Across the world young people have collaborated on Blogs,
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to bring down entire regimes and force political
change. Not one of them has been on a digital literacy course. And, in any
case, who are these older teachers who know enough about digital literacy to
teach these young people? And how do they teach it – through collaborative,
communication on media using social media – NO. By and large, in educational
institutions, this stuff is shunned, restricted, even banned. We learn digital
literacy by doing, largely outside of academe.