Digital Literacies for Writing in Social Media | DMLcentral - 1 views
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students need to gain experience actually participating in social media. The best way to understand the expectations of a particular medium is to participate in that medium and identify its genre expectations as they emerge.
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Keith Hamon on 02 Nov 11This is one reason why QEP encourages a more open, social approach to writing. We want to move beyond "writing for grading" (which, by law, must be kept private) to "writing for learning and communicating."
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Students need to think of their online data along the dimensions of: * accessibility* searchability* persistence
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Hmm … paper was so easy: everything was in my portable file folder. Now, I can't track where all my writing resides. New skills to be learned.
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As more and more of our writing makes its way into digital form -- and as the increasing use of biometrics and other forms of behavior monitoring turns our behaviors into volumes of data -- it will become increasingly important for writers to take steps to ensure the integrity of their private data.
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Privacy is always a consideration, but putting your journal under your mattress no longer works. So what does? We'd best learn. And soon.
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The question we are faced with, then, is this: how do we prepare our students to write effectively in environments that don't yet exist? While I'm sure there is more to add to this list, I suggest that there are three domains of literacy that, if students become aware of them, will prepare them for new digital writing environments. Namely, students should be aware of the speed of digital communications and the types of interactions that speed encourages, the ways in which digital writing environments preserve and provide access to data, and how writing technologies manage the divide between public and private.