Session Idea: Digital Aliens?

The term “digital native” often does not seem a particularly apt description of contemporary students, implying that they are comfortable or proficient with a variety of digital tools and formats. I’ve often thought that the term is really a polite way of saying something about older generations of faculty and administrators, that our students are comfortable with digital media by comparison. I’d like to hear about what kinds of best practices have been used in liberal arts institutions to develop general faculty and administrative familiarity and proficiency with digital practices and social media–not on the level of “How to Use Moodle” but aiming for the more abstract, intellectual understandings that inform our work with other media and other competencies or skills.