In the context of misinformation, AI and the epistemic crisis, digital literacy has become a shared theme for both open source investigation practitioners, who work with online data, and educators who work with youth. This workshop aims to discuss digital literacy interventions, departing not from what young people should know, but by asking: how do they know, what is the value of their methods of knowing, and what can educators learn about (teaching) digital literacy?

This workshop aims to bridge insights from three fields:

• Open source investigators who work on analyzing data and methods for verification, and who build on online and collaborative methods of learning
• Scholars that focus on how young people learn online, outside of educational institutions
• Educators that work on digital literacy interventions in schools.

Preliminary Agenda

Note that the exact time slots of the panels may still change, and that opening keynote will be online. The rest of the workshop is in the University Library.

Morning program                                                         

9:30 Doors open

10:00 Opening

10:05 – 11:00 Online Keynote by Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat.                                             

11:00 – 12:30 Panel OSI and online learning communities

This panel brings together experts on OSI and education in the UK, OSI and Community-Engaged Learning, and Platform Pedagogies. Format: presentations of 15 minutes, followed by a discussion.

With: Natalie Martin (University of Nottingham), Brianne McGonigle (Open-Source Global Justice Investigations Lab, University of Utrecht), and Zowi Vermeire (Radboud University).

12:30 – 13:30 lunch break

Afternoon program: Building Bridges

13:30 – 16:15

The second half of the day consists of a more interactive discussion format and focuses on:

1) Bridging online learning and the educational sector: can insights into platform pedagogies make critical data literacy programs look different?                                     

2) Bridging OSI and the educational sector: How to make OSI relevant for young people’s concerns?

Confirmed participants:

Maria de Haan (Young people’s learning in digital worlds, University of Utrecht), Sanne Hermans (BENEDMO, Nieuws in the klas, Brussels), Meg Kitamura (Center for Critical Computational Studies, Frankfurt, Germany), Harrie van der Meer (Library UvA, Coordinator for Information & Digital Skills; KRITIKOS), Guillen Torres,Lecturer University of Amsterdam; Open Source Specialist, Investigations Lab, Human Rights Center, Berkeley School of Law, and others (tbc).

16:15-16:45 Closure

The event is free but registration is required. Please register via this form.

Coffee is provided. Lunch is provided for the speakers and self-catered for participants from the public.                                                                                                                 

Organizers

Lonneke van der Velden; https://www.uva.nl/profiel/v/e/l.c.vandervelden/l.c.vandervelden.html

Guillen Torres,

Lecturer University of Amsterdam, https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/t/o/g.h.torres/g.h.torres-sepulveda.html

Open Source Specialist, Investigations Lab, Human Rights Center, Berkeley School of Law

https://nl.linkedin.com/in/guillen-torres-164687188