Monday
Apr202009
LILAC 2009: Information literacy and emerging technology
Monday, April 20, 2009 at 12:04PM
I only managed to attend one of the sesions on emerging technology Are we sharing our toys in the sandpit? A discussion on issues surrounding the re-use and re-purposing of electronic information literacy learning objects in the UK. where there emerged lots of the issues surrounding this area and the possiblity of interested parties coming together.
The use of mobile technology got people talking
If they won't turn them off, we might as well use them. Using mobile ‘phones in information skills sessions Andrew Walsh and Information Literacy meets the Mobile Web - Peter Godwin (see Vicki Owen's posting about both these sessions).
Other sessions covered various aspects of Web 2.00 including Second Life Aspects of information literacy in virtual worlds - Sheila Webber (Sheffield University Department of Information Studies), Vicki Cormie (St Andrews University Library), Lyn Parker (Sheffield University Library) and Marshall Dozier & Denny Colledge (Edinburgh University Library). The presenters all have experience of teaching and/or supporting teaching on their universities’ Second Life islands (Sheffield’s Infolit iSchool, Edinburgh’s Vue and St Andrews’ Minerva Island).
One of the key note speakers Melissa Highton Head of the Learning Technologies Group (LTG) at University of Oxford talked about the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge using iTunes U to record one off experiences (lectures). She also talked about Digital Literacy which she said there was no definition as yet (I think she menat agreed definition) and asked who would shape a Digital Literacy Framework. Surprisingly she didn't mention the earlier work of Alan Martin and the DigEuLit Project - A European framework for Digital Literacy. She stated that learners need to aquire an increasingly complex range of skills for effective lifelong learning including information literacy and e-learning skills, and with the emergence of new technologies we all need to.
The use of mobile technology got people talking
If they won't turn them off, we might as well use them. Using mobile ‘phones in information skills sessions Andrew Walsh and Information Literacy meets the Mobile Web - Peter Godwin (see Vicki Owen's posting about both these sessions).
Other sessions covered various aspects of Web 2.00 including Second Life Aspects of information literacy in virtual worlds - Sheila Webber (Sheffield University Department of Information Studies), Vicki Cormie (St Andrews University Library), Lyn Parker (Sheffield University Library) and Marshall Dozier & Denny Colledge (Edinburgh University Library). The presenters all have experience of teaching and/or supporting teaching on their universities’ Second Life islands (Sheffield’s Infolit iSchool, Edinburgh’s Vue and St Andrews’ Minerva Island).
One of the key note speakers Melissa Highton Head of the Learning Technologies Group (LTG) at University of Oxford talked about the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge using iTunes U to record one off experiences (lectures). She also talked about Digital Literacy which she said there was no definition as yet (I think she menat agreed definition) and asked who would shape a Digital Literacy Framework. Surprisingly she didn't mention the earlier work of Alan Martin and the DigEuLit Project - A European framework for Digital Literacy. She stated that learners need to aquire an increasingly complex range of skills for effective lifelong learning including information literacy and e-learning skills, and with the emergence of new technologies we all need to.
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