Information and digital literacy initiatives

In efforts to improve students' digital literacies on a STEM-focused campus, one university created a digital literacies initiative to support both faculty and students. Faculty development programming supported the development of assignment parameters, detailed assessment rubrics, and scaffolding activities. A campus tutoring center was piloted to support students' acquisition of digital literacies. This chapter offers examples from three faculty members who participated in the digital literacies initiative and implemented digital literacy assignments in their courses. The researchers offer best practices for campuses interested in developing digital literacy initiatives.

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Promoting Political Literacy Among Youth in the Sultanate of Oman

Behavioral-Based Interventions for Improving Public Policies - Advances in Public Policy and Administration ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-2731-3.ch013 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 233-244

Author(s):

Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri ◽

Salim Said AlKindi ◽

Abdullah Khamis Al-Kindi

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Young People ◽

Digital Literacy ◽

Best Practice ◽

Middle Eastern ◽

Youth Unemployment ◽

Literacy Skills ◽

Media Usage ◽

Literacy Initiatives ◽

The Arab Spring

In Oman, as in other countries around the world, young people traditionally have low levels of interest in politics. However, young people have high levels of social media usage, and there is evidence from the literature that new forms of political engagement are emerging through the use of sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. To help ensure that social media can be used effectively to engage citizens in government decision-making process, there is a need to provide young people and other citizens with digital literacy skills. This is especially important in Oman and other Middle Eastern Arab states, where there are currently high levels of youth unemployment, to avoid the type of unrest which occurred in the form of the Arab Spring and instead promote more constructive forms of citizen engagement. The chapter reports on a review of literature which examines these issues in the context of Oman, identifies examples of best practice digital literacy initiatives from other countries, and develops a series of recommendations for Oman.

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Designing a leadership‐based inquiry into community digital literacy initiatives

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology ◽

10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401151 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. 770-772

Author(s):

Kirstin C. Phelps

Keyword(s):

Digital Literacy ◽

Literacy Initiatives

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A Proposed Research Design for Exploring Collective Leadership (CL) within Multi-Team Systems (MTS) implementing digital literacy initiatives

iConference 2016 Proceedings ◽

10.9776/16560 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Kirstin Phelps

Keyword(s):

Research Design ◽

Digital Literacy ◽

Collective Leadership ◽

Literacy Initiatives

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Analisis Materi Pokok Matematika Kelas III MI/SD

el-Ibtidaiy:Journal of Primary Education ◽

10.24014/ejpe.v3i1.9531 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Shindy Lestari

Keyword(s):

Elementary School ◽

Character Education ◽

Subject Matter ◽

Financial Literacy ◽

Digital Literacy ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

School Mathematics ◽

Field Of Study ◽

Elementary School Mathematics ◽

Important Field

Analysis of mathematics subject matter in elementary school is a very important field of study taught at every level of education. The 2013 curriculum separates the field of mathematics studies from themes so that this field of study is a subject that stands alone. Through mathematics subject matter taught in elementary school can train students to think critically, rationally, logically, innovatively so that they have competitiveness. As for the problems discussed from the subject matter in elementary school mathematics which is seen from the suitability of the teacher's book and the student's book, in this case it discusses: 1) the scope of mathematics material grade 3rd elementary school, 2) the characteristics of mathematics subject matter in elementary school, 3) the relevance in elementary school mathematics subject matter to the scientific structure, namely student character, HOTS, 4C skills, literacy numeracy, digital literacy, financial literacy and character education, 4) learning innovation based on integration-interconnection in accordance with the science of development and technology and the needs of the community in the Industrial Revolution Era 4.0.

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