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COURSE 1: INFORMATION AND DIGITAL LITERACY FOR UNIVERSITY

SUCCESS

W1: Introduction to Information and Digital Literacy

at University
 LEARNING OUTCOMES

• 1. Introduction to Academic Culture, Information & Digital Literacy

– Understand the definition of academic culture
– Understand the definition of information and digital literacy in academic
culture
– Understand the core values & expectations of academic culture
• 2. Survival Skills for University
– Gain insight into key skills for success at university
• 3. Academic Integrity
– Understand the definition and importance of academic integrity
– Demonstrate awareness of ethical issues related to academic integrity
surrounding the access and use of information

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 1. INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC
CULTURE
• Academic knowledge is shaped by our core mission through a shared
understanding in many years. Of the ways to advance the discovery and
sharing of knowledge.
– The contingent nature of knowledge
– The importance of scholarly rigor and the need
– The recognition of knowledge, discovery and sharing
– The recognition of understanding

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 1. INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC
CULTURE
• Academic culture
– The beliefs, core values, and expectations that sharing in an
academic community.
• Independent learning
• Critical thinking
• Inquiry
• Clarity of expression in communicating those facts
• A responsibility for ethical and positive contribution
– Like an onion

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 1. INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC
CULTURE
• Brick's definition of academic culture as the attitudes, values, and
ways of behaving that are shared by a group of people who work or
study in universities.

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 1. INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC
CULTURE
• What are academic culture values?
– Research & inquiry
– Research skills
– Lifelong Learning
– Intellectual autonomy
– Problem solving
– Critical thinking
– Creativity & Innovation
– Information and digital literacy
– Ethical, social & Professional Understanding
– Communication

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 2. INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL
LITERACY
• Information: is your capacity to find, analyze, comprehend, evaluate the
information you come across, whether that's a quick and dirty search on
Google or if you are digging around in academic databases
• Information literacy: is your capacity to take that information that
you've found, work with it in a meaningful way
• Digital literacy: is able to use digital tools to create information,
communicate effectively, to manage your digital identity online, and to
use digital networks to enhance your own learning
– New language and ultimately we all need to be digital natives
– Using smartphones and computer, searching the Internet

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 2. INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL
LITERACY
• Information into academic culture: information is at the core of
defending an argument or making a proposition about how the world
works, whether that's in science or the humanities or whatever your field.
• Information literacy into academic culture: where are you going to
find information to support your point of view? How are you going to
assess that information for reliability? How do you evaluate it to make
sure it's an accurate way of defending what you've got to say?

How do digital literacy and information literacy reflect

in university life and personal life?

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 2. INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL
LITERACY
• Evaluating information for academic purposes involves taking care to select
information that is reliable.
– Authority test (Where does the information come from?) - Who is the author?
Has the author got expertise in the topic? Is the source of information peer-
reviewed?
– Audience test (Who is the audience?) - general / professional / academic
audience
– Transparency test (How is the information verified?) - What evidence is
provided? Where does it come from? -Can data collection and data analysis
be checked?
– Objectivity test (Is the source of information objective?) - What is the purpose
of writing? For scholarly purpose? For advertising?
– Currency test (Is the information up-to-date?)

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 2. INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL
LITERACY

Read the three sources given and apply the 5 tests to evaluate the reliability of
the information. Decide whether you will select any of the texts to write a report
for the following topic: “The internet has fundamentally changed both the nature
and extent of bullying in schools” (Brick, 2012, p. 64-66)

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 2. INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL
LITERACY
• Selecting and organising information
– Selecting information using 4 ‘S’ reading skills (Brick, 2012, p. 81-82)
• Searching (What is it about?) - title, table of contents, description of book
on back cover, abstract, headings, sub-headings, tables, figures
• Skimming (What are the main points?) - introduction, conclusion, topic
sentences
• Selecting (Which information is relevant and useful?)
• Studying
– Organising information:
• Using Matrix (for synthesising ideas)
• Using mind mapping
• Common organisational strategies in academic writing: Problem-
solution, Comparison-contrast, Cause-effect, Classification

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 2. INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL
LITERACY
• Organising information: Using Matrix (for synthesising ideas)

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 2. INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL
LITERACY
• Organising information: Using mind mapping

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 3. SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR UNIVERSITY

• Survival Skills for University

– Study skills
– Time management (Jessa Collings)
– Collaboration (Lecturer Marcella Robertson)
– Keep an open mind (Professor Nick Enfield)
– Questioning (Jessa Collings)
– Noticing (Lecturer Marcella Robertson)

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 4. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Five central values of academic integrity:

• Honesty
• Trust
• Fairness
• Respect
• Responsibility

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 4. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Academic misconduct:
• Plagiarism
• Self-plagiarism (re-submission)
• Cheating
• Fabrication or falsification of data or results
• Facilitation of such actions of another student
A honor code or student code.
The policy or set of rules that govern student behavior.

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