Digital Literacy
Guide for Young Adult Learners at the Fashion Institute of Technology:
This guide is meant to be used as a learning tool for young
college freshman that are entering their first years in a higher learning
setting. Digital literacy is defined as the ability to find, evaluate, utilize,
share and create content using information technologies and the Internet.
(Cornell Information Technologies, 2009, Cornell University) The general
standards for research, writing papers, and plagiarism have changed since high
school. This guide is meant to provide all students with the necessary tools
needed to ensure that they are following instructors directions, meeting
academic expectations as well as providing students with necessary tools needed
for basic researching. While it is easy to copy and paste information from
websites it is not acceptable to do so without citing your references in proper
format. College life in regards to writing papers at FIT will introduce you to
APA format and this literacy guide will teach you what that is and how to
ensure you’re doing it properly. The college has a strict stance on plagiarism,
which you will also find, located in this guide. If there are ever changes to
any policies you can check back to this literacy guide where all information is
current and up to date. The FIT library is available 24/7 at www.fitnyc.edu/library.
Literacy Type Focus Area Objectives
Examples
Tools for Writing Writing How
to write a college Writing Center Level
paper *Appointment must be
Made in advance
Writing Following APA format Purdue Writing Lab
Owl.english.purdue.edu
Writing Citation machine Citation Machine
Automatically
adapts citationmachine.net
To proper
citing format
Writing Code of Conduct regarding www.fitnyc.edu
Plagiarism
Data Literacy Research Forecasting services for -Fashion
Snoops
Fashion
related courses -Doneger
*its best to use more then one -WGSN
source
**FIT online library offers databases
for
all forecasting sites
Research Current events and up-to-date -NRF News
Industry
information Briefs
-Business
of
Fashion
Research Books on numerous topics E-Books
Relating
to fashion and liberal available for
Arts are
available through the review or rent
Online
library Magazines
Visual Literacy Research Preparing
visual aids for projects PowerPoint
Prezi
Videos
for supplemental use YouTube
In
presentations
Develop
or manipulate images Adobe
For
product related courses Photoshop
Tool Literacy
Learning Any guidance
needed for Blackboard
Systems LMS including
tutorials
Digital Conduct
meetings digitally Google
Meetings for team meetings Hangout
Social Media Creative work
for classes or Pinterest
Site Information Projects Blogs
Facebook
Instagram
Citations:
Cornell University Digital
Literacy Resource. What is Digital Literacy? Retrieved from
The Writing Lab & The OWL
at Purdue and Purdue University. Purdue Online Writing Lab. Retrieved from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
Jenn, great job thinking of such a wide variety of media forms. It is so important for students to realize that there is much beyond the traditional five paragraph essay. I like how you incorporate this throughout your guide. It is also essential that you mentioned plagiarism. Many students truly do not understand what it is and end up plagiarizing unintentionally. It is a shame! Anyway, really good job here!
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