Digital Literacy v Literacy
I was able to share some ideas around Digital Literacy with a group from Palmerston North last week.
One of the key ideas being that digital literacy can be separated into different aspects. Far too often focus on "digital literacy" has essentially been Knowledge of digital tools. However digital literacy is far more involved than that just as regular literacy is more than handwriting practise.
Perhaps it is helpful to see the comparisons between the two.
Knowledge of digital tools = Handwriting
Critical thinking (evaluating and contextualising) = ??
Digital Storytelling = Writing/ visual language??
Podcasting = Oral language (Speaking and Listening)
?? = Reading
Social Awareness = ??
Perhaps my analogue goes too far, or rather it may be that digital literacy is far more wide ranging than standard literacy.
Perhaps you could make suggestion as changes and amendments required. Is it missing something? Have I over simplified some aspect.
Time to Educate the Dragon!
HAve you looked also at the ECE exemplars from Book 16 onwards. Other early stages of Literacy including watching and listening to others, playing with the tools, using the tools for meaningful purposes and critiquing/transforming. This has been applied to ece learners but I know I go through this process too.