Digitally Literate

🌱🌿🌲 The Expert's Garden

Ian O'Byrne — Cultivator of the foundational frameworks that define digital literacy today.

Co-authored Mozilla Web Literacy Framework • Co-wrote NCTE's Definition of Literacy in Digital Age • 850+ Newsletter Subscribers • 399+ Strategic Analyses Published

This digital garden is the cultivation space where decades of foundational digital literacy expertise grow into the strategic frameworks organizations implement worldwide.

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🚀 Implementation-Ready Frameworks

These are some field-tested and ready for integration into your context. Each framework is supported by resources, training modules, and an implementation roadmap.

📚 Human-in-the-Loop

An understanding of maintaining agency, critical thinking, and ethical reasoning when interacting with AI and digital technologies.
Key components: Requires active cognitive engagement rather than passive consumption of AI inputs and outputs.
Impact: Not just using AI tools effectively, but to remain thoughtful, ethical agents who can shape technology's role in their lives and communities rather than being shaped by it.

⚖️ Educate Empower Advocate

A comprehensive approach to critical pedagogy that transforms traditional educational practices into engines of social justice and democratic participation.
Key components: A roadmap for transforming education from a system that reproduces existing inequalities to one that actively cultivates agents of positive change.
Impact: Technology use that benefits all learners, not just the most resourced.

🌀 AI Illiteracy

Comprehensive framework addressing critical gaps in 21st-century literacy
Key components: AI illiteracy poses significant risks to individual agency, democratic participation, and equitable access to opportunities.
Impact: Addressing AI illiteracy is essential for preparing citizens to participate effectively in an increasingly automated society.

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🎯 Strategic Implementation Areas

Organizations partner with me for transformation in:

🏛️ Institutional AI Literacy

Framework development and implementation for organizational AI integration at scale

🛡️ Information Integrity Systems

Comprehensive approaches to combating misinformation and building institutional resilience

📈 Digital Transformation Strategy

Leadership development and organizational change management for digital evolution

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🗺️ Navigate the Garden

New to digital gardens? This is a living collection of interconnected thinking that grows organically over time. Unlike traditional blogs with final content, you can see how strategic frameworks develop from early insights to organizational implementation.

🌳 Three Growth Stages:

🌱 Seeds — Early ideas and emerging concepts from current challenges
🌿 Plants — Active framework development with growing connections
🌲 Evergreens — Mature, implementation-ready strategic frameworks

Ready to implement? → See 🌲 Evergreens for proven frameworks
See what's developing? → Visit the 🗂️ MOCs (Maps of Content) to explore emerging thinking
Want the full guide? → Digital Garden Guide for complete navigation

🤝 Strategic Inquiry

I offer:

Strategic consulting (single projects or ongoing partnerships)
Professional learning (workshops, keynotes, multi-session series)
Framework adaptation for your unique context

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This digital garden serves as the conservatory where foundational digital literacy expertise meets emerging challenges. The frameworks developed here become the strategic solutions organizations implement worldwide.