Educating the Dragon » digital_literacy http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org A learning journey with no fixed abode Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:25:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Digital Literacy v Literacy http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/2009/06/03/digital-literacy-v-literacy/ http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/2009/06/03/digital-literacy-v-literacy/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:07:26 +0000 Dragon09 http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/2009/06/03/digital-literacy-v-literacy/ http://www.creativityatwork.com/articlesContent/aphek/image001.png 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!

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/79673640/sizes/o/ 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’?
However I did com across a slideshare by Dr Tabetha Newman who quoted Allan Martin and suggested it as being one of the most broad, flexible but still tangible definitions out there.
“The awareness, attitude and ability of individuals to appropriately use digital tools and facilities to identify, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, analyse and synthesise digital resources, construct new knowledge, create media expressions, and communicate with others, in the context of specific life situations, in order to enable constructive social action; and to reflect upon this process”
Hardly a bumper sticker so question being:
Can you come up with a better definition? In less than 55 words?

]]> http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/2009/05/19/so-what-is-digital-literacy/feed/ 2 Considering Digital Literacy http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/2009/04/15/considering-digital-literacy/ http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/2009/04/15/considering-digital-literacy/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:42:14 +0000 Dragon09 http://educatingthedragon.edublogs.org/2009/04/15/considering-digital-literacy/ As I begin my first search into "What is Digital Literacy?" I come across this slideshare. Wish there was some audio with it. But is appears to be quite a sound place to begin my journey…. right up-to-date.

Digital Literacy literature review: from terminology to action

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