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Mapping Of Digital Literacy Skills, Allison Kavanagh
Mapping Of Digital Literacy Skills, Allison Kavanagh
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In 2013 DIT developed a set of graduate attributes known as the “Five E’s”: Engaged, Enterprising, Enquiry based, Effective and Expert in chosen subject discipline. Each of these five attributes is comprised of several additional attributes, one of which is digital literacy.
This presentation explains what digital literacy is, why it is an important attribute for our students and graduates to develop, and discusses practical ways of creating a mapping between a programme’s assessment methods and the digital literacy graduate attribute.
Digital Literacy: Why It Matters, Allison Kavanagh, K.C. O'Rourke
Digital Literacy: Why It Matters, Allison Kavanagh, K.C. O'Rourke
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In the past two decades the internet, email, apps, mobile devices and all associated hardware and software have become firmly embedded in everyday life, to the extent that it often feels that we have had no control over this phenomenon. What are the implications for education?
Primary and secondary students today have grown up with the always-connected life which the internet has enabled. However, the credence given to the idea that this makes them fully comfortable and aware as "digital natives" is misguided. The social implications of the internet society – surveillance and the decline of privacy, cyberbullying and so …
Constructing A Practice Informed Graduate Attributes Toolkit: Built In Not Bolt-On, Jen Harvey, Allison Kavanagh, Dave Kilmartin, Rachel O'Connor, Ciaran O'Leary, K.C. O'Rourke
Constructing A Practice Informed Graduate Attributes Toolkit: Built In Not Bolt-On, Jen Harvey, Allison Kavanagh, Dave Kilmartin, Rachel O'Connor, Ciaran O'Leary, K.C. O'Rourke
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It is generally recognised that Higher Education students should be afforded a range of formal and informal learning opportunities to develop skills, or graduate attributes, that have the potential to enhance their success both in their chosen career choice and as active global citizens. This requires a shared understanding of these graduate attributes among programme team members, students and external stakeholders.
The DIT Graduate Attributes policy (2012) therefore requires that all programmes make explicit an agreed set of graduate attributes intended to be fully integrated within curriculum design, with their development clearly mapped across programmes. To facilitate the sharing of …