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Call for Proposals
#DLFTeach Toolkit Volume 4: Critical Digital Literacy
Toolkit Volume 4 Proposal Submission Form
Proposals are due by September 15, 2023
The DLF Digital Library Pedagogy group (aka #DLFteach) invites contributions to Volume 4 of the #DLFteach Toolkit, an open access resource providing peer-reviewed lesson plans and concrete instructional strategies.
Volume 4 of the #DLFteach Toolkit will be a resource for information professionals and faculty partners who wish to engage critical digital literacy concepts in their teaching. It will include adaptable lesson plans and learning objects that help learners develop the skills necessary to consume and create information in a digital landscape, as well as the habits of mind necessary to understand and critique information systems and their underlying power structures. By encouraging both skills-based outcomes and contextual thinking, Volume 4 of the Toolkit will make learners aware of the inequities and structural biases of many digital tools, and help them enact alternative approaches.
The theme of critical digital literacy is intentionally broad in scope. Potential topics addressing this theme could include:
Data justice, data feminism, or other areas of critical data literacy
Understanding, using, and critiquing tools powered by generative AI
Media literacy, including the systemic underpinnings of mis- and disinformation
Algorithmic literacy, especially topics related to surveillance capitalism and algorithmic injustice
Issues of equity and inclusion in digital humanities projects
Access to digital tools as impacted by ability diversity, systemic racism, and/or the digital divide
Discipline-specific examples of critical digital literacy (Submissions from visual arts and humanities fields are especially encouraged!)
We invite submissions to Volume 4 in a variety of formats. These might include lesson plans for in-person or remote synchronous workshops, syllabi for credit-bearing synchronous courses, asynchronous learning objects such as videos and interactive tutorials, or self-paced online courses. We encourage contributors from a range of professional and disciplinary backgrounds. Ideally, submissions should foreground principles of learner-centered design. All accepted submissions will receive feedback from editors and peer reviewers prior to publication, and authors of accepted submissions will be asked to review one other Toolkit submission. Review guidelines will be provided by the editors.
Toolkit Volume 4 Proposal Submission Form
Proposals are due by September 15, 2023
Please direct any questions to the Volume 4 editors: Alexandra Solodkaya ([email protected]), Ashley Peterson ([email protected]), and Mackenzie Salisbury ([email protected])
