I was pleased to spot last night that the NMC has published its second Horizon Project Strategic Brief on Digital Literacy :
a follow-up to its 2016 strategic brief on digital literacy. Commissioned by Adobe, this independent research builds upon the established baseline definitions of digital literacy from the 2016 brief, examining digital literacy through a global and discipline-specific lens to reveal new contexts that are shaping the way learners create, discover, and critically assess digital content.
Now, dear Reader, you may remember when their first one came out last year, it provoked me to have, as they say here in Glasgow “a right good rant“. My rantiness seemed to strike a chord and, as wordpress likes to tell me now and again, got my stats booming. It’s also caught the eye of the folks at NMC who got in touch and we exchanged a few emails about my concerns with the first report.
The second version is much better. It isn’t being driven by products (one of my main concerns about the first report) but by international research and practice. I was particularly pleased to see the work of Helen Beetham and Jisc featuring.
Now I know that my rant wasn’t responsible for this change of heart, but it is always gratifying when one of my (quite frequent) rants actually seems to chime with others and more importantly I can see something tangible a few months later. Just shows that sharing your views does matter and can make a difference.
