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But it’s not just the vast amount of information that makes research difficult — and librarians essential — today. Commercial search engines often complicate the process of finding balanced information. In an age w

Australian parents have spent up big equipping their kids with the latest gadgets ahead of the new school year but many have failed to equip them with cyber-skills new Telstra research has revealed. More than a third of Australian parents surveyed with children aged 10 to 17 will send a child to school this year with both a laptop computer and a mobile phone. The research, however, revealed that many of these parents haven’t set aside time to talk to their kids about cyber-safety issues such as protecting their privacy and managing approaches from cyber-bullies.

By blocking students from the digital world, the jobs of administrators and educators are made easier, but if people became teachers, education leaders or parents because it was easy, they’ve selected the wrong profession.

Establishing a purposeful online identity of which one can be proud is an important skill to teach students.

Anyone can begin making a difference and contributing real work at any age.

the work we create and publish is assessed by the value it brings to the people who read it, reply to it, and remix it

transliteracy is potentially a unifying concept for what it means to be literate in the digital age extends transliteracy in 21st century to include multiple discourses, communication platforms and tools calls for change of perspective away from battles over print / digital, moves instead towards unifying ecology of media / all literacies relevant to reading, writing, interaction and culture, both past and present not intended to replace other terms that refer to print literacy; encompasses both media and digital literacy and (media) convergence not just computer–based materials, but all communication types across time and culture emphasizes lateral approach to historical, contextual and cultural issues / literacies; bridges and connects past, present and future modalities situated in a liminal space between being a new cognitive tool and the recovery of an old one refuses to presuppose any kind of offline/online divide considers ability to understand multiple media and modes of communication and kinds of literacy we apply online