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!
I know by some peoples standards I’ve not been around education all that long and I’ve certainly been around the edublogosphere a fraction of that time. But I have just reached my 365th post, which must count to something. Regardless I have, as yet failed to find an answer to my question: “What is ‘digital literacy’?