Since 2021, the TLIT4U project has been implemented by ULSIT (Bulgaria), UNIPR (Italy), ULAPLAND (Finland) and FPM (Italy). The project highlights the need to improve students’ multiple literacy skills and develop a curriculum integrating a STE(A)M approach and using serious games. The numerous definitions of Digital Fluency – DF (Demir, 2015; Ross, 2015) often overlap with definitions of IL, digital competencies and even multimodality. Sparrow (2018) defines 5 skills essential for students with regard to fluency. The paper presents the results of the survey on DF carried out in the first phase of TLT4U and the focus group with students using Design thinking (DT) method realized in the second phase of the project.
Methodology
The research questions of the survey during the first phase were: How do students rate their digital fluency and what do teachers think about the difficulty of integrating digital fluency skills into their curricula? In order to investigate students’ perceptions and skills, the project team organized a workshop and presented the concepts of transliteracy, STEM and DF to trainees from the partner universities in IT, BG and FI. After an analysis of the students’ needs, in the second phase the partners involved students in the design of a curriculum to obtain DF skills applying the DT method.
Findings
The perceptions of students and teachers on DF and Digital literacy skills were analyzed and further activities with students were planned towards the design of a DF curriculum. The learning objectives set by students, the proposed learning activities and assessment methods were matched with the criteria of interdisciplinarity and employability. The outcomes of a relevant curriculum were specified and a syllabus was developed by the students using the DT method and the peer assessment approach. The project will use these results to prepare a model curriculum and promote an active learning based on Inquiry based and STEAM education.
References
- Demir, K., Aydin, B., Ersoy, N. S., Kelek, A., Tatar, I., Kuzu, A., & Odebasi, H. F. (2015). Visiting digital fluency for preservice teachers in Turkey. World Journal on Educational Technology, 7(1).
- Ross, P. (2015). Digital fluency, social enterprise and why they are important for HR. Huffpost Business.
- Sparrow, J. (2018). Digital fluency: Preparing students to create big, bold problems. Educause review.
Marina Encheva1, Anna Maria Tammaro2, Marcela Borisova1, Giulia Conti2, Mari Maasita3
1University of Library Studies and Information Technology, Sofia, Bulgaria; 2Università di Parma, Italy; 3University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
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