In this episode, I talk to Doug Belshaw, co-founder of We Are Open cooperative, an old friend and sometime sparring partner – I’m sure he won’t mind me saying that. And if you’re here for the AI, we dig into large language models, the need for playful as well as critical spaces, and current AI literacy projects, all in the second half. In the first half we revisit some older ground, discussing the various digital literacy frameworks we’ve been involved with and whether they are still relevant. By way of Walter Ong on literacy and William Empson on ambiguity we come around to whether AI literacy is a useful term. No, we don’t have any simple solutions and yes, we do disagree about several things, hopefully in an interesting way. As always there are lots of references in the show notes below.
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Digital literacy stuff we mention:
Doug’s ‘open thinkering’ blog: https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/
Doug’s book about his digital literacy framework: https://dougbelshaw.com/essential-elements-book.pdf
Jisc Digital Capabilities framework: https://digitalcapability.jisc.ac.uk/what-is-digital-capability/individual-digital-capabilities/our-digital-capabilities-framework/
Knobel and Lankshear: the ‘new’ literacies https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-2/knobel-and-lankshear-on-the-new-literacies
Kahn and Kellner: Reconstructing Techno-literacies: https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/technoliteracy.pdf
DigCompEdu (Digital Competence Framework for Educators): https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digcompedu_en
PISA 2029 Media and AI Literacy assessment: https://www.oecd.org/en/about/projects/pisa-2029-media-and-artificial-intelligence-literacy.html
Angela Gunder and team: AI literacies: https://aiopeneducation.pubpub.org/pub/fmktz5d3/release/4
Other stuff we mention:
Danah Boyd context collapse: https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/12/08/coining-context-collapse.html
William Empson 7 types of ambiguity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity
Richard Rorty on dead metaphors: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v08/n07/richard-rorty/the-contingency-of-language
Walter Ong Orality and Literacy: https://monoskop.org/images/d/db/Ong_Walter_J_Orality_and_Literacy_2nd_ed.pdf
Walter Ong on secondary orality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_orality
Richard Seymour Twittering machine: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2505-the-twittering-machine
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