INFORMATION LITERACY : DIGITAL LITERACY: No Place in Class for Digital Illiterates

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INFORMATION LITERACY :

DIGITAL LITERACY:

No Place in Class for Digital Illiterates

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No Place in Class for Digital Illiterates

The notion of literacy has radically changed in the face of technologies
that allow for different forms of expressions and levels of interaction,
which is why teachers must adapt

Gavin Dudeney

Guardian Weekly

Tuesday 6 December 2011 09.00 EST

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/dec/06/teaching-digital-literacy

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So is the digital world so wildly different from the analogue one most of
us grew up in? I sincerely believe it is. To be literate today involves
more than the "three Rs" of reading, writing and arithmetic. It requires
skills to navigate a connected world, a world that is both much smaller
geographically and at the same time much bigger, in pure information
terms, than the one we knew BG (Before Google).

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Take text, as one example. In my youth text was largely confined to the
printed page, in books, magazines and other publications. One couldn't
"touch" text, as one can now with the scalable screen representation of
text on a tablet computer such as an iPad. And one certainly couldn't
interact with text, using it as a starting point for an adventure, a
research project or a conversation with people on the other side of the
globe. Yet hypertext, texting and other types of print literacy are as
common and familiar to the digital generation as picture books were to
mine.

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What of search and information literacy? Few would argue that today the
ability to find information on the internet, and be able to evaluate its
usefulness, veracity and potential application in the classroom, is
perhaps the most vital component of these new literacies.

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Digging further into the digital literacy skillset, we might identify more
social and intercultural literacies. The ubiquity of social networks
demands a new range of skills: looking after one's "digital footprint" is
of paramount importance, both professionally and personally. Knowing what
to share, and who to share it with, is a vital part of this process;
keeping yourself safe and maintaining hierarchical relationships is both
challenging and potentially problematic in a wired world. Learning how to
interact with other cultures and world-views is now a part of everyone's
daily life.

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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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Sincerely,
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