Digital Literacy Program Proposal
In the UW course LIS 568: Information Literacy in a Digital Age, I developed a thorough and comprehensive understanding of contemporary literacy programming. This included updated concepts of traditional reading-based literacy, digital applications of information literacy, and the burgeoning field of digital literacy (also referred to as Internet literacy or digital citizenship). As the final project in this course, I was tasked with developing a proposal for an information literacy program to be implemented at a location of my choice. Given my employment at Kentridge High School during this time, I elected to tailor my proposal to the environment of Kentridge’s advisory program. Below you can find both parts of this proposal.
Please note that this project was a thought exercise, and none of the feedback or proposals contained therein were formally presented to members of the Kentridge staff or faculty. I am eternally grateful to KHS for providing me with my first job in the LIS field, and thank them for their contribution to my ongoing academic and professional development.
In part one of this project, I analyzed and critiqued the current digital literacy programming offered at Kentridge. The proffered courses (primarily sourced from Common Sense Media) were compared against the literacy foundations set forth by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), and opportunities for development were formally suggested in a hypothetical letter to an incoming principal.
In part two, the program proposal outlined in part one was expanded upon to show a holistic, four-year timeline for program implementation. In addition to this timeline, an example lesson plan was provided. The plan in question is an introduction to concepts of knowledge dissemination as derived from the AASL. The paper concludes with an approach for critical assessment of the lesson’s student learning objectives.