengolah, dan memahami informasi
mendasar tentang kesehatan dan layanan apa saja yang diperlukan dalam pembuatan keputusan
kesehatan yang tepat.
Digital intelligence or “DQ” is the set of social, emotional and cognitive abilities that enable
individuals to face the challenges and adapt to the demands of digital life. These abilities can broadly
be broken down into eight interconnected areas:

Digital identity: The ability to create and manage one’s online identity and reputation. This includes an awareness of one's
online persona and management of the short-term and long-term impact of one's online presence.
Digital use: The ability to use digital devices and media, including the mastery of control in order to achieve a healthy
balance between life online and offline.
Digital safety: The ability to manage risks online (e.g. cyberbullying, grooming, radicalization) as well as problematic
content (e.g. violence and obscenity), and to avoid and limit these risks.
Digital security: The ability to detect cyber threats (e.g. hacking, scams, malware), to understand best practices and to use
suitable security tools for data protection.
Digital emotional intelligence: The ability to be empathetic and build good relationships with others online.
Digital communication: The ability to communicate and collaborate with others using digital technologies and media.
Digital literacy: The ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share and create content as well as competency in computational
thinking.
Digital rights: The ability to understand and uphold personal and legal rights, including the rights to privacy, intellectual
property, freedom of speech and protection from hate speech.

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