Episode 046 - Julia Feerrar

In this episode, we hear from Julia Feerrar, head of digital initiatives at the Virginia Tech Libraries. She speaks with producer Melissa Mallon about a framework for digital literacy that she helped develop, a framework that includes a variety of competencies, from discovery and evaluation, to communication and creation, to identity and wellbeing. Julia and Melissa discuss the development of the framework, the cross-campus connections enabled by the digital literacy work, and what’s next for digital literacy at Virginia Tech. Links • Julia Feerar on Twitter, https://twitter.com/JuliaFeerrar • Virginia Tech’s digital literacy framework, https://lib.vt.edu/research-learning/digital-literacy.html • The Jisc framework, https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-students-digital-literacy • Digital Pedagogy Lab, https://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/about/ • NewsWise module on fake news, featuring Mike Caulfield, http://newswise.ca/module/fakenews/