Notes for my closing keynote to the June 1, 2017 virtual conference on digital literacy and fake news.
http://www.library20.com/page/library-2-017-digital-literacy-fake-news
3. What is digital literacy now?
• Media literacy ->information
literacy ->DL
• Technical, social, and personal
capacities
• Learners as social, participatory
makers
4. From user to prosumer
Students as
IP holders
Storytelling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6yVCgoBn-I
10. We’re not sustainable
What happens when these forces combine?
• Environmental stresses trigger political
unrest
• Political unrest meets tottering leadership
• Distrust and friction escalate
• Repeat, reiterate: vicious cycle
11. “The middle of the
20th Century, from
here up to about
2070, 2075… it’s
old people, in big
cities, afraid of
the sky.” -Bruce Sterling, 2014
18. The Chan Zuckerberg Inititative: Meta
Meta… hopes, by bending artificial
intelligence to the task, to identify important
papers from the 2m or so produced every
year. The firm’s computers have attempted
to recognise features of widely cited papers
that contributed to their success. Sam
Molyneux, Meta’s boss, claims that as a
result the firm’s software can now predict
the impact of newly published work.
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21719441-alternative-metrics-
extend-concept-citation-beyond-journal
The demand for digital literacy increases, especially as digital technology continues to reshape our lives and with the new panic about fake news; we may start thinking of learners as creators.
This chart is based on Doug Belshaw’s excellent work.
We should not be surprised by chaos and uncertainty, especially as our technologically-empowered students react to this emerging world and try to improve their lives, using the tools we teach them. Expect both creativity and insurgency.
After a crash in the 1990s virtual reality has returned and blossomed. We are using it for visualization, for storytelling, and, curiously, for some badly needed empathy.