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Jessica Raeside

How to Infuse Digital Literacy Throughout the Curriculum - 6 views

  • Digital literacy is defined as “the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate, and create information using a range of digital technologies.”
  • and this is especially true in schools subject to state and federal testing. Content becomes king. However, there are ways that schools can adapt these skills into existing structures – integrating them into their current pedagogical framework
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  • to deal with the glut of content that confronts them when they google a research topic.
  • only “traditional” methods and materials, but digital ones as well. We need to ensure that they know how to evaluate a website, a blog post, a tweet, a Facebook entry. These evaluative skills transfer cross curricularly and prepare students for the broader world of online communication.
  • Effectively engaging online requires a myriad of skills that we strive to foster in school – effective written communication, brevity and civility
  • These components are often highlighted in Digital Citizenship programs, but in tradition-bound K12 education, we often deride social media as trite or ineffective.
Jennie Bales

Facts About Dihydrogen Monoxide - 3 views

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    "Frequently Asked Questions About Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)"
murphyhaste

Curriculum & Leadership Journal | Digital participation, digital literacy and schools - 5 views

  • Digital literacy refers to the skills, knowledge and understanding required to use new technology and media to create and share meaning.
  • involves the functional skills of reading and writing digital texts, for example being able to 'read' a website by navigating through hyperlinks and 'writing' by uploading digital photos to a social network
  • how particular communication technologies affect the meanings they convey, and the ability to analyse and evaluate the knowledge available on the web.
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  • he literacy needed to engage with the digital environment takes in an integrated repertoire of skills, knowledge and understanding
  • espite substantial investment in ICT for school education, issues relating to the quantity, quality and use of technology remain, and have implications for the integration of ICT into the curriculum. Issues include establishing reliable internet connections
  • olicies and procedures regarding ICT, and the physical organisation of computers, may also need to be reconsidered
  • ntegrating knowledge of digital technology with the development of subject knowledge is likely to require altered pedagogical techniques, as well as the development of different knowledge, outlooks and skill sets in teachers. However, there are wide variations in the confidence
  • By developing the digital literacy of learners through the curriculum, educators are able to contribute to enhancing learners' potential for participation in digital media. This means enhancing young people's ability to use digital media in ways that strengthen their skills, knowledge and understanding as learners, and that heighten their capacities for social, cultural, civic and economic participation in everyday life
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    Digital literacy refers to the skills, knowledge and understanding required to use new technology and media to create and share meaning. This week's article is adapted from the British report Digital participation, digital literacy, and school subjects: a review of the policies, literature and evidence , published by the Futurelab organisation . The article discusses students' current levels of digital literacy; literacy as it relates to information and the media; the relevance of multiliteracies and critical literacy; issues surrounding the use of technology in schools; and professional development requirements for educators.
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