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Hague, C. & Payton, S. (2011) Digital literacy across the curriculum | Curriculum Leadership, Vol 9 Issue 10
Article from electronic journal. Article based on BECTA supported Futurelab handbook available from http://www2.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/handbooks/digital_literacy.pdf
Digital Literacy and Young Learners
My short annotated reference list of books and peer reviewed articles covering some of the recent research in this area. The main themes are around defining digital literacy and validating its importance as well as research into the development of digital literacy in individuals.
Agosto, D & Abbas, J. (2011) Teens, Libraries, and Social Networking : What Librarians Need to Know. This is also available as an eBook also via eBrary. Good overview and some great tips.
Barreto, S., & Adams, S. K. (2011). Digital Technology and Youth: A Developmental Approach. The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, 2 (6), 1-8. doi: 10.1002/cbl.20141
Bawden, D. (2001). Information and digital literacies: A review of concepts. [Review]. Journal of Documentation, 5 (2), 218-259. doi: 10.1108/eum0000000007083 A defining paper. Very useful explanations of the concepts.
Beautyman, W. & Shenton, A. K. (2009). When does an academic information need stimulate a school-inspired information want? Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 41 _(2), 67-80. _Useful background into research into children's information seeking behaviour
Gilster, P. (1997). Digital literacy. New York NY: Wiley Computer Publishing. Though not recent, this work is seminal to the topic and very widely cited; its definitions and ideas underpin much of the debate in the early 21st century.
Grimley, M., & Allan, M. (2010). Towards a pre-teen typology of digital media. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 26(5), 571-584. Retrieved from http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet26/grimley.html Informative background study from New Zealand.
Hargittai, E. (2009). An update on survey measures of web-oriented digital literacy. Social Science Computer Review, 27 (1), 130-137. A critical examination of recent survey methods.
Harlan, M. A., Bruce, C., & Lupton, M. (2012). Teen Content Creators: Experiences of Using Information to Learn. Library Trends, 60(3), 569-587. Survey of teens' use of sites such as Vimeo, DeviantArt and YouTube.
Hatlevik, O. E., & Gudmundsdottir, G. B. (2013). An emerging digital divide in urban school children’s information literacy: Challenging equity in the Norwegian school system. First Monday, 18(4). Retrieved from http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4232 doi:10.5210/fm.v18i4.4232 This study challenges many of our assumptions about the inherent digital literacy of the youngsters of today.
Hobbs, R. (2013). Improvization and strategic risk-taking in informal learning with digital media literacy. Learning, Media and Technology, 38 (2), 182-197. Digital media literacy case study of project involving elementary school children. See also link to her presentation elsewhere on this bag.
Jones, B., & Flannigan, S. (2006). Connecting the digital dots: Literacy of the 21st century. Educause Quarterly, 29(2), 8-10. One of the most cited papers. For a copy of the full version of the report (featuring well worked definitions ) go to http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Connecting%20the%20Digital%20Dots.pdf (link from Google Scholar).
Livingstone, S., & Helsper, E. (2007). Gradations in digital inclusion: Children, young people and the digital divide. New Media and Society, 9 (4), 671-696. Again heavily cited deals with the importance of digital literacy in combating social disadvantage. Livingstone also wrote another heavily cited article,
Livingstone, S. (2003). Children's use of the Internet: Reflections on the emerging research agenda. New Media and Society, 5(2), 147-166.
Meyers, E. M., Fisher, K. E., & Marcoux, E. (2009). Making Sense of an Information World: The Everyday‐Life Information Behavior of Preteens. The Library, 79 (3). Chicago-based Meyers and Fisher have been involved in a number of studies in and around the information behaviour of tweens.
Müller, J., Sancho, J. M., & Hernández, F. (2009). New media literacy and the digital divide. In L. Hin & R. Subramaniam (Eds.), Handbook of research on new media literacy at the K-12 level: Issues and challenges(Vol. 1, pp. 72-88). Overview of the situation globally with regards to socio-economic factors hindering digital literacy prior to 2009.
Ng, W. (2012). Can we teach digital natives digital literacy? Computers and Education, 59(3), 1065-1078. The hot topic: Australian researcher.
Sandvik, M., Smørdal, O., & Østerud, S. (2012). Exploring iPads in practitioners' repertoires for language learning and literacy practices in kindergarten. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy, 2012(3), 204-220. Very recent article focussing on mobile technology and multi-cultural experience.
Smith, J. K., Given, L. M., Julien, H., Ouellette, D., & DeLong, K. (2013). Information literacy proficiency: Assessing the gap in high school students' readiness for undergraduate academic work. Library & Information Science Research, 35 (2), 88-96. doi: 10.1016/j.lisr.2012.12.001 Interesting study from Canada.
Spatariu, A., Peach, A., & Bell, S. (2012). Enculturation of Young Children and Technology Technology and Young Children: Bridging the Communication-Generation Gap(pp. 24-48): IGI Global. An overview of how digital technology is impinging on the lives of young children and some of the implications for more informed and overt use of digital and technology in their education.
Walker, C. (2012). The Information World of Parents: A Study of the Use and Understanding of Information by Parents of Young Children. Library Trends, 60(3), 546-568. Valuable background in helping us understand how parents can be involved in developing their children's information literacy.
Wells, M. (2005). Digital literacies in the middle years of schooling. Paper presented at the Australian Teacher Education Association Conference Gold Coast, Qld. Useful background article with Australian context. Available from http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30005636
Zickhur, K. (2014) Teens and Tech: What the Research says. Young Adult Library Services, Winter 2014.
Zimerman, M. (2012) Digital natives, searching behavior and the library. New Library World, 113(3/4), 174-201. doi:10.1108/03074801211218552 Some useful survey based research in academic library context, coupled with consideration about our assumptions about this age group.
First Monday
One of the first online journals on the internet devoted to the internet. Great articles and well worth subscribing (it's free!)
Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, provides free data and analysis on the social impact of the internet. Look for the Teens topic for more detailed data.
Buckingham, D. (2006) Defining digital literacy - What do young people need to know about digital media?
From Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy. Retrieved from Nordic Journals Online database
Pearson Foundation - Survey on Students and Tablets
From their site:The Pearson Foundation Survey on Students and Tablets is one in a series of surveys to track students’ use, acceptance, and preferences when using mobile technology. The survey, now in its second year, was conducted to gauge the opinions of college students and college-bound high school seniors regarding digital device ownership and purchase intent; perceptions toward tablets; tablet usage and features of interest; and preferences between digital or print formats when reading, studying, and doing other school-related activities.
Pearson Foundation: The Digital World of Young Children: Emergent Literacy
A research white paper on the effects of digital media on young children’s learning released at the 2010 Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) International Symposium, in Washington, DC.
Nichole Pinkard on Digital Literacy (Big Thinkers Series)
The founder of Chicago's pioneering Digital Youth Network (DYN) describes how the organization empowers young people with critical digital literacy skills . There are links to other presentations and videos about Nichole's work. Very interesting ideas!
Successful information literacy programs
Created by three LIS graduate students at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. This page is great and there are some other great resources on the site.
YALSA - Teens & Social Media in School & Public Libraries: A Toolkit for Librarians & Library Workers
ALA's Young Adult Library Services Association has many great resources - including this one.
Embrace the dark side: using Wikipedia to teach information literacy
Cook, J. (2013). Embrace the dark side: using Wikipedia to teach information literacy. Tennessee Library Association staff development webinar series - Cook has developed a great program for her junior college students - wonderful activities very adaptable for info literacy for older primary and high schools students.
Literacy in a Digital Age (Blog & Conference notes)
Notes from Open University conference held in mid 2011. Some interesting ideas here.
DigitalLiteracy.gov
Portal created by Obama administration in US to support learning in this area. Links to resources for teaching and learning.
Teenagers and Mobile phones (Parental advice)
Australian governmental site. From the Raising Children Network website - "The Raising Children Network (RCN), incorporating Smart Population Foundation, is an incorporated company limited by guarantee. Its member organisations are the Parenting Research Centre and the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital who work in partnership to provide information that can help parents with the day-to-day decisions of raising children".
Adolescent Literacy - National Council of Teachers of English ...
From the National Council of Teachers of English - A summary of their executive committee discussion. Digital literacy forms part of lifelong literacy learning.
Ofcom | Digital Lifestyles: Young adults aged 16-24
This page contains an Executive summary of the "Digital Lifestyles: Young adults aged 16-24" report by Ofcom (Independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries) published in May 2009. This report was designed to give an accessible overview of media literacy among young adults aged 16-24 in the UK at that time. There are other useful links to information on media literacy on this site.
BECTA - Digital literacy
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (now defunct) was a lead agency for the promotion and integration of ICT skills into curriculum in schools. This document was developed to help teachers get up to speed on digital literacy and information literacy and has guidelines that are relevant and still in use today.
Exploring Media Literacy with Young Adults - by Gretchen Schwarz
Resource Guide: Published in the Alan Review in 2000. Sourced from Virginia Tech - Digital Library and Archives.
Younger Learners Get Digital and Media Literacy
Renee Hobbs shares how digital and media literacy can be implemented with children in the elementary grades. Presentation to the Indiana State Reading ...
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