Presented at LILAC 2016

1. Vicky Grant @missvagrant
Head of Library Learning Services
Chris Stokes @cwstokes
Director of Digital Learning
University of Sheffield
#LILAC16
Developing a collaborative vision,
strategy and offer for information and
digital literacy in your institution
© The University of Sheffield

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Greetings from
Sheffield University Library
via Deakin University Library
Deakin University Library (2014) Developing an understanding of digital literacy [online], available:
http://air.deakin.edu.au/public/media/Digital+Literacy+/0_bfyyl126 [accessed 08 March 2016].
Image used with the permission of Deakin University Library

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What is information
and digital literacy?
Belshaw, D. (2012) The essential elements of digital literacies: Doug Belshaw at TEDxWarwick [online],
available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yQPoTcZ78 [accessed 08 March 2016].
Image used with the author’s permisssion

4. Our information and
digital literacy away day
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Lego metaphors!

6. Models for digital literacy
from JISC
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Image by JISC reproduced under the CC BY-NC-ND licence
JISC (2014) Developing digital literacies [online], available: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/full-guide/developing-digital-
literacies [accessed 08 March 2016].

7. Models for digital literacy
from JISC
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Image by JISC reproduced under the CC BY-NC-ND licence
JISC (2015) Developing students’ digital literacy [online], available: https://jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-
students-digital-literacy [accessed 08 March 2016].

8. Meetings developed through
the 4D model of Appreciative Inquiry
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Cooperrider, D. L., Whitney, D. K. and Stavros, J. M. (2008) Appreciative inquiry handbook : for leaders of change, 2nd ed.,
Brunswick: Crown Custom Pub.

9. Our vision statement
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Our inspirational libraries blend digital tools with
information literacies, creating outstanding sites of
transformative learning for academia, employment and
for active citizenship.
Information and digital literacy group
The University of Sheffield Library

10. To be effective …
know your organisation
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11. Storying Sheffield, Living Library,
Knowing as Healing
‘inging’ our learning: to focus on the process
rather than the product
Inging
“The process of adding the suffix "ing" to a word (noun, adjective, verb,
etc.) to make it into a verb in present continuous tense” (theFallingJack,
2010).
theFallingJack (2010) Inging. Urban Dictionary [online], available: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=inging [accessed 08 March
2016].
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12. “The world is not finished. It is always in the
process of becoming.”
Paulo Freire
Freire, P. (1998). Pedagogy of freedom : ethics, democracy and civic courage (Critical perspectives series). Lanham, Md. ; Oxford: Rowman &
Littlefield.
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13. To be successful …
know your learners
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Student Ambassadors for
Learning and Teaching

14. Finding
Information
Evaluating
information
Managing
information
Creating
information
Communicating
information
Defining
literacies:
the what
and the
why
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Researching
Employability
Identity
Citizenship
Wellbeing
Freedom
Learning

15. From information literacy to information and digital
literacies: intersecting our offer (two examples)
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Managing
information
EndNote
Zotero
RefMe
Mendeley
Creating
information
iMovie
Popplet
Google
cardboard

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16Embedding the offer into the
institutional strategy

17. Learning and teaching strategy (1)
• Currently developing a new
strategy, with digital being a
strong theme
• Requirement that I&DL is
embedded for students and
staff
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18. Learning and teaching strategy (2)
• Requires collaboration in
curriculum design
• Support in aspects of platform,
tools, infrastructure, networks
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19. Directors of Digital Learning (1)
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20. Directors of Digital Learning (2)
• New academic posts – cross cutting,
with remit to make ‘step change’ in
digital learning
• Bringing together cognate teams for
strategic activity – Library, MOOCs,
TEL, Enterprise, Student Support, and
others
• Fresh methods to define the new
approach: Hack Days, Retreats,
provocative seminars, visiting experts
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21. Digital Commons
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in the Information Commons

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Provocation, Inspiration,
Collaboration
The Digital Commons
The University of Sheffield

23. To
Discover
And
Understand.

24. Activity: digital tools for knowledge
creation
In pairs collaboratively discuss mobile apps / digital tools that might be used by students
when they are creating information.
Can you think of a digital tool for students to use if they are creating:
A film
A poem
An app
An artefact
A written report
A presentation
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25. Background: your library has focused its attention over recent years on supporting
students in finding information. You notice though that students are less inclined to be
passive consumers of information these days. You think about Belshaw’s expression “a
generation of web makers” (2012) and are interested in embracing the creativity which is
increasingly taking place in the library.
The task: In groups collaboratively design an information and digital literacy workshop to
support ‘the generation of makers’. Think more broadly than web makers; this might
involve students/ learners writing a poem, a story, scripting a film or creating an artefact.
Perhaps they are writing a traditional academic report or a presentation. Perhaps they
will develop an app. Use your imagination! How will this activity be enhanced by the use
of a digital tool?
The lesson plan: Using the sheets, pens and post-it notes provided, (or a package like
Trello) create a lesson plan capturing:
• An engaging title
• The aim of the workshop indicating the intersection between the information literacy
and the digital tool
• A timed lesson plan incorporating a range of activities/ delivery styles
• The mobile app(s) or digital tool(s) which will be used
Activity: creating a lesson plan
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