Choose Your Own (Mis)Adventure: Practicing Digital Literacy Skills in the Community College Classroom

Lasher, Meggie

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Choose Your Own (Mis)Adventure: Practicing Digital Literacy Skills in the Community College Classroom

dc.audience	Community College Library
dc.contributor.author	Lasher, Meggie
dc.contributor.department	Horry-Georgetown Technical College
dc.coverage.location	Wampanoag Room
dc.coverage.location	South Carolina
dc.coverage.temporal	2018-05-04T16:30:00-07:00
dc.coverage.temporal	2018-05-04T15:40:00-07:00
dc.date	2023-09-23T19:28:39.000
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-26T08:10:26Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-26T08:10:26Z
dc.date.issued	2018-05-04
dc.description.abstract	The lighting talk will outline the creation process of a digital literacy workshop for a diverse group of learners from scratch. Librarians instructing in a community college setting often work with a diverse student body‑ from different backgrounds and identities to levels of technology and research skills. To help students make the critical thinking leaps between textbook hypotheticals to relevant, real-life digital dilemmas, librarians can act as digital literacy educators and advocates. After teaching introductory library sessions to first-year students, I noticed a variety in the skill, comfort, and knowledge of using a computer in an academic and work setting. This inspired a homegrown, made from scratch approach to create opportunities to practice these digital literacy skills. I developed an original, “choose your own adventure” activity to help students in our first-year experience seminar get a handle on using college-wide resources and apply them to a hypothetical situation. For many students, this activity was the first time they used the college website to do exploratory research about academic programs, advising, transfer partnerships, and careers. The activity also aimed to incorporate information and media literacy skills like synthesizing information from a variety of formats and evaluating sources. In all, students met this digital literacy workshop with several different responses: from frustration and confusion to optimism and zeal. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of digital literacy skills in community colleges, workshopping their instruction sessions, and teaching in an ever-changing environment.
dc.description.abstract	Are you interested in digital literacy education, especially working with diverse students? This lightning talk will outline the highs and lows of developing original content for a digital literacy workshop to help students think critically about college academic resources and technology.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/630
dc.relation.url	https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=acrl_nec_conf&unstamped=1
dc.source.status	published
dc.subject	Teaching and Learning Technology and Tools
dc.subject	digital literacy
dc.subject	community college
dc.subject	Library and Information Science
dc.title	Choose Your Own (Mis)Adventure: Practicing Digital Literacy Skills in the Community College Classroom
dc.type	lightningtalk
dc.type	event
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