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Albert Martinez

Digital literacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • This new era poses major challenges to the flow of news and information people depend on to manage their complex lives. In the context of this report, digital and media literacy is seen as a constellation of life skills that are necessary for full participation in our media-saturated, information-rich society. According to Renee Hobbs, author of the white paper, Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, these include the ability to do the following: Make responsible choices and access information by locating and sharing materials and comprehending information and ideas Analyze messages in a variety of forms by identifying the author, purpose and point of view, and evaluating the quality and credibility of the content Create content in a variety of forms, making use of language, images, sound, and new digital tools and technologies Reflect on one’s own conduct and communication behavior by applying social responsibility and ethical principles Take social action by working individually and collaboratively to share knowledge and solve problems in the family, workplace and community, and by participating as a member of a community Digital and media literacy competencies, which constitute core competencies of citizenship in the digital age, have enormous practical value. Hobbs identifies a 10-point action plan to enable all Americans to acquire digital and media literacy competencies.
  • Digital literacy requires certain skill sets that are interdisciplinary in nature. Warshauer and Matuchniak list information, media, and technology; learning and innovation skills; and life and career skills as the three skill sets that individuals need to master in order to be digitally literate, or the 21st-century skills
  • Eshet-Alkalai contends that there are five types of literacies that are encompassed in the umbrella term that is digital literacy
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  • (1) Photo-visual literacy is the ability to read and deduce information from visuals.
  • (2) Reproduction literacy is the ability to use digital technology to create a new piece of work or combine existing pieces of work together to make it your own.
  • (3) Branching literacy is the ability to successfully navigate in the non-linear medium of digital space.
  • (4) Information literacy is the ability to search, locate, assess and critically evaluate information found on the web.
  • (5) Lastly, socio-emotional literacy refers to the social and emotional aspects of being present online, whether it may be through socializing, and collaborating, or simply consuming content.
  • Schools are continuously updating their curriculum for digital literacy to keep up with accelerating technological developments.
  • These techniques are most effective when the teacher is digitally literate as well.
  • This means that today's educators may struggle to find effective teaching methods for digital natives. Digital immigrants might resist teaching digital literacy because they themselves weren't taught that way. Prensky believes this is a problem because today's students are "a population that speaks an entirely new language"[5] than the people who educate them.
  • Research published in 2012 found that the digital divide, as defined by access to information technology, does not exist amongst youth in the United States.[18] Young people of all races and ethnicities report being connected to the internet at rates of 94-98%.[18] There remains, however, a Civic Opportunity Gap, where youth from poorer families and those attending lower socioeconomic status schools are less likely to encounter opportunities to apply their digital literacies toward civic ends
Albert Martinez

Digital skills of internet natives: Different forms of digital literacy in a random sam... - 0 views

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  • Digital skills of internet natives: Different forms of digital literacy in a random sample of northern Italian high school students
  • main results and methodological challenges of a large-scale survey on actual digital skills
  • A test covering three main dimensions of digital literacy (theoretical, operational and evaluation skills)
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  • sample performed better in operational skills
  • particularly poor performance regarding evaluation skills
  • cultural background has a significant effect, which is stronger on operational skills, while gender shows a more definite impact on theoretical knowledge.
Albert Martinez

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I find your revision of the title much better. Shorter and straight to the point. and I just added this to the diigo group and will be adding it to the doc: "Schools are continuously updating the...

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Albert Martinez

What is Important? Digital Literacy or Literacy in a Digital Environment?: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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  • To become digital literate and to take profit of the power of digital technology in learning, basic literacy is more important than technical competences. The overemphasis on digital software in middle school programs, neglecting basic literacy and critical text analysis skills, might become a negative factor in the use of present powerful data and information resources and explain the sometimes disappointing results of digital learning.
Simora Martin

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? / UCLA N... - 0 views

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  • As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
  • Reading for pleasure, which has declined among young people in recent decades, enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not, Greenfield said.
  • "By using more visual media, students will process information better," she said. "However, most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination — those do not get developed by real-time media such as television or video games. Technology is not a panacea in education, because of the skills that are being lost.
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  • mong the studies Greenfield analyzed was a classroom study showing that students who were given access to the Internet during class and were encouraged to use it during lectures did not process what the speaker said as well as students who did not have Internet access. When students were tested after class lectures, those who did not have Internet access performed better than those who did.
  • Another study Greenfield analyzed found that college students who watched "CNN Headline News" with just the news anchor on screen and without the "news crawl" across the bottom of the screen remembered significantly more facts from the televised broadcast than those who watched it with the distraction of the crawling text and with additional stock market and weather information on the screen.
Albert Martinez

25 Negative Effects of Technology - RooGirl - 2 views

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  • Here are 25 negative effects technology can have:
  • 1. IsolationSocial isolation is characterized by a lack of contact with other people in normal daily living
  • 2. Lack of Social SkillsThe use of online social media outlets causes us to meet face-to-face with much less frequency resulting in a lack of much needed social skills. We lose the ability to read body language and social cues in other people.
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      Abuse of technology use, creating negative unhealthy impacts on social environments and personal lives
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  • isolate ourselves by walking around in our own little world, listening to our iPods or staring at the screen of the latest mobile device even when we are around other people. Studies have shown that people who are socially isolated will live shorter lives.
  • 5. Poor Sleep HabitsSome of the negative effects of technology can be linked to the effect it has on sleep habits. We get sucked into online activities that keep us up too late and the constant stream of information can make it difficult to turn off our brains.
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      Albert Martinez on 10 Apr 14
       
      Poor sleep habits is critically and incredibly vital to keeping sane and healthy. Lack of sleep is a huge factor in crazy behavior. I'll add supporting documentation soon
  • 6. PollutionWith the rapid-changing world of electronics and technology, the turnover rate for upgrades is staggering. This constant stream of out with the old, in with the new is adding to the levels of toxicity in our air and land.
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      Albert Martinez on 10 Apr 14
       
      relating it to properly and responsibly using digital tools.Responsibility and Accountability. 
Simora Martin

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    Edmonton Journal (Alberta) January 22, 2012 Sunday Final Edition A lament for the future of meaningful reading; Why bother with serious books when Angry Birds is a tap away? BYLINE: Brett Josef Grubisic, Vancouver Sun SECTION: SUNDAY READER; Pg. B9 LENGTH: 1036 words Reading the 21st Century Stan Persky McGill Queens University Press 278 pp; $29.95 In an article about the good deeds of E.D. Hirsch, the recently deceased American cultural literacy superstar Christopher Hitchens dropped alarming findings from a nationwide survey: "The chances of a 17-yearold American being able to say anything meaningful about Thomas Jefferson are disconcertingly slight. The chances of the same student knowing anything significant about Poe, or slavery, or of being able to translate the most elementary Latin . or even being able to define the word 'ironic' are slighter still." Published shortly after Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind and Hirsch's Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, Hitchens' New York Times piece drew references from a 1988 survey. Since the ensuing two decades have witnessed the explosive growth of the Internet and gadgets for every occasion, it is tempting to wonder about the cultural literacy of that former disappointing test-subject's teenage son. A professional philosopher at Vancouver's Capilano University for nearly three decades and the author of more than 20 books that range from sexual politics (Buddies: Meditations on Desire, On Kiddie Porn) to Canadian politics (Fantasy Government, Delgamuukw), Chicago-born Stan Persky has been studying the data. He cannot be labelled an optimist. Persky's latest work - which he calls a "jeremiad, as defined by the writer Brian Fawcett: as accurate a description as possible of the present situation" - expands his impressive range while remaining close to an ever-keen interest in the cultural landscape of the here and now. Page-wise, Reading the 21st Century is dedicated primarily to signifi
adam gutierrez

Children losing nostalgia from iPads - 0 views

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  • adam gutierrez on 11 Apr 14
     
    It's so sad to hear that children are more likely to forget about the good past times of reading their favorite novel. I think what's happening here is pretty clear. Because iPads have an immediate source of gratification it's almost like they're an oxy-moron. To read a book on an iPad is like drinking sprite and eating bananas on a roller coaster. It starts out fun, but then just ends up to be a big mess. If you want to read a book read one made from paper that has character. Not this soulless technical gear that is really just enfeebling us to be a mindless ill literate consumer zombie.
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