The document discusses the importance of openness in digital literacy. It notes that we are increasingly living in an open and participatory culture with low barriers to expression and civic engagement. However, it questions if we are ready for such a society and looks more deeply at whether people can manage multiple digital identities, personal data, find and remix open content, and deal with ethical issues. It analyzes different digital literacy frameworks and concludes that more emphasis needs to be placed on openness, including operational, sociocultural and critical dimensions. The next steps involve identifying additional skills needed for an open participatory society by further examining frameworks and the relationship between social practices and skills.

1. The importance of Openness
within Digital Literacy
EDEN Conference 2017
Fabio Nascimbeni
UNIR iTED

2. Open and participatory cultures
We are increasingly living immersed in an open and participatory
culture, with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic
engagement, with support for creating and sharing one’s
creations, and with informal mentorship dynamics whereby the
most experienced are helping novices
The potential benefits of these forms of open and participatory culture
include opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, a changed attitude
toward intellectual property, the diversification of cultural
expression, the development of skills valued in the modern
workplace, and a more empowered conception of citizenship.
(Jenkins 2006)

3. Are we ready for such a society?
- We can read and write
- We can use a PC or a Smartphone
- We can search the web
- We manage our bank, travel,
communication through the web
- We can share our political opinion
(or more often our lunch or cat)

4. Looking deeper
Can we manage a multiple digital identity?
Can we manage our personal data?
Can we deconstruct, question and challenge media content?
Can we deal with ethical and privacy issues?
Can we find, remix and curate open content (with the appropriate
licenses)?

5. Losing your job because of FB
http://www.flickr.com/photos/editor/71486347/

6. Fully understand media

7. Actual participation (& influence)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html

8. Literacies
Traditional Literacy
Digital Literacy
Transmedia Literacy
New Literacies
21st Century Skills
Web Literacy
Media Literacy
New Media Literacy
www.eli-net.eu

9. Digital Literacy Frameworks
• Holistic understanding of DL
• Promoting active citizenship
• Weak on openness

10. Digital Literacy for Educators: DigComp
(JRC, 2017)

11. First conclusions
Progress is being made towards an holistic understanding of DL
We need more openness within DL frameworks, along three
dimensions:
• Operational dimension
• Sociocultural dimension
• Critical dimension

12. Next phases
Identifying the (additional) skills we need to learn and work & play in
Open and Participatory Society, looking at:
Deepening the analysis of the the DigCompEdu Framework
Exploring the New Media Literacy frameworks
Work on the relation between social practices and skills
Open and
multiple
identity
Personal
data
Open
content &
Open
Licenses
Collective
Intelligence
Question
and
challenge
media
content
Ethical and
privacy
issues

13. Fabio Nascimbeni
fabio.nascimbeni@unir.net
This is a new research line within a brand new Institute of a rather new
university: we are open to partners, experts, pilots!