Technology: the new mainstream?Lesley Gourlay & Martin OliverALT-C 2012

Background•JISC Developing Digital Literacies Programme •Institute of Education, University of London •Focus groups / multimodal journalling in year 1•Case studies across four areas in year 2:

•Academic Writing Centre•Learning Technologies Unit •Library•Institution-wide

Digital academic practice •Academic practices are overwhelming textual•These are situated in social and disciplinary contexts•Textual practices are increasingly digitally mediated•These practices take place across a range of domains•Students create complex assemblages enrolling a range of digital, material, spatial and temporal resources.

Digital and print literacy practices are intertwined

Practices are saturated with digital mediation via devices and practices

Practices are distributed, creative, emergent and always unfolding.

How can we best develop it?•Collect in-depth qualitative data on student practices, on a regular basis to inform development •Move away from convergent, generic, taxonomic models of digital literacies•Provide the infrastructure for divergent, messy, hybrid, emergent practices to take place•Provide interactive, dialogic guidance in areas of complexity •Develop staff awareness of the type of practices generated by assignments, and how they should be developed

Questions?Project webpage: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies/DigLitPGAttribute.aspxProject blog: http://diglitpga.jiscinvolve.org/wp/