Qualities and Criteria for Evaluating Digital Design Literacy in Education 2020, Aarhus University, Denmark

The Graduate School at Arts, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, in collaboration with Villum Foundation, invites applications for a fully-funded PhD scholarship/fellowship in Qualities and Criteria for Evaluating Digital Design Literacy in Education (CC) provided the necessary funding is available. This PhD scholarship/fellowship is available as of 1 August 2020 for a period of up to three years (5+3) and of up to four years (4+4). The candidate who is awarded the scholarship/fellowship must commence his/her PhD degree programme on 1 August 2020. 

The PhD scholarship/fellowship will be financed by the 2 parties.

The PhD scholarship/fellowship is advertised within the field of Qualities and Criteria for Evaluating Digital Design Literacy in Education (CC).

This project develops a qualitative understanding of the state-of-the-actual in terms of students’ use, experiences and understandings of everyday digital technologies and their ability to deploy more advanced technologies as a means to proactively engage in the design of digital artefacts. The project will produce a taxonomy for students’ digital design literacy both in relation to understanding existing digital technologies and engaging in the design of future digital technologies, and deliver a conceptual model for educators to evaluate students’ digital literacy as part of curriculum-based education. The ideal candidate has a background in digital design, child-computer interaction, participatory design, design research in the area of emerging technologies, with the ability to conduct empirical and intervention-based research.
 
Research questions: 

• Which competencies supports children’s ’digital design literacy’?
• What are the evaluation criteria that applies to digital design literacy with emerging technologies?
• How is digital design literacy supported in a progressive development through educational levels?

The PhD project is part of the research project Computational Empowerment for Emerging Technologies in Education (CEED). CEED is a 4-year research project exploring and building new practices of computational empowerment for emerging technologies in Danish secondary education. CEED addresses the core question: How do we empower coming generations to understand the complexity and impact of digital technology and become co-creators of our future digitalised society?

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