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Rhona Sharpe on why Dig Lit is important.

Resources to help you understand your presence online and where and what might be happening to information about you.

Helen Beetham on learner experience including some diglit models.

Incredible visualisation of the power of metadata and our digital footprint / slimetrail.  Zoom in at times to see the level of detail that triangulated phone masts give for location.

Great presentation slides by Catherine Cronin on teaching digital literacies.

Post linking digital literacy to web  and hacking literacy.  Some good points.

It sounds important - haven't read it yet, but it isn't new (2010) " Digital literacy means learning how to work the information and communication technologies in a networked environment, as well as understanding the social, cultural and ethical issues that go along with the use of these technologies. "Full participation in contemporary culture requires not just consuming messages, but also creating and sharing them," writes Hobbs. "To fulfill the promise of digital citizenship, Americans must acquire multimedia communication skills and know how to use these skills to engage in the civic life of their communities.""

Make sure you get each.part.of.the.links!

Josie Fraser talks about her work with Leicester schools to develop digital literacy practices.

Google Forms being used to collect info in phishing scam. Useful for net-safety.

Article on sock-puppetry by an author. Relates to questions of digital identity and trust online.

Doug Belshaw explores the duality (or multiplicity) of digital literacy, of definitions.

"Welcome to a series that examines the process of research. The first few posts will include that important pre-search process. In this series you are sure to find something that will fit any classroom"

Steve Wheeler tells us stuff about DigLit

Ladar Levison describes (see embedded video) something of why he shut his encrypted email service. Most of it is heavily alluded to because of the draconian gagging orders he is under. From a digital literacy perspective I think this is important in helping people consider the access to information that they transmit across the Internet which may be available to others, especially governmental and quasi governmental bodies.

Blog post by Doug Belshaw on mapping elements of web & digital literacies to each other and asking 'Are they the same?'

"NEW DELHI, INDIA: Aimed at promoting digital inclusion across the country, NASSCOM Foundation along with leading IT companies like Google and Intel is organizing the second Digital Literacy Week (DLW) from 9-13 December, 2013."

A digital literacy framework developed for Leicester secondary schools.