COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CURRENT LITERACIES AND MEDIA

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EBT 6006 CURRENT LITERACIES AND MEDIA ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Educational Technologies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Educational Technologies

Course Objective

In purpose of this course, students will absorb the basic concepts of digital transformation and digital culture, analyse the role of reflective and critical thinking in digital environments, create the framework for the purpose of development digital citizenship, development digital and media literacy skills.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand the influence of digital transformation and digital culture.
2   Absorb the importance of reflective and critical thinking in digital environments.
3   Analyse the important components of development digital citizenship.
4   Improve the comprehension related to digital literacy and media literacy.
5   Develop digital literacy and media literacy skills.
6   Evaluate the development digital and media literacy skills.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Digital Transformation
2 Digital Culture
3 Reflective Thinking
4 Critical Thinking
5 Digital Citizenship
6 Digital Identity
7 Mid-term exam
8 Digital Life Styles
9 Digital Literacy
10 Media Literacy
11 Digital Literacy and Media Literacy Frameworks
12 Digital Literacy and Media Literacy Skills
13 Development of Digital Literacy and Media Literacy
14 Evaluation Methods for Digital Literacy
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Deuze, M. (2006). Participation, remediation, bricolage: Considering principal components of a digital culture. The information society, 22(2), 63-75.

Buckingham, D. (2013). Beyond technology: Children's learning in the age of digital culture. John Wiley & Sons.

King, P. M., & Kitchener, K. S. (1994). Developing Reflective Judgment: Understanding and Promoting Intellectual Growth and Critical Thinking in Adolescents and Adults. Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series and Jossey-Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series. Jossey-Bass, 350 Sansome Street, San Francisco, CA 94104-1310.

Rodgers, C. (2002). Defining reflection: Another look at John Dewey and reflective thinking. Teachers college record, 104(4), 842-866.

Paul, R. W., & Binker, A. J. A. (1990). Critical thinking: What every person needs to survive in a rapidly changing world. Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928.

Norris, S. P., & Ennis, R. H. (1989). Evaluating Critical Thinking. The Practitioners' Guide to Teaching Thinking Series. Critical Thinking Press and Software, Box 448, Pacific Grove, CA 93950-0448; tele.

Mossberger, K., Tolbert, C. J., & McNeal, R. S. (2007). Digital citizenship: The Internet, society, and participation. MIt Press.

Ribble, M. S., Bailey, G. D., & Ross, T. W. (2004). Digital Citizenship: Addressing Appropriate Technology Behavior. Learning & Leading with Technology, 32(1), 6.

Shelley, M., Thrane, L., Shulman, S., Lang, E., Beisser, S., Larson, T., & Mutiti, J. (2004). Digital citizenship parameters of the digital divide. Social Science Computer Review, 22(2), 256-269.

Buckingham, D. (Ed.). (2008). Youth, identity, and digital media (pp. 119-142). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Lankshear, C., & Knobel, M. (2008). Digital literacies: Concepts, policies and practices (Vol. 30). Peter Lang.

Eshet-Alkalai, Y. (2004). Digital literacy: A conceptual framework for survival skills in the digital era. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia,13(1), 93.

Baran, S. J. (2009). Introduction to mass communication: Media literacy and culture.

Potter, W. J. (2013). Media literacy. Sage Publications.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Question response, case study, brainstorming, group work, review-discuss the sample applications, report preparation and presentation.

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr.Ercan AKPINAR
ercan.akpinar@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 6 78
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing report 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 181

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.154455455
LO.244545544
LO.345554455
LO.455444555
LO.544554444
LO.655445455