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LSE's live streamed seminar series NetworkED starts next week with the following seminar from Josie Fraser. The seminars are also recorded and made available from the website after the event. To watch the live stream, visit the following page at 5pm on Wednesday (no registration required)
http://lti.lse.ac.uk/events/networkED-seminar-series-18.php
Digital Literacy in Practice: Making Change Happen – Josie Fraser
Date: Wednesday 22nd October 2014 5pm
Josie's talk will focus on the approach and results of the DigiLit Leicester project https://lccdigilit.our.dmu.ac.uk/ a partnership between the Council, De Montfort University, and 23 secondary schools. Over the last two years, the project has developed a shared definition of what digital literacy looks like situated in professional practice, identified strengths and gaps across the city, and been instrumental in developing confidence across Leicester's secondary and specialist education schools workforce.
In September 2013, the project achieved recognition as one of five global winners of the Reclaim Open Learning innovation 2013 competition, organised by the MacArthur Foundation http://www.macfound.org/, The Digital Media and Learning Hub http://dmlhub.net/ , and MIT Media Lab https://www.media.mit.edu/.
Josie will provide an overview of the development of the DigiLit Leicester project, and outline the ways in which the project has engaged and worked with school staff across the city. The key strengths of the project will be outlined: an at-scale, personalised and situated approach to digital literacy; a focus on co-production as a method for individual and organisational development and change; and a commitment to Open Education approaches to support sustainable practice. Findings from the 2014 DigiLit Leicester survey (completed by 701 city staff members) will be discussed.
The talk will be of interest to anyone working to embed the use of technology to support learning, teaching and community development within organisations, and related issues of cultural change.
If people external to LSE would like to attend in person, they should contact LSE IMT Admin [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]:[log in to unmask]>
Dr Jane Secker
Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor, Learning Technology and Innovation, Information Management and Technology, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
Editor, Journal of Information Literacy: http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL
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