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Digital literacy looks beyond functional IT skills to describe a richer set of digital behaviours, practices and identities. What it means to be digitally literate changes over time and across contexts, so digital literacies are essentially a set of academic and professional situated practices supported by diverse and changing technologies.

Thanks Anne for highlighting this resource to our group, it is indeed valuable and ended up as suggested resources for topic 2 on the course site!! best wishes Maria

Welcome to the home page of the IRISS Information Literacy Interactive Tutorial. This tutorial was derived from the Social Services Knowledge Scotland (SSKS) Information Literacy pack. Objective This tutorial will provide you with an understanding of information literacy in six simple steps. Each step includes activities that will help you develop your information literacy skills.

Please use this link instead; http://www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2006/Aharon_Aviram.htm

Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement This article proposes a continuum of 'Visitors' and 'Residents' as a replacement for Prensky's much‐criticised Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Challenging the basic premises upon which Prensky constructed his typology, Visitors and Residents fulfil a similar purpose in mapping individuals' engagement with the Web.

From UNESCO

This Jisc Guide presents the results from the research project 'The Visitors and Residents project'. The research project is the background for the videos "Visitors and Residents" and "Credibility" by David White.

21st Century Fluencies are not about hardware, they are about headware and heartware. Learn how to cultivate these critical skills in yourself and your students.