When it comes to traditional literacy we have thousands of years of experience to draw on and thousands of generations of literates to learn from. T

Other than in the area of basic computer and Internet skills it is difficult to find agreement on exactly what digital literacy is or what needs to be learned simply because it is so heavily contextual and changing so rapidly. If textual were evolving as fast digital we would need a new grammar book each week.

Increasingly, institutions are seeing their students not only as consumers but also as creators of digital media--requiring a greater fluency in the use of new media tools.

It used to be necessary to learn how to type so that you could write your papers and use Microsoft Word…. Now, we teach [students] the technical foundation of the media-creation tools and then build upon that." --

incredible data visualization capabilities. jQuery Visualize (Part 1) Google Charts (Part 1) Highcharts (Part 1) Simile Exhibit JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit D3.js

so many open-source data visualization projects and the list is growing every day

Having students become media literate across school subjects has been talked about since the early 1960s but has hardly made a dent in lessons that most teachers teach

Geller encouraged the students to look at Wikipedia, but skeptically

You should not always trust the first thing you see!”

Visual Literacy, “a person’s ability to interpret and create visual information—to understand images of all kinds and use them to communicate more effectively,

efines visual literacy as “a learned skill, not an intuitive one. It doesn’t just happen. O

When we teach for visual literacy, we involve children in thinking about and expressing in images what is often beyond linguistic capabilities

One of the issues I still cannot get answered is whether “elearning” on tablets should be “mlearning

easiest way to answer this question would be to say Yes

Mobile and by extension mobile learning is about a new mindset, a new attitude, is almost about unlearning everything we know, and inventing new ways of doing things and having fun along the way.

Human teachers and tutors are susceptible to what cognitive scientists call the “expert blind spot” — once we’ve mastered a body of knowledge, it’s hard to imagine what novices don’t know — but computers have no such mental block.

A computer never gets impatient or annoyed. But it never gets excited or enthusiastic either.

SSISTments and other computerized tutoring systems have focused primarily on math, a subject suited to computers’ binary language.