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definition in its publication Digital Literacy

To be digitally literate is to have access to a broad range of practices and cultural resources that you are able to apply to digital tools. It is the ability to make and share meaning in different modes and formats; to create, collaborate and communicate effectively and to understand how and when digital technologies can best be used to support these processes.

The challenge is how we as teachers can foster digital literacy in all areas of the school curriculum

it is our responsibility to ensure children are not only confident users but can also make informed decisions about the use of such digital technologies to help them in their learning

How can we ensure that our learners are digitally literate?

We can help children understand their role in the wider community and how they will have an effect on it. What they say becomes incredibly important when you begin to use digital tools to publish their content online for the world to see

Don’t envisage this as how your learners will use digital tools but how they will use their own cognitive tools to do so

In today’s digital world children have a multitude of ways to communicate that are more or less digital variations of those tools 30 years previously.

developing links and strengthening those bonds by fostering projects and interaction is the next step

Go with what the learners suggest, follow up their questions even if it isn’t in your panning

Learners today need to know which tools are the best to communicate the message they want to say, they need to make deliberate and informed choices that recognise what these digital communication tools can do and how best to utilise them.

You want a class of learners that will know which tools will get the job done effectively and which tools will only hold them back

Never before has a learner been presented with so much choice to draw a picture – from pencil and paper to digital pens and paper on a tablet device

owever the creative potential is being held back by teachers who are either not prepared to use these tools in their class due to other ill conceived curriculum pressures or they just don’t know how.

How do we know it is written by the author claiming it to be so? We need to develop critical awareness and thinking

Children cannot go on accepting the first result they receive from a search

Digital Literacy must be developed across every part of the curriculum and not just ICT and our learners must be given the freedom to do so in schools today