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Closing the Digital Skills Gap
The document discusses the digital skills divide in America, highlighting that a significant portion of the population lacks access to broadband and digital literacy skills, particularly among marginalized groups. It emphasizes the importance of not just technology access but the ability to effectively use technology for learning, and advocates for libraries as essential partners in providing digital literacy education. Various resources and references are provided to support digital literacy initiatives.
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Closing the Digital Skills Gap
- 1. The Digital Skills Divide: Closing the Gap Bobbi Newman http://librarianbyday.net
- 2. - The DigitalDivide - Literacy What? - Resources
- 3. The 21st century is when everything changes. Andwe have to be ready. -Captain Jack Harkness, Torchwood
- 4. The future ishere it is just not evenly distributed -William Gibson
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- 6. One third ofAmericans do not have broadband at home
- 7. Who Has Access? •less than 33% of the poorest Americans • less than 50% of African Americans • less than 50% Latinos • less than 50% of the elderly • less than 50% of rural populations
- 8. students with a computer & broadband athome have a 6 to 8 % higher GPA
- 9. It is aboutfar more than access to technology, it is about using technology well.
- 10. We are floating (or sinking) in an ocean of technology.
- 11. The illiterate ofthe 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler
- 13. We are exposedto more mediated messages in one day than our great-grandparents were exposed to in a year -Center for Media Literacy
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- 15. 66 million Americans are without basic digital literacy skills -Usdan 2012
- 16. You keep usingthat word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
- 18. Rheingold’s Five Literacies
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- 24. 21st Century Skills Framework by Instituteof Museum and Library Services
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- 35. the ability toread, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.
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- 38. If anyone can claimto be an Expert, What is an expert?
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- 40. …much of whatgets posted on any given day is in public but not for the public. - Shirky
- 41. Remember technology is only a TOOL
- 42. Libraries Are Powerful Partners
- 43. Libraries are the placewhere all literacies meet and mix
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- 64. References • ALA supports FCC proposal to fund digital literacy training through public libraries. (2012, April 3).District Dispatch. Retrieved from http://www.districtdispatch.org/2012/04/ala- supports-fcc-proposal-to-fund-digital-literacy-training-through-public-libraries/ • Aspen Institute to Advance Recommendations of the Knight Commission. (2010, May 18).Knight Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.knightfoundation.org/press- room/press-release/aspen-institute-to-advance-recommendations-of-the/ • Becker, S., Crandall, M. D., Fisher, K. E., Kinney, B., Landry, C., & Rocha, A. (2010). Opportunity for American Library Association. (2011). The state of America's libraries: A report from the American Library Association. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Retrieved from http://ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/mediapresscenter/americaslibraries2011/state_of_a mericas_libraries_report_2011.pdf • Clochesy, J. M. (2008). The experience of diversity by generation: how to bridge the differences. Diversity Factor, 16(4), 1 • DiMaggio, P., & Hargittai, E. (2001). From the ‘digital divide’ to ‘digital inequality’: Studying internet use as penetration increases. Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University: Center for the Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. • Federal Communications Commission. (2010). Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan. Washington, D.C: Federal Communications Commission.
- 65. References • Genachowski, J. (2011, November). FCC & “Connect to Compete” tackle barriers to broadband adoption, Face Sheet for Chairman Genachowski Remarks on Broadband Adoption, Speech presented in Washington, D.C. Retrieved from http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-310924A1.pdf • Hoffman, J., Bertot, J. C., Davis, D. M., & Clark, L. (2011). Libraries connect communities: public library funding & technology access study 2010-2011. Chicago: American Library Association. Retrieved from http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/857ea9fd. • Institute of Museum and Library Services (2009). Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills (IMLS-2009-NAI-01). Washington, D.C. Retrieved from http://www.imls.gov/assets/1/AssetManager/21stCenturySkills.pdf • Jenkins, H., Clinton, K., Purushotma, R., Robison, A., & Weigel, M. (2006). Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century. Retrieved from http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C- E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF • Jones, C., Ramanau, R., Cross, S., & Healing, G. (2010). Net generation or Digital Natives: Is there a distinct new generation entering university? Computers & Education, 54(3), 722– 732. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2009.09.022 • Lippincott, J. K. (2007). Student Content Creators: Convergence of Literacies. EDUCAUSE Review, 42(6), 16–17. • Margaryan, A., Littlejohn, A., & Vojt, G. (2011). Are digital natives a myth or reality ? University students ’ use of digital technologies. Computers & Education, 56(2), 429–440. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2010.09.004 • Pita, K. (2012). Five Generations in the Workplace. Fairfield County Business Journal, 48(8), 27. • Prenksy, M. (2001), “Digital natives, digital immigrants”, On the Horizon, Vol. 9 No. 5, pp. 1- 6.
- 66. References • Rheingold, H. (2012). Net smart: How to thrive online. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. • Richtel, M. (2012, May 29). Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era. New York Times Online. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/us/new-digital-divide- seen-in-wasting-time-online.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all) • Saveri, A., Rheingold, H., & Vian, K. (2005). Technologies of cooperation. Palo Alto CA. Retrieved from http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/Technology_of_cooperation.pdf • Selwyn, N. (2009). The digital native – myth and reality. Aslib Proceedings, 61(4), 364– 379. doi:10.1108/00012530910973776 • The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. (2009). Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age. Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute. • Thoman, E., Jolls, T., & Center for Media Literacy. (2008).Literacy for the 21st century: An overview and orientation guide to media literacy education. Santa Monica, CA: Center for Media Literacy. • Usdan, J. (2012, July 23). FCC Chairman Announces Jobs-Focused Digital Literacy Partnership Between Connect2Compete and the 2,800 American Job Centers. Broadband.gov. Retrieved from http://blog.broadband.gov/?entryId=1718810 • Zickuhr, K. (2010). Generations 2010. Washington, D.C: Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project.
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Editor's Notes
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