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Bradford Saron

Tech Transformation: Information Literacy, Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship - 1 views

  • To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and has the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.
  • igital literacy is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate and analyze information using digital technology.
  • Digital citizenship refers to the use of these skills to interact with society.
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  • Digital Literacy seems to be very similar: In Wikipedia it starts with a definition that is almost word for word identical to ALA definition of information literacy but adds on three new words:
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    Thoughtful article about how 21st Century literacies interface with 21st citizenship.  
Bradford Saron

Digital Literacies for Writing in Social Media | DMLcentral - 1 views

  • The best way to understand the expectations of a particular medium is to participate in that medium and identify its genre expectations as they emerge.
  • Students need to think of their online data along the dimensions of: * accessibility* searchability* persistence
  • teaching our students about the kairos of digital media, its accessibility and persistence, and the extent to which it is public and private will prepare them not only for the writing situations that they find themselves in now, but also those they will face in the future.
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  •  Digital communication eliminates this physical incompatibility between media: when all media are digital, all media are subject to the affordances of digital communication, most notably effortless copying and sharing.
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    Deeper thinking about communication in a digital age. 
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