ASSESSMENT OF DIGITAL LITERACY/TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

Recommended Assessment Categories from ISTE:

• Creativity and Innovation
• Communication and Collaboration
• Research and Information Fluency
• Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
• Digital Citizenship
• Technology Operations and Concepts

Digital Fluency

Digital Fluency is a term that captures critical thinking and communication in an online environment. Technology is requiring our students (and ourselves) to become digitally savvy in critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration skills.

ETS

RESOURCES

Assessing Digital Competencies

Formal Digital Literacy Assessments

http://digitalliteracy.cornell.edu/

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http://www.oregon.gov/ccwd/abe/pdf/computerskillschecklistfinal.pdf

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Reading Comprehension', Theory Into Practice, 50: 2, 107 — 115

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Digital Proficiency - A 2020 Leadership Competency. (2014, January 1). A.J. O'Connor Associates HR Consulting. Retrieved May 13, 2014, from http://www.ajoconnor.com/blog/digital-proficiency-2020-leadership-competency

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students' digital literacy. Education Week. Retrieved May 13, 2014, from http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/25digitalliteracy.h33.html?intc=EW-TC14-TOC

Information fluency model. (2014, January 7). information fluency model. Retrieved May 16, 2014, from https://21cif.com/resources/difcore/

ISTE Standards for Students. (n.d.). ISTE Standards for Students. Retrieved May 14, 2014, from http://www.iste.org/standards/standards-for-students

• SAILS - Standardized Assessment of Digital Literacy Skills https://www.projectsails.org

• TRAILS - Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills http://www.trails-9.org/index.php?page=home

• iSkills Digital Literacy Assessment http://www.ets.org/iskills/about/

• 21st Century Skills Assessment

http://www.learning.com/21st-century-

skills-assessment/

Alternative and Formative Assessments

“One of the biggest things to realize is that it's not always about what the kids know about technology, but their comfort level with what they don't know, and then being able to figure it out using whatever devices are put in front of them."

- William De'Wayne Simpson, Teacher

• Project-based learning

• Provide students a choice to demonstrate their learning in any digital format

• Collaborative online projects

• Use video tools to assess

Use a checklist to assess digital skills

ORMS

There are 3 frameworks of Digital Literacy referred to as Online Research & Media Skills (ORMS):

Online Collaborative Inquiry-

A group of local or global learners who arrive at a common outcome via multiple pathways of knowledge.

Online Content Construction-A process by which students construct and redesign knowledge by actively encoding and decoding meaning through the use of ever shifting multimodal tools.

Online Reading Comprehension- The skills, strategies, practices, and dispositions students need to locate, evaluate, and synthesize information during problem based inquiry tasks.

Doug Belshaw-Ted Talks

Digital Literacy

Web Literacy Lead for the Mozilla Foundation. Enthusiastic about all things related to education, technology and productivity. Lives in Northumberland, England

"Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet."

Cornell University Digital Literacy Resource

Technology Skills and Digital Competencies for 21st Century Learners

The internet has radically changed what being literate means today. Today's digital natives must be able to adapt to the ever changing contexts for literacy and learning.

The many overlapping components of Digital Literacy

“Simply being able to use technology is no longer enough. Today's students need to be able to use technology to analyze, learn and explore.”

- The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®)

Profiles of ISTE Standards for Technology Literate Students: Pre Kindergarten - 12th grade

http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/nets-s-2007-student-profiles-en.pdf?sfvrsn=4

Common Core's Alignment with Technology Skills and Digital Competencies

Common Sense Media provides charts on their website that align the Common Core and other national standards to technology skills and digital competencies.

These charts provide a resource for teachers to better understand the technology skills and digital competencies that 21st century learners need in order to meet the learning objectives of the Common Core.

Digital Proficiency

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/classroom-curriculum/alignment

Digital Proficiency is a measure of how effectively individuals engage with digital technology for both internal and external benefit.

A.J. O'Connor Associates

Digital Competence

Technology is changing and advancing so rapidly that no one could possible master and keep up with the new technologies that evolve almost daily. So how can one become digitally competent?

Lee Crocket, Managing Partner of The 21st Century Fluency Project summarizes digital competence as the ability to ask, acquire, anayze, apply and assess digital information. Key points of digital competence are the ability to ask good relevant questions, filter to distinguish fact from opinion, and identify bias.

The Technology Race

ASSESSMENT OF DIGITAL LITERACY & TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

By Amy, Elizabeth, Gail & Tim